In an ironic victory for biologists who hate (often with good reason) common names I have discovered that to see a quick reference photo of an ant I ought to use its proper binomial to avoid the AI spam in image search results.
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In an ironic victory for biologists who hate (often with good reason) common names I have discovered that to see a quick reference photo of an ant I ought to use its proper binomial to avoid the AI spam in image search results.
Using binomials protects you from those … for now.
We talk about verifying sources, but if I’m drawing an ant and just want to see a photo to get the size of the coxa right— I’m not exactly making a bibliography. This spam is truly pollution, but I adapt.
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In an ironic victory for biologists who hate (often with good reason) common names I have discovered that to see a quick reference photo of an ant I ought to use its proper binomial to avoid the AI spam in image search results.
Using binomials protects you from those … for now.
We talk about verifying sources, but if I’m drawing an ant and just want to see a photo to get the size of the coxa right— I’m not exactly making a bibliography. This spam is truly pollution, but I adapt.
@futurebird I hardly ever use image search anymore, but when I did, I mostly used the genus name (usually without the species name). This is known as "dino style". Unfortunately, in the era of automated garbage generation, it doesn't work with most famous extinct genera. : (
