Already discovered, overclaimed novelty
The site was published in a 2025 open-access paper; the agents and author failed the literature search, and claiming discovery without thorough prior-art review was premature.
Still a neat independent validation
Agents independently spotting a real site experts found shows the technique works and could find genuinely new sites, even if search was weak.
It's lidar, not AI, doing the work
Credit belongs to growing lidar coverage and data access; amateurs have found sites this way for years, and finding them is less valuable than interpreting them or protecting them from looters.