Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
inquiline@assemblag.es wrote:
"GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.
Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use"
https://www.animal-photo-references.com/(shared from bsky, seems like they should have a presence here but I don't seem them)