Rob: This is like mailing people notes about endangered species on parchment made of rhino skin

This is like mailing people notes about endangered species on parchment made of rhino skin

The Washington Post made an AI chatbot for questions about climate - https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/9/24194486/the-washington-post-climate-answers-ai-chatbot

The Washington Post made an AI chatbot for questions about climatewww.theverge.com Have a chat about climate change.

There's a feedback form for telling them that, just sayin' bsky.app/profile/jost...

I just went and told them how much they suck: thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/climat...

Climate tool survey - Formstackthewashingtonpost.formstack.com

oh my god

I need this AI bubble to burst ASAP

seriously

They could've had an "ask a scientist" space on their website for reader submitted questions instead. I assume this is advertising for Bezos' LLM investments because I'm not sure what other purpose it's supposed to serve.

There is one AI chatbot I'm okay with on climate - this one, that you can constrain to answer ONLY from the IPCC reports. www.chatclimate.ai

ChatClimatewww.chatclimate.ai ChatClimate – grounded on the latest IPCC Report. We make Climate Risk understandable and climate information more accessible to the broader communities.

Like a library I’m a member of sending me snail mail inviting me to join the library. Yes, my name is Current Resident.