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Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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[–] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

AI vegans? I'm very much against AI but I'm not a vegan. I wonder if vegans like the term vegan used for this. I think I would be annoyed if I was one too

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Vegan here. This is stupid

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This sounds like a marketing attempt to align us modern Luddites with an already established "out group" to build a public perception against abstaining from planet killing slop generators.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Corporate news and media, especially in cases like this, has always been a tool to turn the uninformed public against educated dissenters. They targeted hippies in the 70s for speaking out about the military and prison industrial complexes and this is more of the same. It's a cheap attack that always works.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Veganism is a philosophy of minimising harm to animals as much as is practicable. There are no health reasons for being vegan, there are health reasons for following a plant based diet which vegans do instrumentally. A "vegan for health" would e.g. wear skins and fur.

    So this article fundamentally misunderstands veganism. Then applies it inappropriately.

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