aceAI is guzzling energy for slop content – could it be reimagined to help the climate?
Artificial intelligence is often associated with ludicrous amounts of electricity, and therefore planet-heating emissions, expended to create nonsensical or misleading slop that is of meagre value to humanity. Some AI advocates at a major UN climate summit are posing an alternative view, though – what if AI could help us solve, rather than worsen, the climate crisis? The “AI for good” argument has been made repeatedly at the Cop30 talks in Belém, Brazil, with supporters arguing AI can be used to lower, rather th…
Generative AI systems expend large amounts of electricity and associated planet-heating emissions to produce nonsensical or misleading slop content
Gain is presented as a hypothetical argument by advocates at Cop30, not as a measured outcome observed by publication date 2025-11-17
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- JournalismThe Guardian2025-11-17
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0103, v6: “AI is guzzling energy for slop content – could it be reimagined to help the climate?.” Truvace, 2026-07-13. /record/TRV-2026-0103 (accessed at citation time). sha256 a74388cef968876c…
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