The early days of AI bird photos on social media were absurd and easy to detect like that awful bald eagle regrowing its beak video or the snowy owls flying with owlets on their backs, or hummingbirds sheltering in flowers, but the new photos are much more insidious.
Personally I try to limit editing on any photo that I share on community science platforms- just minimal cropping or adjusting brightness. I do not use photoshop. These platforms are for capturing accurate accounts of the species- not showing off photography, though many photos are beautiful. I would recommend saving the editing for your own personal websites or non-science platforms.
Nurit
Encino, CA
From: <CALBIRDS...> <CALBIRDS...> On Behalf Of Larry Jordan via groups.io
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2026 2:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [CALBIRDS] artificial intelligence and photos of birds
I agree with Kurt. I'm sorry but I think if you have to use AI to enhance your bird photos, get a better camera or a better binocular or scope to ID your quarry. I like the idea of having a tag imbedded in all AI images so folks can appreciate the real world, not some computer image of what we think the perfect animal looks like, but what the real world looks like. [cid:<attach_0_18C5F5C5EBAA918B_1064739...>]
