Here’s why AI chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini etc) are unreliable for science content, and terrible as “just a starting point” for science communicators.
Unfortunately, this probably isn’t something AI chatbots get much better at… although sloppers will get better at hiding it!
Thanks so much to Dr @jordanbharrod for helping me with this 😊 This is adapted from my YT video on AI slop scicomm, which she also helped me with! Her work is an excellent resource for understanding AI hype.
Will post a proper article version of this soon!