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"AI vegans" is a pretty stupid thing to call them, though.
The label isn't accidental.
It's designed to frame this as a fringe movement, and AI use as "normal".
“Gambling vegans are turning against giving their paycheck to casinos.”
Also kind of frames vegan as bad at the same time...
Better call them meat luddites ;-) ?
Meat luddites sounds like a grunge folk band from Victorville California.
That works for vegetarians but not vegans. No wonder it's confusing considering the similar naming.
It's a bad label that.
Taking two words and just ramming them together, instead of using the plethora of words are our disposal, doesn't really work in English and probably translates poorly to other languages. All of a sudden, vegan doesn't mean vegan anymore. Dictionaries and thesauruses exist. There are thousands of people who have degrees in English, in writing, in journalism. We don't need to reduce the English language to clickbait words. Because "AI" and "vegan" sound like SEO terms.
At best, if someone hears that, they're going to think, "What, they don't like AI-generated cows?". They'll write it off as stupid. And then you have folks that just see the word vegan, and then they're just done listening. It muddies both terms. And in both cases, it'll largely be viewed as a fringe trend that people who spend too much time online are doing, and it'll likely die off as trends do.
It becomes less a movement/stance/voice, and more "that thing kids put on their social media for a few months because they were all about it for that one summer". It's like if someone said "I'm a racist vegan"... Has a lot less punch than "fuck racism"
why? both are against a horrible industry that 99% of people can avoid but don't.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/discrimination-against-vegans
A shockingly high number of people have a negative view of vegans. And, separately but relatedly, veganism is (unfairly) associated with the far left in the United States. So a lot of conservative and moderate readers will see the word "vegan" and automatically think "this must be irrational leftist bullshit".
Even to some meat-eating liberals and leftists, "AI vegan" will read as "arrogant moral scolds who want to take away your chatbots and think they're better than you because they don't use AI."
I can't tell from the article whether "AI vegan" is a term people are calling themselves or something the media made up. But when mainstream media compares a movement to animal rights or veganism, it's almost never meant to be a positive.
Do gooder derogation. Someone does something good and then you feel bad about yourself. Then instead of trying to self improve, you lash out.
Big sad sack of shit maneuver, really.
Spot on. In German we have a cringe word that is used as a derogative by the far right. It is "Gutmensch" and literally translated means "good human", essentially meaning a person that applies ethics to her actions. How dare they not to be controlled by greed and hate!
Nearly half of the US voted for The Left in the last US presidential election. The US is not anti-Left at all.
Democrats aren't left? They are center right.
Sorry, did you post in response to the wrong comment? I didn't say the US was anti-left (though a lot of it is). I said the US was anti-vegan, which is not the same thing at all.
(I think veganism should be apolitical - eating healthy food, saving money, animal rights, self-sufficiency, public health, and so on, are not inherently leftist political issues. They're common fucking sense. But that's another rant.)
Go read a book