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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

www.theguardian.com

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Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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Meet the AI vegans | Arwa Mahdawi
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They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi
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    Im also a gun vegan, a car vegan, a facebook vegan, an exercise vegan (unfortunately), a windows vegan, … just not actual vegan.

    I feel like thats a bad way to use the word vegan.

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    “Newspaper which uses AI to write its articles concocts derogatory term for people who doesn’t use AI”

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    This makes about as much sense as calling Linux users “Windows vegans”.

    Choosing to not use AI isn’t some wacky contrarian position, it’s a tame position that can easily be justified. (Don’t want to use AI? Then don’t.) If anything, trying to assert that constantly using AI for everything would be the new normal is the wacky position.

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    how to belittle and minimize a very serious thing: call any protesters of it a " ___ vegan"

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    “refuse” lol as if there were a general requirement to use this shit

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    We don’t need to invent new terms, like ‘AI Vegan’, when we have a perfectly good term already: Butlerian Jihadist.

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    Abstaining from a thing does not make one a vegan. That’s not how any of this works.

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      I’m sex vegan. Cry about it virgins

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        It only counts when it’s voluntary, tho.

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        I’m a sex vegetarian gotta be a bit open

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      It’s like how they put the word gate after something to say that it is a scandal involving the former word.

      Somesort of political scandal involving road maintenance? Oh yes well that’s roadgate then. Even though the Watergate scandal was in fact it scandal in the watergate hotel, rather than a scandal about water.

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      Awe so the article author has a vendetta against vegans got it.

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      But it makes people come off as extremely annoying. So that’s working.

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      I mean, abstaining from animal products makes someone a vegan, right? If you abstain from AI products then it would follow that you’re an “AI vegan”.

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    The better term would be “LLM gobbling fuckheads” for those who use that stuff and believe it has anything to do with “AI”

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    “AI vegans”? I knew guardian was already bought by tech bros, but wtf is that phrasing lmao I dont use AI either, simply because it is wrong more often than not and I am still capable of googling myself, but being cautious equals to being vegan in tech bro eyes?

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    Missed opportunity to coin the term “Aitheist” Fools.

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    I hate the term AI vegan. I prefer mistechnitinoimosyne. More classy.

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    Calling them after a maligned (if harmless) group seems like a choice to paint refusing to use AI as being annoying, preachy and scorn-worthy.

    They seem very determined to pressure people into using AI regardless of it’s practicality, environmental impact, or anything. Fuck this shit.

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      There’s been recent pushes in that regard, investment in AI shit has been enormous but the financial payoff for anyone besides hardware manufacturers remains nonexistent. So investors and corporations have recently redoubled their efforts into trying to get everyone to use it in the hopes that this somehow will make them profitable.

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      yeah, this is 1000% deliberate manufacturing consent

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    • Teetotalers: alcohol vegans.
    • Straight edgers: drug vegans.
    • Recycling: waste vegans.
    • Solar power: power vegans.

    The possibilities are infinite if you are a netaphor vegan.

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      Carnivores: vegetable vegans.

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        And jus lik that we come full circle 😂

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        Brilliant lol

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        This works so well specially for those people that refuse to touch anything “not cooked” in their plate or that is green.

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      • Working class: retirement vegan
      • American: healthcare vegan
      • German: humour vegan

      My god, it’s unstoppable

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        • Republican: democracy vegan, justice vegan, decency vegan, consent vegan
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          Not trafficking children vegan

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            Age of majority vegan

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        I love your profile image. I should reread Rice Boy.

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          High five, fuck yes. Cool person detected. I think you’re the first one to spot it, too.

          I wish I had that series in print. Might be time to look into that

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            Ooh, print would be amazing. $30 for the softcover, wonder about shipping though…
            I have to believe you’re underestimating how recognizable TOE is.

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              It’s a hard one to gauge for me. I’m pretty sure I found it via stumbleupon back when that was really great. I read the whole thing in close to one go, and I never hear anyone else talk about it.

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                stumbleupon, wow… That takes me back.

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        On this blessed day, we are all truly vegans.

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      • Amish: techno vegans
      • Mennonite: techno vegetarians
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        I interpreted that as techno, as in the genre, for too long.

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      Incels: sexual vegans

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        I keep trying to eat meat but it just won’t cooperate!

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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men

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      It’s like taking the last syllable of the name of the hotel and tacking it onto every scandal, because you didn’t understand that it’s part of the name of a hotel, and not some sort of indicator of scandal.

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        The worst was the Col scandal.

        (Sorry. So sorry)

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          Please see yourself out

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      Recycling: waste vegans.

      The Germans are probably upset with this comparison

      What for a nonsense. Do these other countries not sort their waste or what? Do they not know about efficiency? Next thing you’re going to tell me they don’t sort their white, green and brown glass separately.

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      netaphor vegan

      Found an autocorrect vegan!

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        In my most upvoted comment. I’m hating that typo so much.

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        Freeze! Vegan police!

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          Chicken’s not vegan?

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      • Cyclists: transport vegans
      • Hippies: war vegans
      • Vegans: food vegans
      • Lemmy users: social media vegans
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      You’re hereby invited to /c/vegan, as you appear to be a Northern Hemisphere vegan.

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      I mean “Straight edgers” is on the same level already

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    I don’t use ai either. But because it’s fuckin stupid. It’s not even ai. It’s a glorified sorting algorithm.

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    Journalists constantly trying to be the origin of a term.

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