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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
Vegan here. This is stupid
Souls enjoyer and vegan, now I'm wondering how many of us are out there
There's literally dozens of us!
I feel like the overlap of soulslike enjoyers and vegans here is rather high considering that Lemmy is pretty left-leaning overall and soulslikes are quite popular
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.
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.
I think there are multiple levels on which to be annoyed by this article. 😬
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.
Vegans are against animal cruelty and exploitation. While there certainly overlap between AI and side effects impacting animals (like sucking up all the fucking water), i think this is a pretty gross title and using the term vegan for any other cause is stupid/ sensationalist.
They basically are going with "vegan means they don't eat animal byproducts so an AI vegan doesn't use AI". But if you just are not eating animal byproducts then you're just on a diet and are not Vegan. So i can only assume AI Vegan, if "vegan" was used correctly here, would mean you're against AI cruelty and exploitation. I don't think that's what you guys are about
But stupid titles like this get reactions which is what they want