Artificial Alarmism
17 hours agoWillis Eschenbach111 Comments
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
Well, I was notified by my long-standing “Google Alert” that my name had appeared in a paper on the web. It was in a study called “Automated Fact-Checking of Climate Change Claims with Large Language Models“, available on Arxiv.
The main thrust of the paper is that actually checking the underlying science to see whether climate claims are verifiable or falsifiable is sooo last week … so they’ve built a custom Artificial Intelligence large-language-model to save them from having to, you know … actually think.
They’ve even given it a cute name, the “CLIMINATOR”, in all caps just like that. I kept waiting for it to say “I’ll be back!” in an Austrian accent … but I digress.
First they fed it all of the standard mainstream sources, like, you know, James Hansen, Michael Mann et al. ad nauseum. Then they added in the IPCC and the “NIPCC”, the Non-Governmental IPCC, established by Fred Singer in 2004 to provide an alternative to the IPCC.
Here’s what first caught my eye … they unleashed the Climinator on the following NIPCC statement:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/01/28/artificial-alarmism/
