{"id":20873,"date":"2025-11-17T13:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/ai-is-guzzling-energy-for-slop-content-could-it-be-reimagined-to-help-the-climate\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:37:24","slug":"ai-is-guzzling-energy-for-slop-content-could-it-be-reimagined-to-help-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/ai-is-guzzling-energy-for-slop-content-could-it-be-reimagined-to-help-the-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is guzzling energy for slop content \u2013 could it be reimagined to help the climate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some experts think AI could be used to lower, rather than raise, planet-heating emissions \u2013 others aren\u2019t so convinced <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/cop30\">Cop30: click here for full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in Brazil<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Some AI advocates at a major UN climate summit are posing an alternative view, though \u2013 what if AI could help us solve, rather than worsen, the climate crisis?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/nov\/17\/ai-climate-crisis-cop30\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1bd20b2ca286178d3ada81c6fa78de0d77a069fe\/500_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ae3229621f548cb27748e49a9128272a\" title=\"AI is guzzling energy for slop content \u2013 could it be reimagined to help the climate?\" \/>Some experts think AI could be used to lower, rather than raise, planet-heating emissions \u2013 others aren\u2019t so convinced<br \/>\nCop30: click here for full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in Brazil<br \/>\nArtificial 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.<br \/>\nSome AI advocates at a major UN climate summit are posing an alternative view, though \u2013 what if AI could help us solve, rather than worsen, the climate crisis? Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some experts think AI could be used to lower, rather than raise, planet-heating emissions \u2013 others aren\u2019t so convinced Cop30: click here for full Guardian coverage of the climate talks in Brazil Artificial intelligence is often associated with ludicrous amounts of electricity, and therefore planet-heating emissions, expended to create nonsensical or misleading slop that is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/17\/ai-is-guzzling-energy-for-slop-content-could-it-be-reimagined-to-help-the-climate\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI is guzzling energy for slop content \u2013 could it be reimagined to help the climate?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20873"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}