Artificial intelligence has fuelled a “significant” surge in objections to some of Scotland’s biggest planning applications and prompted the Scottish Government to stop accepting public responses by email.
The rules for consultations on major energy projects were changed in January after an increase in the use of AI in submissions, a freedom of information response to The Ferret shows.
The Energy Consents Unit (ECU) – the team within the Scottish Government which handles applications for projects such as wind farms and pylon lines – now only accepts objections from the public through its own online portal or by post.
The change was made following what the ECU described in internal correspondence as a “significant rise in the use of AI in emailed representations”, each of which had to be “processed manually with no verification of sender identity”. https://www.theferret.scot/ai-ban-emailed-objections-energy-projects/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTfGxhwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6jLz-9pj-TLken-gRiguHqav6dkOJSxxnz3huRWSwQAR3NgFoJYN0xGIHpgg_aem_6OfL1ETCa1NBOpUCQN_acQ
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