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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Yeah... It's just abstaining from something. Veganism didn't invent that. Dumb headline
I hate the term AI vegan. I prefer mistechnitinoimosyne. More classy.
"Newspaper which uses AI to write its articles concocts derogatory term for people who doesn't use AI"
Wow, thank you so much for sharing this. What a major blow to the Guardian's credibility
Imo vegan shouldn't be seen as derogatory. I'm not one, but got a lot of respect for most of em.
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There has to be a catchier name than AI vegans...
Yes, it sounds like marginalizing normal reasonable people.
Also too ambiguous of a term, could also mean an ai chatbot that pretends to be a vegan person.
yeah, lol. that's what i thought it meant when I first read the post
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.
Imagine thinking that veganism is "wacky".
Not eating animals is not a wacky contrarian position either, and I'm not even vegan
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People who use the term "vegan" for somebody they consider extremist, ascetic, or annoying are really telling on themselves.
Side note: one of the most genius rebrands of all time was the way fake leather (which is often made from polyurethane, a type of plastic) suddenly became aspirational “vegan leather”.
Most vegan leathers are made from compostable materials, because (surprise, surprise!) many vegans are also environmentalists.
ha so I'm a double vegan
The better term would be "LLM gobbling fuckheads" for those who use that stuff and believe it has anything to do with "AI"
Journalists constantly trying to be the origin of a term.
We don't need to invent new terms, like 'AI Vegan', when we have a perfectly good term already: Butlerian Jihadist.
"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?
I don't agree with the framing, either, but they're drawing parallels between people not using something due to a principled moral stance. (As well as some not-so-subtle implication that these people are holier-than-thou, too.)
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No an Image generation is not ten times the impact pf a Google search, a ChatGPT query is. Image generation is probably a lot more.
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