Post #1352489
2026-04-10 04:32 UTC
Replies (7)
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@campos@app.wafrn.net 2026-04-10 04:45
@kett@app.wafrn.net hadn't thought of the vegan analogy but honestly it very much does feel like that
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@alexia@shrimp.starlightnet.work 2026-04-10 05:51
@kett VL FUCKING C???? I am going to die* I think * of cringe
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@adamsfan@mastodon.social 2026-04-10 09:08
@kett Good point! I am vegetariam, since quite a while. And I try to avoid AI, whereever possible (I am no programmer). Both because of ethical reasons, and because I simply don't want to contribute to the System behind.
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@bikesebas@mastodon.online 2026-04-10 09:04
@kett From this perspective, there's a lot of parallels. There's lots of reasons to both go vegan and abstain from LLM usage. Some people are motivated by environmental/climate concerns. Some put ethical concerns first. Some underline better outcomes (health, better code), also because they feel like it's easier to convince people this way than hoping for them to take responsibility for their life choices.
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@ppxl@social.tchncs.de 2026-04-10 11:21
@kett I like the points being made in this post. And yet the comparison is a bit off. Eating meat was half culture-historically required to live a life which continued over hundred thousands of years. Until people got smarter - well: in a way but I digress. Inventing AI with all the impact in your post wasn't born from selective pressure to survive against the coldness and hunger but a completely new invention and people are pushing the world into a knife with closed eyes. No cultural history, only near-world-ending capitalist moneymaking. I am vegan because at some point in my life I couldn't turn a blind eye on these things. Like you, I do accept that different people are on different journeys. While I accept people use AI, it doesn't mean I have to keep silent about it.
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@aidan@carfree.city 2026-04-10 14:38
@kett someone should do a study that examines potential correlations between these ethical viewpoints, as an anti-ai covid-cautious vegan myself
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@lucas@tokyonight.city 2026-04-10 15:47
@kett@app.wafrn.net i can't deny that chatbots are doing more evil than good at this point, but at the same time i feek like theres a middleground to be had, much like eating meat, you can still minimize the cost of your consumption (eg. meat sorced from more ethical farms). chatbots can be used productively even if halucination is not hard to come by. its also important to know that ai is not completely going away anytime soon even with the bubble bursting. (in my opinion) its better to try and play to the chatbots' strengths instead of completely rejecting anything that even comes close to grazing them, like i've seen alot of people do. tl,dr: a chatbot can be used productively, if you know what youre doing