The Texas Public Policy Foundation used AI to push a misleading story about renewable energy—a practice that could soon become widespread.
; Rep. Lauren Boebert later tweeted about the image.
Why should we care about some random right-wing newsletter slapping up an AI-generated image? For starters, TPPF is a big player in the right-wing think tank space. There’s no denying that the group is incredibly influential: some of the dominant current climate and energy narratives among the right, including the war on ESG, originated with or were perpetuated by TPPF and its fossil fuel donors. TPPF even gotWhat’s isolated to denier newsletters today may become viral images tomorrow.
“There is already a massive resurgence of old-school climate denier content, alongside early signs of a worrying trend of that having an impact on public views,” Joshi told me in a Twitter DM . “AI tools that are designed to create convincing-sounding lies with no references or factual basis, along with image tools that can create vaguely convincing images in seconds without risking any copyright issues, are a boon to deniers.”Free AI image generation can only go so far, at least for now. Still, the proliferation and perfection of tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT can only help bad information spread.
“One thing that’s worth noting is that [AI] probably can’t fabricate charts or data, which is a big part of denier content,” Joshi said. “I think this won’t be used to create ‘fake news’ type things; i.e., they won’t easily able to fabricate, say, a picture of a bird colliding with a turbine. But it just pushes the cost of creating disinformation one big notch downwards.”
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