The town of Cochrane, Alberta, came within minutes of withdrawing from a national net-zero framework based on arguments from an AI-powered misinformation campaign uncovered by Canada's National Observer. A last-minute move by the mayor put the brakes on the decision — for now.

“This website I’m quoting from, I don’t know a whole lot about… but I just thought their words were better than mine.”— Alberta councillor, citing a website with an AI chatbot pushing towns to quit net-zero programs

  • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Next time I hear someone says AI chatbots could potentially help fight climate change, I’ll be able to show that today they actually aggravate climate change.

    The AI lies are one part of that.

    The other part is that the data centers powering these AI tools draw massive amounts of power and need massive amounts of water to keep them cool.