"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.

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

The possibilities are infinite if you are a netaphor vegan.

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

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.

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

I refuse to use it because it's shit.

We are not the same.

"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?

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.

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

"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 ai either. But because it’s fuckin stupid. It’s not even ai. It’s a glorified sorting algorithm.

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.

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.

Missed opportunity to coin the term “Aitheist” Fools.

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".

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

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

No, I didn’t make it up. Although I rather wish I did, because it’s quite catchy, isn’t it?

No, it isn't, it's fucking stupid. The author was kind enough to link the source of that shitty idea, and the AI/vegan parallels are, per said article: ethical, environmental and wellness concerns.

Gee wiz, I sure never saw people with those 3 concerns in regards to anything other than veganism!!!

/s