• @[email protected]
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    2719 hours ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    17 hours ago

    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.

  • Rose
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    571 day ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    181 day ago

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

  • udon
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    241 day ago

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

  • Destide
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    131 day ago

    Journalists constantly trying to be the origin of a term.

  • @[email protected]
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    241 day ago

    “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?

  • That Weird Vegan
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    231 day ago

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