New AI written climate denial paper making the rounds.
Hallucinating and plagiarizing garbage from Willie Soon of all people.
“Large language models do not have the ability to reason” – one expert said. In that regard, they have much in common with science deniers.
Climate change deniers are pushing an AI-generated paper questioning human-induced warming, leading experts to warn against the rise of research that is inherently flawed but marketed as neutral and scrupulously logical.
The paper rejects climate models on human-induced global warming and has been widely cited on social media as being the first “peer-reviewed” research led by artificial intelligence (AI) on the topic.
Titled “A Critical Reassessment of the Anthropogenic CO2-Global Warming Hypothesis,” it contains references contested by the scientific community, according to experts interviewed by AFP.
Computational and ethics researchers also cautioned against claims of neutrality in papers that use AI as an author.
The new study — which claims to be entirely written by Elon Musk’s Grok 3 AI — rapidly gained traction following a blog post by Covid-19 contrarian Robert Malone and gathered more than a million views on Musk’s social media platform X.
Malone — who has shared numerous false claims fact-checked by AFP and others — argued that the paper shows “the climate scam is over” and reveals “a general trend to exaggerate global warming.”
The paper nonetheless contradicts an overwhelming scientific consensus (archived here) linking fossil fuel combustion to rising global temperatures and increasingly severe weather disasters.
