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Jul 16, 2021, 6 tweets

Recently, @simularity, a US-based geospatial #artificialintelligence company, published a report alleging fishermen's shits destroyed the #SouthChinaSea, based on chlorophyll a analysis.
Does its allegation hold the water? In fact, chlorophyll a is everywhere at sea.

To understand how chlorophyll a usually looks like in the sea, we start with @sentinel 2a satellite images.
Chlorophyll a can be seen everywhere on the sea surface, and chlorophyll a will accumulate around certain long-term suspended floating objects.

This phenomenon not only exists in the #SouthChinaSea, but can be seen everywhere in the world. As it's shown in the marine chlorophyll a distribution via Japan's Himawari satellite, the phenomenon also exists in the Philippine Sea and around the waters of the Philippines.

With such a strong reaction from @simularity, its motives are deeply doubted. Though @simularity claims its analysis does not contain any position, Simularity’s shareholder/investor Shatter Tech Venture Holdings actually has a close relationship with the Philippine government.

On April 14, 2021, in a move to pour fuel on the fire, Liz Derr, founder and CEO of @simularity, even suggested the Philippine government occupy key features in the #SCS, on an online forum, which is obviously against the DOC consensus.

So, is @simularity developing Artificial-Intelligence, or just ‘Artificial’ Information?

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