I'm not surprised some schoolkid is using AI for their science project (?), but it's very weird that so many comments on a tech-focused site like this are engaging with this extremely obvious ChatGPTese at face value. Is the underlying idea even biologically plausible? The whole thing seems like a hallucination produced by an inferior model.
The medium article is also 404
The article link works, but it is nothing of substance, just a lot of very very short sentences talking about coral being good