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AI-generated comments helped derail a plan to cut pollution from home appliances.

California regulators killed a proposal that would have imposed fees on gas-burning furnaces and water heaters that release smog-forming pollutants. More than 20,000 comments they received opposing the proposal were generated by a single AI platform, some addressed from people with no idea their names had been used.

Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments

[Los Angeles Times]

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