AI has been and continues to be used for these sorts of things. Generative AI like LLMs and image generators might be getting all the media attention and attract the techbros at the moment, but they are fundamentally inappropriate for this purpose, but other AI machine learning models are making advancements all the time.

Every tool has its use, as long as it's not being shoved everywhere for the sake of shareholders™

They've so far used AI to detect all the different parts of a particular whale species' language, like the different sounds and timing. Deciphering the meaning will be much harder since it's difficult to observe their behavior, but small land mammals should go much smoother.

There's a fun open source app called WhoBIRD that identifies birds by their calls in real time!

It's actually really impressive and a lot of fun identifying the local birds. This is a use of learning models I can totally get behind. :D

thats what a lot of AI is used for, just in different fields.