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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/users/tante/statuses/114732092941600871">tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Jun-2025 20:46:03 JST</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante" title="tante@tldr.nettime.org"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/84398-48-20260417155420.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="tante" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">tante</a></section><article><p>"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."</p><p>(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage) </p><p> <a href="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/5244484#notice-10291444">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-06-23T20:46:03+09:00" title="Monday, 23-Jun-2025 20:46:03 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114732092941600871" rel="external" title="Sent from tldr.nettime.org via ActivityPub">tldr.nettime.org</a></span></span><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114732092941600871">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: pivot-to-ai.com</div><h5><a href="https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/">Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage</a></h5><div></div></header><div>iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Monday, 23-Jun-2025 20:46:03 JST tante
"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/
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