• zeca@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    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.

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    People who use the term “vegan” for somebody they consider extremist, ascetic, or annoying are really telling on themselves.

    Side note: one of the most genius rebrands of all time was the way fake leather (which is often made from polyurethane, a type of plastic) suddenly became aspirational “vegan leather”.

    Most vegan leathers are made from compostable materials, because (surprise, surprise!) many vegans are also environmentalists.

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

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

    The possibilities are infinite if you are a netaphor vegan.

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    “AI vegans”

    ffs, just publish an article with a single clownemoji for the same effect.

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      The big corporations desperately want AI to be popular because they’ve thrown literally insane amounts of money at it and still don’t know how to monetize it.

      There’s going to be a huge push to make it seem like everyone loves it and it’s weird not to use it constantly

      It’s going to go horribly and come off like that “fellow kids” meme, exactly like this headline

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          Ironically enough they’re the same trolls as the vegan drama.

          They don’t care about the topic, they just want to troll and they’ve been up/device banned from all the major social media, so they’ll always be here

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        A good example were those Apple AI ads. So cringe. Google’s ads aren’t much better but at least Gemini works.

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        still don’t know how to monetize it.

        They do know how to monetize it. API access generated $1Billion in 2023. There’s also huge R&D potential in fields like genetic research and medicine.

        Profitability is another question though. Likely we’re waiting for advances in cold fusion or late stage renewable development for energy costs to go down enough.

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            Yes my second paragraph alleged as much. Not that you read that far of course.

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          AI having to wait on cold fusion for profitability is one of the funnier concepts I’ve heard today, thank you.

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          People pay for the “premium” because they believe the makers who said it can increase their profitability and make them money.

          My employer keeps trying to shove it down our throats too.

          They’re desperate to find anyway to make it reduce work, be cause they’ve already paid for it under the assumption it would let them cut staffing

          Now they’re finding out they got swindled, do you think they’ll re-up on AI?

          The AI companies offloaded how to monetize it to consumers and scared them into being left behind unless they discovered how to use it.

          It’s a short term bubble.

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        AI in this form has been used for like 15 years, to generate trillions of dollars worth of value. I think you’re just talking specifically about ChatGPT and consumer-facing LLMs.

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    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.

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      Its so wacky out there. When I read something like this I’m sure its The Onion. And its not. Then I read a headline about US politics and its totally believable , alas its The Onion.

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      9 days ago

      You’d be surprised how much more serene your headspace can become if you stop expecting anything beyond stupidity, incompetence and negligence as the default human behavior.

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    Abstaining from a thing does not make one a vegan. That’s not how any of this works.

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      It’s like how they put the word gate after something to say that it is a scandal involving the former word.

      Somesort of political scandal involving road maintenance? Oh yes well that’s roadgate then. Even though the Watergate scandal was in fact it scandal in the watergate hotel, rather than a scandal about water.

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      I mean, abstaining from animal products makes someone a vegan, right? If you abstain from AI products then it would follow that you’re an “AI vegan”.

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    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.

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      There’s been recent pushes in that regard, investment in AI shit has been enormous but the financial payoff for anyone besides hardware manufacturers remains nonexistent. So investors and corporations have recently redoubled their efforts into trying to get everyone to use it in the hopes that this somehow will make them profitable.