I have mixed feelings about AI and iNat but ultimately I think contributing a photo of an uncommon and frankly. gorgeous animal is a good thing! Glad that you asked and I encourage you to always ask and ask a person! 😀👍

I think stuff like this is one of the use-cases where AI can actually be useful to point you in the right direction. We definitely need the humans though... the problem is that I don't have enough knowledge to recognize when the AI gets it wrong, and so I'm sure as hell not going to trust it.

And definitely didn't try touching it :) Almost always a bad idea when diving... if you don't damage yourself you'll probably damage whatever it was you just prodded.