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Cosmos is — or was — a popular science magazine published by the CSIRO,
Australia’s national science agency.
David Ho is an oceanographer at the University of Hawai’i.
Cosmos posted an
article about removing carbon from the oceans. Professor Ho was quite surprised
the article had a quote from him and a pile of stuff he didn’t actually think —
particularly when he hadn’t spoken to
Cosmos at all. The article read just
like AI slop.
The quote was lifted from a June article in the
Guardian, who did speak to Ho
— in a completely different context.
A different
Cosmos story by the same author, Melissa Cristina Márquez, on
the shellfish industry’s problems with oceans getting more acidic, had several
quotes, all lifted from other sources.
Ho finally heard back from
Cosmos’ “Engagement Manager” that
Cosmos had
taken both articles down and were “investigating.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
