The Macaulay Library and eBird, community-driven citizen science projects, are facing a surge in AI-manipulated and AI-generated photos that threaten the scientific value of their archives, according …
A letter published in Nature warns that AI-generated images are contaminating citizen science platforms like iNaturalist, undermining their utility for biological recording. Scientists from Cornell an…
A commentary in Nature Ecology & Evolution warns that generative AI is polluting citizen-science records on platforms like iNaturalist, Macaulay Library, and WikiAves, with researchers finding several…
A bird photograph posted online from Brazil sparked scientific debate about species migration until investigators discovered an AI tool had altered the image, creating a false record of a North Americ…