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		hatch_q on July 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BirdNet – Identify Birds by Sound Probably a good reason for this. A lot of images of plants are in hands of humans (just checked PlantNET db) - i guess ML is modeled to ignore humans.

stinos on July 23, 2021 [–]

That could be one aspect, but I was actually talking about taking pictures of complete persons. Usually turns out you're a beetle, or a worm, or a butterfly :)

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