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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Oliver Milman in Belém

AI is guzzling energy for slop content – could it be reimagined to help the climate?

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A billboard warning of the dangers of AI outside the Capitol in Washington. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Accountable Tech

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?

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