Comment by Lerc

Going back earlier, a similar thing in 2017 was done.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/the-best-of/06-03-2018/the-mystery-...

Interestingly this was a task that could probably be done well enough by AI now.

Not that these guys knew how close to reality they turned out to be. I assume they just had no idea of the problem they were attempting and assumed that it was at the geotaging a photo end of the scale when it was at the 'is it a bird' end.

Maybe I'm being overly optimistic in assuming people who do this are honestly attempting to solve the problem and fudging it to buy time. In general they seem more deluded about their abilities than planning a con from start to finish.