• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    People who use them “vegan” for somebody they consider extremist, ascetic, or annoying are really telling on themselves.

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    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.

  • canajac@lemmy.ca
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    LOL gen z kids are fucking hysterical. AI will save the world, it has already started.

  • BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works
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    I find it hilarious that most people in this thread are complaining about being called a “something vegan”, like I can understand not being happy with the current AI trend, but it seems like the word “vegan” is what makes everyone ticks, it’s NOT an insult, the “normal” vegan are very happy to be called like that, because what it refers too is something that they agree and identify with. If you agree and identify yourself with what those journalist are calling “AI vegans”, the name doesn’t matter, embrace it, call yourself that to easily express what you believe about AI.

    Vegan is not an insult, it is a compliment.

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    I played around on an AI image generating website for a while. Eventually got bored with it.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
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    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.