Family Review problem
I tried "Family Review" today. Got a page of 1950 christening records from Puebla, Mexico.
First record on page went all right. The baptizer's signature was indexed as a separate person, and correct spelling not captured. I edited it to exactly match a separate blank where it was written out more clearly.
(question: in cases where the same person's name is written more than once on the same record, should I delete the extra occurrences and highlight them all fr the one occurrence, or leave them separate when using this tool?)
I got stuck on the second record on the page. The A.I. had identified the baptizer as the principal, and had not captured any part of the principal's name. I tried clicking the red "X" to indicate that the identification of the principal was wrong, but then I had to choose from a list of all names already identified in the image. There was no option "Not yet indexed" that would have allowed me to highlight and enter a new name.
(second aside: I notice that comments have been closed already on the thread "Exciting Changes Coming to FamilySearch Indexing". I still see serious problems with the A.I. generated indexes and the tools available to correct them. I would encourage FamilySearch to consider using the Indexing process again for new projects.)
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For your question, every instance if a name is reviewed. It could be that you have 3 instances of John Smith on a document, but the third instance is misspelled as Jhon Smyth. There is this thread that talks about about the same name. Our fantastic mod @Ashlee C. has noted the problem and set it to the developers. No word back yet.
https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/176175/why-does-the-ai-make-me-review-the-same-instance-of-the-same-name-in-a-document-mulitple-times?utm_source=community-search&utm_medium=organic-search&utm_term=every+name+reviewed
AI has been a mess. Since FS went full-time AI, there have been several posts on it. The latest issue was exactly what you experienced. To me, AI is not only unreliable, as a whole, but this specific AI was fast tracked. No real instructions and more bugs than a roach motel, leaving the reviewer with questions. I indexed for 10 years, made the move from desktop to web indexing, but have done very little with AI because of the issues with it.2 -
For sure! Whoever programed the computer did not seems to follow general indexing guidelines either, such a do not assume a surname from parents surnames, or expand abbreviated names, or calculate dates. etc. etc. So with no instructions, what do you do? Whatever you want! But we are not all going to want the same thing, Hello.
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Yes, this whole AI thing is a mess — my priority and that of most experienced indexers/reviewers is QUALITY not quantity —- I wonder how many programmers have ever actually indexed or even read the instructions on indexing —— I am thoroughly discouraged.
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To remove the priest or scribe or baptizer, start to edit that name. Then go down and select the "Remove Person" button. Don't try to edit that record into one that should be in the record. There is another place where, after editing everybody the program thinks should be in there, you can add somebody who is missing.
But I agree with all the comments above about AI. Rushed into use before it's ready and reliable. It does a mostly terrible job — misses a lot of names; gets most relationships wrong, can't read lots of simple Spanish. I don't think it's ready for the big time.0
