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I find it hilarious that most people in this thread are complaining about being called a "something vegan", like I can understand not being happy with the current AI trend, but it seems like the word "vegan" is what makes everyone ticks, it's NOT an insult, the "normal" vegan are very happy to be called like that, because what it refers too is something that they agree and identify with. If you agree and identify yourself with what those journalist are calling "AI vegans", the name doesn't matter, embrace it, call yourself that to easily express what you believe about AI.

Vegan is not an insult, it is a compliment.

Dafuq Do they forgot to teach AI how to read two column text AGAIN?!

Did anyone let them know that reproduction harms the environment?

That's a weird way to spell luddite

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

The possibilities are infinite if you are a netaphor vegan.

"AI vegans"

ffs, just publish an article with a single clownemoji for the same effect.

It’s quite common for me to be annoyed, angry, or upset at a headline writer. Then there’s the feeling I got reading “Meet the AI vegans.”

Whole new level.

This is such a stupid name for this.

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

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.

"Have you ever been called an AI vegan?"

"No... Shit no! I believe saying something like that'd get your ass kicked!"

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

It's not cool to use "vegan" like this.

People just going about their business living their lives as they have for many years...

Silicon Valley: Hey fuck you. Also I came up with a dumb nickname for you.

i wonder if they came up with such term to mock those who dont want to use ai and possibly actual vegans on the side.

And here i am not using it because I'm old and cranky.

I'm choosing to abstain because it's shit. The ethical things are just a bonus. It produces inaccurate information and bland soulless images.

What bullshif us this?

A. I vegan is a nonesence title.

How about " people who don't want the world to end even faster tell corps to fuck off"

I refuse to use it because it's shit.

We are not the same.

I try not to use AI at all. I am not missing out on anything.

I don't use A.I. because I've had nothing but negative interactions with A.I. Customer service bots that fail to give adequate responses, unhelpful and incorrect search result summaries, and, "art," that looks like shit hasn't made me want to sign up for ChatGPT or Gemini. For most people, this isn't a moral stance, it's just that the product isn't worth paying for. Stop framing people that don't use A.I. as luddites with an ax to grind just because tech bros spent billions on a product that isn't good yet.