↤ February 02th, 2026
I have finally worked out why the “AI-vegan” narrative is a logical fallacy.
AI-boosters, and yes, that includes all you with the “nuanced takes”, use it to absolve themselves.
The “choice to forego meat on ethical grounds” analogy would work if programming was always done with genAI and now folks are abstaining because the numerous externalities are no longer bearable.
But in fact we have not been programming with genAI this whole time and now we have discovered meat, a way to produce protein in one of the most atrocious ways imaginable.
However, we are not using that protein to feed the starving. Instead the people who already have more than enough food to last a lifetime, get their fill of protein a little bit faster. And producing that protein takes away nutrition from the people who don’t have enough of it in the first place.
That’s the actual analogy.