LittleBitOfBreadNoCheese
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Just read this in the printed edition of April 15th.
"Smartphone apps that identify plants from photographs can be as little as 4% accurate, which could put people foraging for food at risk and also lead to endangered plants being mislabelled as weeds and eradicated"...
The apps they looked at were Google Lens, Leaf Snap, iNaturalist, Pl@ntNet, Seek and Plant Snap (I only have Obsidentify unfortunately).
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"Google declined a request for interview and the other app creators didn't respond."
Underlying article is at
doi.org/j479
"Smartphone apps that identify plants from photographs can be as little as 4% accurate, which could put people foraging for food at risk and also lead to endangered plants being mislabelled as weeds and eradicated"...
The apps they looked at were Google Lens, Leaf Snap, iNaturalist, Pl@ntNet, Seek and Plant Snap (I only have Obsidentify unfortunately).
..
"Google declined a request for interview and the other app creators didn't respond."
Underlying article is at
doi.org/j479