An Open Letter to Compassionate, Left-leaning, AI-hating, Animal-loving Meat Eaters

I'm going to start off by saying I'm aware this will probably be one of my most divisive, controversial posts. I originally was writing it for the Calgary Vegan Society, but they decided it had too much geopolitics and graphic imagery, so take that as a content warning. I am writing this open letter to a specific kind of person, not everyone. I'm writing this to those who consider themselves compassionate, left-leaning, and have a strong distaste for genAI. So if you're reading this, I'm going to start by assuming you're tired of all of the ChatGPTs and seeing the ✨ emoji in every app you use, or being forced to use genAI at work yourself by people who think LLMs and chatbots somehow magically print money. If you're reading this, I'm going to assume you're aware of the environmental detriments of AI and the data centres needed to power the massive computational needs of LLMs. I'm sure you already know about the once clean water made polluted and undrinkable by the endeavours of…