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AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 month ago by Zaelaa@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Denixen@feddit.nu 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I have used crowd collected data for research. You have to curate each picture carefully and cannot trust labels, there are many erroneous identifications.

Maybe if you have access to pre-curated you can trust it a bit, but if you are a researcher and use images from these websites without curation you are already doing it wrong...

AI altered images doesn't change things too much, it probably just increases the numbers of errors that already existed...

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

I'd argue that AI does change things:

on one hand it increases the percentage of invalid/unusable images. A mis-labeled image is still potentially useful, an image of a toucan in the Arctic isn't. This means that even large datasets become largely unusable because of the volume of fake images.
on the other hand any AI picture that slips through, taints the dataset and results in expensive manual cleanup to ensure data is reliable.

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