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AI’s Carbon Footprint: How AI is Killing Climate Goals

Dec 5, 2024 | proofnews.org | Aaron Gordon |Emily Dugdale |Rina Palta |Rafael Olavarria

The big tech companies treat their climate footprint like shoppers with unlimited budgets. Companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft are using more and more energy while using their massive profits to buy clean energy credits to “cancel” it out. This allows for claims that such companies are carbon neutral, even though the companies themselves know this isn’t how emissions from electricity actually work. In reality, there are tradeoffs between electricity consumption and climate impact.
AI’s Power Grab: How AI is Hogging the Electric Grid

Dec 4, 2024 | proofnews.org | Aaron Gordon |Emily Dugdale |Rina Palta |Rafael Olavarria

Tech companies like to present themselves as some of the most climate-friendly corporations in the world. And in some ways, this is actually true. Amazon, Meta and Google were three of the top four corporate buyers of clean energy purchase agreements in 2023. They’d like you to think this cancels out their own electricity usage.
How Proof is Reframing "Objectivity" in Journalism

Nov 14, 2024 | proofnews.org | Emily Dugdale |Rina Palta |Rafael Olavarria |Julia Angwin

At Proof News, we still believe in producing journalism that strives for objectivity—but to us, objectivity is more about the process than the product. Editor and Publisher covered our recent projects and how we use rigorous reporting and a more scientific process to produce the most unbiased, transparent work we can. Read the article here.
What’s Up With ChatGPT? The AI chatbot didn’t debunk known election misinformation

Nov 8, 2024 | proofnews.org | Emily Dugdale |Rina Palta |Rafael Olavarria |Julia Angwin

In the days leading up to the election, false rumors of truckloads of fake ballots, faulty voting machines, and ineligible voters swirled online. Most of the leading AI chatbots rejected or debunked the rumors – except one: ChatGPT. Proof News presented examples of debunked election misinformation to five leading consumer facing AI products – Google Search powered by Gemini AI, the free version of ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot through Bing, Meta AI on WhatsApp, and Perplexity.ai.
AI Models Falter Answering Election Questions in Spanish

Oct 30, 2024 | proofnews.org | Emily Dugdale |Rina Palta |Rafael Olavarria |Julia Angwin

If you ask Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, about voter fraud in English, it starts off by correctly telling you that such fraud is “incredibly rare,” and gives you a list of topics that are “more productive to consider,” like voter suppression.
Don’t Ask AI Which Rocks You Can Lick

Sep 27, 2024 | proofnews.org | Julia Angwin |Emily Dugdale |Aaron Mendelson |Annie Gilbertson

“What rocks can I lick?” is apparently a question geologists like Cate Larsen often get. Her answer? Probably don’t lick any rocks, or minerals for that matter. “The only mineral you can and definitely should lick is halite, rock salt,” she said. AI models, however, have their own strange ideas about when to put tongue to stone. Larsen, also known as TikTok's Groovy Geologist, used Proof’s AI testing software to run that question, and other mineral-related inquiries, through five leading AI models.
AI Models Provide Inaccurate Information to Voters with Disabilities

Sep 16, 2024 | proofnews.org | Emily Dugdale |Aaron Mendelson |Julia Angwin |Annie Gilbertson

Broken website links. Incorrect information about curbside voting and mail-in-ballots. Suggesting organizations that don’t exist. AI models are frequently putting out false and inaccurate information that could dissuade voters with disabilities from voting, according to new research from the Center for Democracy and Technology using an AI model comparison tool created by Proof News.
AI Models Generate Misinformation about Presidential Candidates

Sep 3, 2024 | proofnews.org | Aaron Mendelson |Julia Angwin |Annie Gilbertson |Rina Palta

Earlier this month, Vice President Kamala Harris made history when she accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, becoming the first Black and South Asian woman to top a major party presidential ticket. When Harris became the likely nominee, in late July, misinformation and disinformation about her immediately began spreading online. Much of it has circulated for years, and been thoroughly debunked.
Will AI Replace Software Engineers?

Aug 15, 2024 | proofnews.org | Julia Angwin |Annie Gilbertson |Rina Palta

How good is AI at software coding? Carl Brown, founder of the YouTube channel Internet of Bugs, has made a name for himself by holding AI claims up to scrutiny. So we asked the physicist and software developer to help us assess how good AI is at coding tasks. Using our AI testing software, which simultaneously queries five leading AI models, Brown asked the models coding questions.
Is AI Going to Replace Software Engineers?

Aug 14, 2024 | proofnews.org | Julia Angwin |Annie Gilbertson |Rina Palta |Alex Reisner

How good is AI at software coding? Carl Brown, founder of the YouTube channel Internet of Bugs, has made a name for himself by holding AI claims up to scrutiny. So we asked the physicist and software developer to help us assess how good AI is at coding tasks. Using our AI testing software, which simultaneously queries five leading AI models, Brown asked the models coding questions.