GitHub - tphakala/birdnet-go: Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife. Multi-model local AI inference, runs 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi.
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Self-hosted realtime soundscape analyser for birds, bats and other wildlife. Multi-model local AI inference, runs 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi. - tphakala/birdnet-go

Birdnet-go is a real-time sound analyzer that detects bird species. It can take in audio from microphones. I set mine up to stream audio from my security cameras that I already had installed. There’s even a Home Assistant App, if you’re using it.

I live in a more suburban/semi-urban environment, but was really surprised to so many different bird species.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
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      29 days ago

      It’s an AI program specifically to use AI models to recognise birds. If you’re against AI you should probably learn to recognise them manually.

      • Yaky@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        29 days ago

        “AI” is a pretty bad blanket term. BirdNet / Merlin is a model trained specifically on bird calls (and some noises) built to recognize bird calls. App and logo use huge general-purpose models to create content of questionable quality.

        And yes, a decent birder should never trust just Merlin ID.

        • tko@tkohhh.socialEnglish
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          27 days ago

          Yup… HUGE difference between human curated machine learning and generative AI. AI sure is a buzzword these days, which is why it gets used in marketing, but I think doing so is confusing people who don’t know enough to distinguish between the different flavors of “AI”.

    • DisasterTransport@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      29 days ago

      The maintainer of the project probably won’t see it here, but that repo does appear to be fairly active, they’ve got thousands of merged PRs. If you contribute a better logo they might replace the AI one.

    • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Totally agree, I threw a quick filter on some public domain, actual human artwork, and cropped it square. Took me as long as it would have taken to generate that slop logo.

      Here’s the original source: Citation

      For the love of anything even mildly good or wholesome…enough of the fucking AI slop images!

    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
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      29 days ago

      Xale, the logo is pretty, on topic and quite cute. Is it made with AI? No idea. Does it really matter?

      Give open source projects a break will you?

      If you don’t like the logo just say so.

        • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
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          29 days ago

          I still like it and i have seen projects with much uglier logos made by humans. Nothing against humans or AI either.

          • call_me_xale@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            28 days ago

            An ugly logo made by a human wasn’t made by stealing from artists and disproportionately contributing to a climate crisis.

            eta a qualifier I had assumed would be unnecessary…

            • drkt@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
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              29 days ago

              and contributing to a climate crisis.

              Unless you want to argue that simply being alive is contributing to the climate crisis, I sure hope you don’t eat meat.