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by EGreg 1008 days ago
Probably because many people around the world participated in classifying what was posted?

I am guessing. Please tell me if that is correct. How do they prevent false labels ?

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Any observations can be submitted, but the observation has to be verified by a different observer. Most identifiers are folks with more experience identifying things locally, and the data quality is high. There's very little incentive to game the system and if something is misidentified other iNatters can also add identifications correcting mistakes which happens regularly - often various scientists/specialists tend to sweep observations in their taxa of note and correct issues. There's criteria for a "high quality" observation, including being verified. Only those observations that are high quality are used for training.
There are hundreds of thousands of "false' labels. Pictures can be classified many times.
I always wondered how do you determine truth in such sites?
You ask actual experts for identification