I’m going to have to delete my iNaturalist account because it’s apparently planning to become like every other junk social media on The Internet of Fakes by taking Google AI money

Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage Pivot to AI Jun 19, 2025 That is, the volunteers would work for free to improve Google’s bot. This plan didn’t go down so well. It turns out people do free work for knowledge because they hold principles and stuff. Many deleted their accounts — which also deletes their observations from iNaturalist — because they didn’t volunteer to feed a lying slop machine that’s an environmental disaster.

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