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by mistrial9 448 days ago
> it'll probably do better than the average OSM contributor

let us reconsider this statement, please. An unexpected and powerful effect of the Openstreetmap project is iterated convergence on ground truth. No person is perfect in contribution, and few people are consistently terrible. Revision and updates, common vision towards accuracy, an appreciation of cooperative contributions.. have astounded the public and humbled critics repeatedly. Not because every key stroke and mouse click is perfect, but because iteration and plural sources have converged in a usable system of software and data.

AI inputs to Openstreetmap are not new, as noted in other comments. The path forward is bright, useful to humans and participatory in the Openstreetmap project.