“In the end, the story of climate change was one of hope and redemption”: ChatGPT’s narrative on global warming

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AI chatbots such as ChatGPT help people produce texts. According to media reporting, these texts are also used for educational purposes. Thus, AI influences people’s knowledge and perception of current issues. This paper examines the narrative of ChatGPT's stories on climate change. Our explorative analysis reveals that ChatGPT’s stories on climate change show a relatively uniform structure and similar content. Generally, the narrative is in line with scientific knowledge on climate change; the stories convey no significant misinformation. However, specific topics in current debates on global warming are conspicuously missing. According to the ChatGPT narrative, humans as a species are responsible for climate change and specific economic activities or actors associated with carbon emissions play no role. Analogously, the social structuration of vulnerability to climate impacts and issues of climate justice are hardly addressed. ChatGPT’s narrative consists of de-politicized stories that are highly optimistic about technological progress.

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Sommer, B., & von Querfurth, S. (2024). “In the end, the story of climate change was one of hope and redemption”: ChatGPT’s narrative on global warming. Ambio, 53(7), 951–959. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-01997-7

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