[madpen]

Within the context of iNaturalist. Anyhow, cheers to the iNaturalist team, the work they do and their Seek app. It’s one of the only apps I recommend friends to give to their children to explore, appreciate, and learn about the natural world around them. I just hope they stay relevant in the ChatGPT world. TBH I often use a combination of the two when trying to ID something out in the wild, and ChatGPT many times does a better job.

[Helmut10001]

> Within the context of iNaturalist.

No, he/she meas everywhere:

> Note that by 'first known' I'm referring to the first known photographs of a species anywhere, not just the first photographs to be submitted to iNaturalist.

[Nition]

No, it's confusing but as far as I can tell what they're saying there is that if a species was ever photographed anywhere before, outside of iNaturalist, that species can't be part of the project at all. It's a page for people on iNaturalist who have captured the first known photo of a species.

[devb]

> but as far as I can tell

Did you actually look at the details? It's literally in rule #1:

> 1 . Any observations you add must be the first photograph(s) of that species anywhere. If an observation is the first one for that species to be uploaded to iNat, but other photos of that species from an earlier point in time already exist anywhere elsewhere online/in print, then that observation should not be added to the project. This is the biggest source of observations that I have to remove from the project. So your observation must be both the first photograph of that species on iNat and also the first anywhere.

[Nition]

I did, but isn't that rule saying exactly the same thing as I said above, just in different words?

[Nition]

I just realized on re-reading your comment that you are actually agreeing with my main point (but it's too late to edit my other comment), you're just saying that I wasn't confident enough in stating it.

I was just trying to be polite with the "as far as I can tell", really. Of course I did look at the details, otherwise I wouldn't know them.

[specproc]

Big, big love for iNat. Up there with Wikipedia as an Internet treasure.

Spring is coming on here and it's getting a lot of use in our house! Don't even have kids.

I'd defend it over ChatGPT if you're prepared to wait. So many knowledgeable people using it. A classic example of the best way to get a correct answer being to post a wrong one!

[kelseydh]

What steps do you recommend for IDing a weird bug or slug you find in the wild? Do you just upload a photo to chatgpt? What's the equivalent with iNaturalist?