Cofounder of #iNaturalist says...
"...I do not advise stopping your use of iNat, and I definitely don’t advise deleting your account. I’m certainly not doing either. I was appalled at the number of people who went nuclear and deleted their accounts during the gen AI debacle.....destroying existing data that can’t be retrieved hurts everyone."
I concur. Please do not take important data away from those of us who value it.
https://kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06/why-i-left-inat
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