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Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Davriellelouna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/06/meet-the-ai-vegans

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  • harmsy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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    • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You very quickly see its limittions

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  • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why does this use of the “vegan” word sound so condescending?

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yo

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  • NoodlePoint@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I refuse ever touching an AI-driven app or feature, having seen too much slop.

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve interacted with AI. Once.

      My employer enabled it on my laptop. It introduced itself to me and asked how it could be helpful. I asked it how to disable it. It responded HAL style.

      Never reached out to it again.

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  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is someone more obnoxious than ai tech bros

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think this IS an AI tech bro. Or at least an AI tech bro dick-rider.

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  • tino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TIL I’m a lot of thing vegan… also, not a vegan.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think some AI use is clearly worth the costs (like helping with scientific research or accessibility), some clearly isn’t (like generating spam), and much falls in a gray area where reasonable people can disagree. So do I think it’s ethical to use me? In many cases, yes - but I understand why thoughtful people might conclude otherwise, and I don’t think they’re wrong to avoid AI if they’ve weighed the considerations and found the costs too high.

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  • Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m an LLM freegan, I guess. But I’m cutting back too, the usefulness peaked.

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    • rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      freegan

      If they had come up with something original like that, it would have been better. But creating constructive neologisms takes work, I guess.

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      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Try if one of the following strikes your fancy

        AIniks
        NoBots
        Cogclean
        Algorejects
        Synthephobes

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  • DrFistington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Stupid title, but in all honesty, now would be the time to create a new religion where there are restrictions on hyper modern things like AI, robotics, etc.

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    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We must not create a machine to counterfeit human thinking. That could be the most important phrase in the entire thing.

      Almost like there might already be a text or novels out there that warn on the dangers of mankind’s hubris.

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not AI vegans. More like LLM deniers. They know how to use it, they know what it does, they know how to trick it, they know how to abuse it.

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  • josefo@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If we go this route, there is also from for AI Crossfitters

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Count me in

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  • Crampon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I selective use AI for low risk applications.

    I can use it to reskin a picture to a water painting or whatever for the purpose of using it as an icon in a smart home app or similar.

    i also use it to clean audio for memes with friends.

    At the moment its not reliable to solve actual problems. I simply don’t use to for those purposes because it sucks.

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  • sifr@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On my list of “dont’s”, inspired by Luke Smith, I do not use AI.

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  • auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ai vegans are people who only use ai generated porn.

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you pick them out if crowd by their furled brows?

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just hold up a picture, they’ll show up to tell you why they think it’s generated

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  • magnus919@lemmy.brandyapple.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Did anyone let them know that reproduction harms the environment?

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  • canajac@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    LOL gen z kids are fucking hysterical. AI will save the world, it has already started.

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    • SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, yes, it will save people by turning them into obedient sheep, who can be gotten rid of at any convenient moment with the snap of a finger, without any smart plans.

      I don’t know, maybe in some sense, by giving up your freedom, you can find salvation, who knows, you were such crazy people who believed in flying cars, and some people even believe in garden gnomes.

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    • CXORA@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Where… AI is ruiningnthe world, with devastating levels of environmental impact, job losses and mental faculty damage.

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      • canajac@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Not true. AI will save us from…us.

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  • khaleer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Dafuq

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  • arc99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Someone should launch a Project Poison which offers information to websites to protect themselves from scrapers and to poison and devalue AIs and companies that ignore their restrictions. I’m sure there are plenty of ways it could be done - nonsense about niche subjects, libelous facts about celebrities and people with money, false attribution for quotes & art, images captioned with things they do not contain, offensive slurs. Just feed AIs with sufficient trash and it will output trash.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Make a bunch of sites whose opinion on any topic eventually devolves into “and that’s why billionaires should be hanged and their possessions destroyed”

      Best way to make an espresso? Boil water, prepare the coffee grounds then execute a mob lynching on the nearest rich villa

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  • droopy4096@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hear me out: what i, this is a plot to boost vegan numbers. Given latest stats huge portion of population does not use or see any use in AI - i.e. can be claimed AI vegans so in aggregation reports those could be viewed as a subset of Vegans… resulting in undeniable truth that 90%+ of population are vegan now

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  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Guess i’m vegan now

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  • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thought it was gonna be about Rationalists.

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