The San Joaquin kit fox has been struggling for decades.
Ah yes, "struggling."
I.e., polite-speak for "humans have been destroying its habitat, messing with its ability to survive, and making life miserable for it for a long time."
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Yeah, like with pretty much every endangered animal - we either hunted it down or took away their habitat
That's exactly what the article is about.
A large coal mine isn't compatible with wildlife, but solar farms, if planned correctly and with the right circumstances, can be.
And that's a good thing
foxes are cute, but the article reads like it was hallucinated. whats with the random bold text?
I think you're probably right. Phrasing like "Not just infrastructure—but a habitat." (with an em dash) and a few other similar sentences sound like the output of an LLM. Coupled with the whole article being repetitive and waffly, without giving much detail, and it does sound like someone took a paragraph of information and had an LLM blow it up to article length. Still, it's good to hear about positive outcomes like this.
I don't think it was... to me it's just someones weird prose and wanting to highlight what they think are the important bits.
You are right in the sense that it looks like the author is a real person, because they appear to have linked a linkedin profile (I say appear because right now I cannot access my linkedin account to veryfy it).
Nevertheless, if you copy-paste the text in this AI detector it says that it is 100% AI generated.
I think you're right, probably a summary generated from a press brief.
I also found the final report and it says there's no significance difference between solar and non-solar sites.
RESPONSE OF SAN JOAQUIN KIT FOXES TO TOPAZ SOLAR FARMS: IMPLICATIONS FOR CONSERVATION OF KIT FOXES
I wanna visit that place
sounds like good news, but holy slop, that shit is unbearable to read