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"Newspaper which uses AI to write its articles concocts derogatory term for people who doesn't use AI"

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.

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.

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

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

The possibilities are infinite if you are a netaphor vegan.

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.

This is such a stupid name for this.

"AI vegans"

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

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

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

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.

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.

"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 refuse to use it because it's shit.

We are not the same.

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

We let environmentalism become an individual issue, and that was a mistake. Can we not do this for AI? It's a society-wide problem, not something you can solve by measuring your own personal AI footprint.

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

"Have you ever been called an AI vegan?"

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

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

This is the dumbest shit I've ever read. Refusing to submit to corpo ratfuckery isn't a lifestyle choice. It's common sense.

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.

Journalists constantly trying to be the origin of a term.

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.

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.

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"

Missed opportunity to coin the term “Aitheist” Fools.

I don't use it because I have no trust in it.

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

I applaud folks like this - they make a choice and stick with it. No "I'll never use AI to generate art but I vibe code to save time" hypocrisy. No "I use it to help me with maths, but I'd never use it to steal artistic work".

Just straight up "it is an environmental hazard, it is unethical, not engaging". Should be called "AI Ethicists" rather than "AI Vegans".