We're not in a movie. Climate change isn't going be solved by one brilliant scientist. It's not even a scientific/technology problem at this point, it's a political one.
We've been used to having access to websites instantly, but you can't scale forever. Servers have a real impact on the environment. We're already using a significant proportion of the world's electricity on running servers.
Most of us are not scientists or have a good handle on the latest climate research. We have to trust in what scientists tell us that climate change is real and is something we need to worry about. In that sense, acceptance of science relies on people's beliefs.
This kind of research is just trying to measure the nature of people's climate opinions, which people tend to think of in terms of their beliefs.
Maybe I don't understand Substack that well, but it seems like its market share would be extremely vulnerable. It's just a way to provide a newsletter (also published on the web) and accept subscriptions (and presumably they take a cut). It's really easy for someone to set this up themselves even with minimal tech skills. If they already have a following on Substack, they just tell their subscribers to move, and potentially could even import the subscriber list to a new platform. It's not like social media where there's a lot of boosting or whatever from others on the platform, so the switching costs are high.
So unless I'm missing something, I hope people who don't want Nazis around just move somewhere else. Because from the sounds of this article, they're not really doing much about the Nazis.
The research suggests it will be quite hard to remove in practice. Probably needs to be tested more in the wild though.
And it doesn't have to be voluntary. But even if it is, the main AI companies may want to start doing it anyway. Training their models on ai generated text can lead to model collapse, so they will want a way to avoid that.
Yeah, this is one of the many things that annoys me about AI discourse.
"We can use it to solve climate change!"
We already technically know how to solve climate change, but politics makes doing that impossible.
And, no, AI can't "fix" politics. We're going to have to figure that out by ourselves.