Did you know that dragging your Organism-photo to Google Images may give you an ID?
Why have Citizen Science if it works? It does and it doesn’t.
I tend to use Google so this might not work in your own fancy Browser.
Open Google Images and look for anything. Grab your image and drop it into the space
The result
Of course, it isn’t actually Musca domestica but who cares?
It’s time consuming but can be entertaining - I’d be interested in your anecdotes (but I may be the only one)
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AI is used extensively in iNaturalist (heard off it?) You add the images much as you do here and up will come suggestions, Some people even accept them. Later, at night, under the cover of darkness, AI trawls the whole iNat Database and extracts all the new Likely IDs (called Research Grade there) and drops them into the GBIF Portal as Records.
Look - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/ai-plant-and-animal-identification-helps-us-all-be-citizen-scientists-180963525/
And if you have a few more minutes…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlxuQ7tPgQ&feature=youtu.be