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Spotting climate misinformation with AI requires expertly trained models

Meta's Llama and Google’s Gemini lag behind proprietary ones in the task

Illustration of a hand holding a smartphone engulfed in flames, symbolizing the spread of climate misinformation.

Organizations that want to counter climate misinformation with AI need to bring in experts to guide training of the models, a new study suggests.

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By Ananya

Conversational AI chatbots are making climate misinformation sound more credible, making it harder to distinguish falsehoods from real science.