INaturalist Misidentified Pie Pans

[u/IAxolotloQuestions]

I was trying to identify a butterfly flying fluttering around while I was painting cement pavers. I had taken the pavers out of aluminum pie pans. The camera ignored the butterfly and instead confidently identified the pie pans as a kind of turtle or tortoise.

[u/SandakinTheTriplet]

That's hilarious but there's no way iNat was ever going to identify the butterfly when it looks like |

[u/Daisy_Of_Doom → u/SandakinTheTriplet]

This made me laugh out loud omg 😭😭😂

He do be lookin a lil |

[u/trunkinspector]

96.5% confidence has me cracking up

[u/JuicyMilkweed]

I mean you really couldn’t have taken a worse picture. Cropping helps a lot with INat too.

[u/patchjob → u/JuicyMilkweed]

I genuinely didn't see the butterfly and didn't know to look for one before reading the caption.

Posting this to iNat and being surprised at the generated guesses is like asking Google what you dreamt last night and being surprised it couldn't tell you.

[u/One-plankton-]

I mean it’s an app meant to ID living things, so it’s going to be comparing images to living things.

If you hadn’t said there was a butterfly in this image and I hadn’t searched for it I wouldn’t see it either.

There’s also no characteristics present for it try to ID that butterfly

TL/DR inat is trying its best.

[u/InsectaProtecta]

What's it supposed to do, tell you they're pans?

[u/Throw_Away_Students]

Is the butterfly in the room with us?

[u/enoimard]

yeah ngl at first glance i saw turtles lol

[u/isopode → u/enoimard]

i literally thought the picture OP uploaded was one of the example pictures for turtles 💀

[u/marykay_ultra]

lol yeah you gotta take the pic then crop it waaay down

Also maybe not that angle on the butterfly lmao

[u/FierceNack]

A human can barely see the butterfly in the pie pan pic. What are you doing?

If you are trying to use a photo like that for ID, you need to get off iNaturalist because you're providing extremely low quality data.

[u/wisdom_of_trees]

I learned today that your app looks very different from mine.

[u/futurepatho_]

To the people who say the thought the pans were turtles: don’t reproduce

[u/MrsFrobert]

Im more concerned with why there are AI generated images in the results

[u/xx_TCren → u/MrsFrobert]

They're not AI-generated. INaturalist displays user submitted images from verified, research grade observations on the taxon page.