For a decade and a half now, my work has fallen into two categories: collecting evidence on the threat posed by fossil fuels, and deploying written and spoken words to urge action against it. Recently, generative AI systems have entered both of these spheres at a pace I struggle to process. In the ugly process of sense-making around what is a significant change in how we enact analysis and write words, there has been an exhausting debate around whether generative machine learning “works” or “