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Re:Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models by SamBam on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:02PM (#24945667)
Unsure. That maybe sounds like the Google Lens standalone app from a couple years ago. The Google Lens mode with the stock camera app never shows me anything to buy. ....actually, I just pointed it my rollerball pen, and it identified the pen correctly and then showed me a link to the pen on Alibaba. But I think that was just the image it was matching. It never does that for natural objects.
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Re:Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models by kazinator on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:10PM (#24945732)
That explains it; it is the Google Lens app I used. Or does it?

However, if you go to the Google Store page for it, it does tout this feature:

"IDENTIFY PLANTS & ANIMALS Find out what that plant is in your friend's apartment, or what kind of dog you saw in the park."

I have the current version, which was updated on August 13, 2020.

I will give it another spin, and also look for the lens mode in the camera app. (My phone is from Google, so the camera is the Google one; if any Android camera app has a Google Lens mode, it should be that one.)

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