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Here's a point I made on my iNaturalist profile bio:

Google jumped into action when Mango Mussolini told them to change the name to "Gulf of America".

Recently, the American Ornithological Society has started renaming birds with eponymous English names to names that are more descriptive of the animal or place. So, if Orange Julius decides this is "woke", will Google comply if he tells them to revert to the English names? What will that mean for iNatualist's database and image recognition algorithm when someone searches for a bird or uploads a bird pic for ID?

Any science-minded project should run fast and run far from any partnership of any sort with the words "Google" and "AI" in the name.

#iNaturalist #enshittification