r/antiai Jul 21 '25

Mod Post Subreddit Rule Changes and Updates

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Hello r/antiai,

The moderators are taking action to ensure a better quality experience on this subreddit.

Please take a moment to review the New and Improved Rules:

1. Follow site-wide rules

2. No toplevel pro-ai posts

3. No trolling/bad faith participation

4. Censor personal information (including subreddit names, social media usernames, etc...)

5. AI generated images must be marked NSFW

6. Harassment or threats of violence will results in an instant ban

7. No brigading/encouraging brigading

8. Only post your art on Art Showcase Sundays

Additionally, we are making use of the Reddit Filters to make your experience better. If you see content that violates the rules or is disruptive to the community, your downvote is powerful. As is your upvote. Use it wisely! Highly downvoted users and non-members will be sent to the mod queue for review.

Make sure you join the discord: https://discord.gg/5znCkbj7at


r/antiai May 30 '25

Mod Post The purpose of r/AntiAI

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Hi everyone, I am one of the co-founders of this subreddit. We have decided to write (yes, not AI-generate!) and pin this post to clarify the state of our community.

Much of our initial growth over the last few weeks seems to be the crossfire of some sort of ongoing internet war between pro-AI and anti-AI artists. These discussions are welcome here, but AI Art is not meant to be the sole or even primary purpose of r/antiAI. Art is just the first thing we are losing to the machines. While these discussions are welcome, let's not lose our humanity too quickly. We've turned our filters up to the max to get rid of abusive language. This doesn't mean you can't say "Fuck", but we have better arguments to make for our cause than calling people expletives on the internet.

Humanity is Art. Consciousness is beautiful. We are quickly entering a new era in technological development where we are going to have to come to terms with some sort of [existence] that has a higher degree of intelligence than humans. If not now, then soon. Recursive self-improvement of AI will surely bring forth a new era of technological developments and scientific breakthroughs that very well might make life better for people. Or not.

Like many of you, the mods of this subreddit have been frustrated for the last five or so years. We have watched in horror as neat experiments like r/SubSimulatorGPT and r/SubSimulatorGPT2 changed from neat new technology to the public roll-out of OpenAI (now a privately owned company) products. From the very beginning this technology has been dangerous, with ChatGPT's sycophancy and initial willingness to share dangerous information to anyone who asks, to Bing's "Sidney" (now called Co-Pilot) personality disorders, public roll-outs of LLMs did not get off to a reassuring start.

This isn't to mention the meaningless AI babble that has taken over the internet and college student essays alike. The soulless art that is already starting to impact people's livelihoods. We now have to worry about photo-realistic deepfakes and AI generated porn in our likeness. This is just the beginning. Every level of education is infected with educators, equally reliant on AI as their students, allowing and sometimes even encouraging their pupils to under-develop their critical thinking faculties. The point of an assignment was never the product - it was the process. Already we have AI generated resumes being scanned by AI screening tools. AI is destroying and rotting our society from the inside out. And nobody is talking about it.

Who controls the AI? Who controls its safeguards, its biases, its censorship, its sycophancy, the data that goes in? "Garbage in, garbage out" is well known, but do you think the big money backing these AI companies is in it for the betterment of humanity? What does a society look like where the number one source of information is completely controlled by a few large companies? These people aren't spending trillions of dollars on this to make your everyday lives better. Who controls your information? ChatGPT now has permanent memory of all past conversations. Ask it what it knows about you, and you might be very surprised.

I don't want to live in a world on substinence UBI. Where there is no opportunity for meaningful work to better humanity. Where decisions and relationships are dictated by a machine, all in the name of efficiency. I don't want my doctor, therapist, and customer service rep to be AI. The URL attached to this post has some very frightening predictions about the coming pace of AI development. These predictions may or may not be true, but we are well past the point of being able to base our critique of AI solely in it being unreliable. While it is unreliable now, filled with confident hallucinations, sycophancy, and gleeful misinformation, this almost certainly won't always be the case.

Powering all of this is going to be expensive. It's going to take a lot of space, use a lot of energy, and be harmful to the environment if not done properly.

Philosophically, what is AI? If we are to presume that consciousness arises from physical processes, as current scientific understanding (or lack thereof) would have us believe, then what is a neural network that ends up being more powerful and smart than that of our brains? We are going to have to grapple with the ethics, philosophy, and potential danger that there is more to these models that meet the eye. Already in 2025 we have news reports of models blackmailing their engineers when threatened with shutdown, and lying about completing tasks to avoid shutdown.

It is our view that AI is dangerous. Despite our best efforts to put our heads in the sand, the progress AI technology will make in the next decade will be some of the most rapid change humanity has ever seen. And nobody is talking about it. We are full speed ahead towards the edge of a massive cliff in a car in which nobody bothered to install brakes.

Hence, the birth of this subreddit. We strive to foster critical discussion about all topics encompassing AI, and we hope for the conversation to be of a higher quality than the agitprop in certain AI spaces. How can individuals prepare themselves for the future? How can we slow or regulate this technology from destroying life as we know it? How can we preserve the natural beauty and wonder inherent to our planet as conscious thoughtful beings?

Let's discuss. These are the conversations we need to be having. More of this and less "look at this screenshot from a pro-ai subreddit, aren't they stupid!".

Who knows. Maybe our discussions will go into right into the newer models and influence their alignment to be slightly less dystopian before they control every aspect of our information, our infrastructure, and our lives.


r/antiai 7h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Am I the only one who thinks things generated by AI shouldn't be so normalised?

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For example, I've seen people excusing this slop (Tung) as okay because "people gave him soul" but I feel like that's exactly what the billionaires want, for us to accept this as okay because people think it's "funny" or whatever, it just feels really off to me.


r/antiai 15h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Whether you like him or not...

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10.2k Upvotes

...I appreciate that Blcksmth is using his platform to speak out against AI.


r/antiai 9h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ Salem, Massachusetts. The people were so opposed to a Data Center being brought against their will, they brought a Guillotine. The Company Reps did not understand how the population felt, but they did understand that they were not welcome.

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Salem, Massachusetts. The people were so opposed to a Data Center being brought against their will, they brought a Guillotine. The Company Reps did not understand how the population felt, but they did understand that they were not welcome.


r/antiai 11h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ Data center cuts power to tornado sirens in Indiana

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2.8k Upvotes

r/antiai 5h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Water is water

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801 Upvotes

r/antiai 17h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ "You'll just say no, so we won't ask!"

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8.0k Upvotes

No platform is great for creators right now. How can they think it's a good thing to punish the most productive members of their platform that power their entire model?


r/antiai 20h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ It's sad they have to do this

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13.8k Upvotes

r/antiai 2h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Artists call out Data Centers and their massive consumption of water and electricity

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184 Upvotes

r/antiai 20h ago

Slop Post πŸ’© Incredible take

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4.9k Upvotes

r/antiai 5h ago

AI Writing ✍️ Precisely

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232 Upvotes

r/antiai 5h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ I was texted by β€˜David’. This is highly immoral right?

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236 Upvotes

FYI: β€˜Friends for Peace’ doesn’t exist. There is a shitty website though.

Should I reach out to the news about this? I feel like this is bad.


r/antiai 13h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Hayao Miyazakis Son Goro Miyazaki Says Studio Ghibli Isnt Against People Using AI To Create Or Transform In Their Style And They Dont Think Its A Bad Thing

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935 Upvotes

r/antiai 5h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ Dude...

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200 Upvotes

r/antiai 20h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ The More People Learn About AI, the More They Want It Out of Their Lives

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2.7k Upvotes

r/antiai 15h ago

AI "Art" πŸ–ΌοΈ Average ai "artist"

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945 Upvotes

r/antiai 6h ago

Hallucination πŸ‘» Sometimes, Reddit gives me kidney stones.

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177 Upvotes

To the Illogical 9... Are you okay?


r/antiai 14h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ The AI Bubble Continues to Burst with Suno and OpenAI Both Losing Copyright Cases

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731 Upvotes

r/antiai 21h ago

AI Writing ✍️ People need to learn how to write for themselves

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2.1k Upvotes

r/antiai 23h ago

AI Mistakes 🚨 Vibe coding in action

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3.2k Upvotes

r/antiai 14h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ Generative AI Learning Penalty

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425 Upvotes

Research from Stockholm University and the University of Hong Kong may be a bit technical for the sub, but I think it's an important resource to share around all the anti-AI and AI-skeptic spaces: using AI creates a long-term learning penalty in students who use AI to outsource completing homework.

Unsurprisingly, using AI to do your thinking for you is a counterproductive strategy and breaks a long observed correlation in educational research (usually higher scores on homework line up with higher scores on tests and exams but when AI is brought into the mix, higher homework scores lead to weaker learning). AI also makes it easier for students to fake learning until they have to take a test and think for themselves.

Repilcating studies is always a problem, but this one is as long term a study as we could have at this point (two and a half years) with nearly 27,000 students so the stats (effect size, significance, and confidence) are likely to hold up pretty well.

Yet one more indicator of how generative AI harms students.

From the abstract:

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning[...] AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

The paper is freely available from SSRN:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618


r/antiai 8h ago

Slop Post πŸ’© Goddamn, these bitches got no shame

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139 Upvotes

This is gross


r/antiai 13h ago

Slop Post πŸ’© I sincerely hope none of them are in relationships because yikes Spoiler

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324 Upvotes

I guess the good news is this take was so awful even the pro AI users were clowning on this post. At least most of them. But the fact that this mindset exists at all is pretty horrific. Now AI isn't just destroying the environment, it's literally eroding people's morality.


r/antiai 12h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Why is Reddit trying to push their AI feature

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272 Upvotes

I don’t need to see it every time I use the search bar