The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a new game out on mobile today. Yay! Players in the game learn to identify different sea creatures, and their identifications are used to train AI. Uhhh... But hang on. Images are sourced from MBARI dives and also sent in by other scientists. So there's no image scraping/theft involved. The AI will be used to help the process of identifying sea creatures from the many thousands of images collected on those dives. Plus with a game like this there's no need for moderation, so no mods will have been harmed by poor labour practices. And I would guess that the environmental impact of running this would be relatively low - certainly not on the vast scale of something like OpenAI.
If there's a relatively good use of AI it'll be for something like this.
The game itself is pretty chill. Players undergo some training to learn to ID diffferent types of critters before starting to sort through a variety of images. There's nice music to listen to. More info here:
