<![CDATA[Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever.]]>Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever.

If anyone is an "AI vegan" it's me -- I don't use these tools at all, ever, because they are unethical. Telling me that they are delicious is not going to make them ethical.

Also, I will endlessly berate you about your use.

That's veganism, you're welcome.
https://jwz.org/b/yk6V

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/483d54eb-c43a-4a7d-a286-dcc89b5dbcd1/some-asshat-out-here-calling-themselves-an-ethical-ai-vegan-because-they-only-use-corporate-ai-tools-in-uwu-smol-ways-and-i-dunno-i-guess-they-do-a-land-acknowledgment-before-they-boil-a-lake-or-whatever.RSS for NodeTue, 28 Apr 2026 05:00:02 GMTThu, 16 Apr 2026 20:00:31 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:45:09 GMT]]>@thechris Once again. It DOES NOT MATTER whether it works. Even if it worked great, it would still be a tool of fascism destroying the environment with its boot on the neck of the working class and human creativity, and using it would *still* make you a complicit and selfish asshole.

That being said, it doesn't work. Great. Still not the main issue here.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jwz/statuses/116418223105151617https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jwz/statuses/116418223105151617Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:45:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:42:23 GMT]]>@jwz I'm an AItheist myself - I don't believe all those religious "AI" cult bros that their shit works

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://norden.social/users/thechris/statuses/116418212253003680https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://norden.social/users/thechris/statuses/116418212253003680Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:42:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:56:03 GMT]]>@jwz

Duckduckgo has an easy to find toggle to keep the AI function off when u search.

Anyone still using google for whatever reason can scroll over to News, or Web search and it won't automatically dump AI blurbs for you.

My understanding of this is superficial, feel free to correct me, anyone.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116313284892040418/statuses/116417794140974979https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/116313284892040418/statuses/116417794140974979Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:56:03 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:46:16 GMT]]>@desantis @jwz
Totally.
Middle management was already basically an exercise in iterated butt-covering and accountability-diversion... They were always gonna be all over a machine to automate the process of fucking things up an exactly industry-standard amount which they can call "standard practice".
😩

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jaystephens/statuses/116417755661185934https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jaystephens/statuses/116417755661185934Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:46:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:22:59 GMT]]>@Recalcitrant @pelle we need to bring back the Luddites tbh

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ni.hil.ist/users/tsvga/statuses/116417428189372066https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ni.hil.ist/users/tsvga/statuses/116417428189372066Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:22:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:53:28 GMT]]>@jaystephens @jwz And don’t forget the ole favorite, one can totally blame AI for shitty work, and sleep well at night knowing they contributed nothing. It’s mind blowing. Oh well, let’s let these people dumb themselves down to the point where they forget how reproduction works and have to ask chatgpt….

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.bida.im/users/desantis/statuses/116417312101746158https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.bida.im/users/desantis/statuses/116417312101746158Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:53:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:49:19 GMT]]>@pelle @tsvga animal agriculture and AI data centers are both parts of the exploitative global capitalist model! We have to resist both!!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://autonomous.zone/ap/users/116030912987710399/statuses/116417295780493545https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://autonomous.zone/ap/users/116030912987710399/statuses/116417295780493545Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:49:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:16:10 GMT]]>@desantis @jwz
Yeah there's a combo of cognitive dissonance and the fact that AI is genuinely good at speed running David Graeber bullshit jobs, that is leading to some very weird places...

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jaystephens/statuses/116417165428961567https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jaystephens/statuses/116417165428961567Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:16:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:03:42 GMT]]>@jaystephens @jwz Fucking figures… Never thought of it that way. This forced feeding of shite technology is priceless when even people closer to the C suite don’t even want to use it 🤣🚮

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.bida.im/users/desantis/statuses/116417116415762928https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.bida.im/users/desantis/statuses/116417116415762928Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:03:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:50:13 GMT]]>@desantis @jwz
The honest answer?
Because the boss who is asking needs to tick off the KPI marked "evidence of AI adoption by my team".

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jaystephens/statuses/116417063360626147https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jaystephens/statuses/116417063360626147Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:50:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:40:52 GMT]]>@qgustavor Proposal to call those "AI Tradwives".

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jwz/statuses/116416790666044513https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jwz/statuses/116416790666044513Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:40:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:40:09 GMT]]>@jwz I'm impressed no one mentioned the "I use AI but only on my hardware so it's ethical" folks.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://urusai.social/users/qgustavor/statuses/116416787882755167https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://urusai.social/users/qgustavor/statuses/116416787882755167Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:40:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:58:34 GMT]]>@tsvga
that may be true environmentally but it disregards the damage to our brains and to our trust and integrity.

it's so depressing that those speaking up for have started pushing , because truthfulnes is so important.

we will no longer be able to push back on »those videos are fake« if videos, photos and texts we're sharing are slop half the time.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/users/pelle/statuses/116416624361853639https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/users/pelle/statuses/116416624361853639Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:58:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:49:16 GMT]]>@jwz
they're clearly AI or AI .

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/users/pelle/statuses/116416587762213044https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://veganism.social/users/pelle/statuses/116416587762213044Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:49:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:48:02 GMT]]>@jwz climate changing info hazard polluting fascism machines

But I can't really get any of my coding friends to get their heads out of the sand.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.circl.lu/users/quinn/statuses/116416582918748376https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.circl.lu/users/quinn/statuses/116416582918748376Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:48:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:42:20 GMT]]>@jaystephens @jwz > "get me a CoPilot summary of X in format Y" 🤣 Why can't the person who asked for this do it _themselves_?!?! The amount of laziness and sheer objection to you know, doing this, is fucking ridiculous!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.bida.im/users/desantis/statuses/116416560525407961https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.bida.im/users/desantis/statuses/116416560525407961Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:42:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:40:04 GMT]]>@jwz Tech bros are so desperate they are just knocking off doors on every ideology or hastagh they see to sell ai like enciclopedia sellers 😂

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115952121886146124/statuses/116416551602491901https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115952121886146124/statuses/116416551602491901Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:40:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:26:19 GMT]]>@jwz as an actual vegan I've encountered a depressingly high number of vegans who support LLMs because "at least they're not as bad as beef"

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ni.hil.ist/users/tsvga/statuses/116416497539598580https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ni.hil.ist/users/tsvga/statuses/116416497539598580Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:26:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:54:31 GMT]]>@jwz
I get it, but even if I changed jobs the likelihood of that other job morphing to include AI use is high, so I'm not gonna feel _too_ guilty about doing the task I'm assigned, when it's sometimes literally "get me a CoPilot summary of X in format Y".

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jaystephens/statuses/116416372490200587https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/jaystephens/statuses/116416372490200587Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:54:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:44:33 GMT]]>@jwz "Shut up, AI vegan"

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/glassdelusion/statuses/116416333322142202https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/glassdelusion/statuses/116416333322142202Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:44:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:23:11 GMT]]>@Bredroll
Prompt air.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodontech.de/users/alterelefant/statuses/116416249319201461https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodontech.de/users/alterelefant/statuses/116416249319201461Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:23:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:21:26 GMT]]>@alterelefant Ohh I just thought of a good insult.

"stroking the prompt genie"

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/Bredroll/statuses/116416242405733187https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/Bredroll/statuses/116416242405733187Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:21:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:20:39 GMT]]>@alterelefant It might work well to coopt "airhead" - "ai-er head"

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/Bredroll/statuses/116416239320380673https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/Bredroll/statuses/116416239320380673Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:20:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Some asshat out here calling themselves an "ethical AI vegan" because they only use corporate AI tools in "uwu smol" ways, and, I dunno, I guess they do a land acknowledgment before they boil a lake or whatever. on Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:19:24 GMT]]>@Bredroll
Someone who uses these things could be named an 'ai-er' or 'air' in short.
@jwz

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodontech.de/users/alterelefant/statuses/116416234394047966https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodontech.de/users/alterelefant/statuses/116416234394047966Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:19:24 GMT