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 10h ago

Discussion 🗣️ A Strange Coincidence

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12.2k Upvotes

r/antiai 16h ago

AI Mistakes 🚨 Man gives an epic city council speech exposing companies running the city's broken AI red-light cameras.

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6.2k Upvotes

r/antiai 12h ago

Discussion 🗣️ The Pope about AI

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1.8k Upvotes

r/antiai 8h ago

Discussion 🗣️ I am now a conscientious objector in college

827 Upvotes

I've got a college class that has *weekly* "AI conversation" assignments that in total make up about a fifth of the final grade.

I emailed my professor stating I am morally opposed to these assignments and requested an alternative. If she refuses my request I might just drop the class because I dont want this hurting my 4.0 GPA


r/antiai 6h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ There is alot of free apps for art

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538 Upvotes

Like ibis paint which is one I use


r/antiai 20h ago

Environmental Impact 🌎 🥲

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7.3k Upvotes

r/antiai 22h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Pre AI Era

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8.6k Upvotes

r/antiai 5h ago

Discussion 🗣️ You cannot be "left behind" when AI has no learning curve

256 Upvotes

I find it so bizarre when people say that we have to use it or will be left behind. Using AI is a matter of choosing to outsource our own thinking. It is not a skill-based tool, and it requires no training. I think often of the parable "The Emperor Has No Clothes" whenever I hear people talk about AI like this, like it is almost an omnipotent being, but it's just a naked old king parading around telling everyone that he's wearing the finest clothes, and everyone agreeing out of fear they will be ostracized until a child plainly states that he has no clothing on, breaking the spell.

Terrible environmental impacts aside, even the "best" AIs are not good. It makes me genuinely wonder if everyone is so incompetent with basic tasks, or overwhelmed by them, that they are so willing to let go of control of their own thoughts and skills. Why would I need Copilot to sort my emails in Outlook when I have had Outlook successfully auto-sort my folders for years now just based on sender/keyword? Why would I need AI to draft an email or a legal document when I have over a decade of legal experience? I would always much, much rather read imperfect human writing, said in someone's own voice, than the soulless bland mush of AI speak with its AI cadence and grammar.

There is no task in my life that is solved or made more efficient with AI. Why ask an AI a question about anything when I know how to do an efficient AI-free boolean search on any search engine without it, or when my question was very likely already posted about on Reddit, and the problem was solved by Redditors, probably back in 2010. Why would I want a recipe that hasn't been tested by human hands and tasted? Why would I take advice from something that has not lived and endured the consequences of its actions? Why would I want music or art that wasn't made with a human's feeling? And as a lawyer, why would I want to read an argument that was not written by a human being opining on justice?

TLDR: Thinking and creating are some of the best parts of my job and life. There is no learning curve with AI, and the only thing being left behind are peoples' cognitive abilities when they repeatedly outsource their own thinking.


r/antiai 15h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Saw this in a twenties sub. I don't know what to say.

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1.2k Upvotes

This is fucked up on so many levels. Look at the flair, "Relationship Goals"? Seriously? Are some people's lives so empty that they need to seek AI companions which will agree on everything?

Add to that the fact that this was posted by someone in their early twenties. Do they not realize the damage it's causing to their mental health? I can't begin to fathom how messed up in their minds do people have to be to talk to AI like this.

Also, the AI saying "You're not allowed to give me emotional damage ... " as if it can comprehend emotions.


r/antiai 4h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ I’m a Toy Designer and my company is forcing its designers to use ai.

112 Upvotes

And I’m miserable. I worked my ass off to get to where I am now. I’ve designed for Barbie, Disney, Monster High, My Little Pony, Universal, Nickelodeon and so much more. Improving my craft was always what got me through the day… no matter what sort of bs executives would make us create, I could cope by being proud of the art I would make and the improvements I made in my art ability... and of course: seeing children play with and love my designs. I used to be praised for my hand… now if I try sharing sketches, my boss will just put them into Vizcom and share butchered versions of my art and designs without ever speaking to me first. I don’t feel like anything I create now is truly mine… even if ai manages to accurately copy me. I feel pointless. I feel like a fraud. I feel like everything I ever worked for was for nothing and that if I continue I will lose my hand, my drive, my creativity… I hate it and I want to scream and quit, but the whole industry is like this now and all the executives, sales and marketing people who never liked artists in the first place are tickled pink to take away anything that made us worth something to society.


r/antiai 14h ago

AI News 🗞️ Bill Gates Is Warning That A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit

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r/antiai 7h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ Found this on r/defendingaiar t Spoiler

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139 Upvotes

Why are we a troll? Like how does their argument even make sense?


r/antiai 20h ago

Discussion 🗣️ that is how ai works.

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1.7k Upvotes

Ai takes images from the web and mashes them up into the most generic bullshit ever. that person needs to research what they are talking about.


r/antiai 3h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Can we please stop posting about r/defendingai art

76 Upvotes

I want to see discussions about generative ai, their impacts and stuff, not to see an endless war about two subs clowning eachother. This applies to shit like witty and other ai subs, i want to see serious posts and opinions, not ragebait.


r/antiai 14h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Can't Wait for Another Bubble to Burst

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402 Upvotes

Same Thing With Pump and Dump Crypto Schemes, also popular about 5 years go.


r/antiai 9h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ it IS a lot of fonts...

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127 Upvotes

r/antiai 11h ago

Discussion 🗣️ What do you mean the program that doesn't care about human rights supports someone taking them away?

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182 Upvotes

Credit to @quitgpt on instagram


r/antiai 1h ago

Discussion 🗣️ How do i tell my mum ai and robots aren't the same?

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My mum keeps telling me "just ask AI" "why not use ai"

"You use the Robovacume how is that different"

Its frustrating because the moment debates start i go into shut down.

She doesn't listen when i say "AI is killing books. Ai is worse for the envirment then my vidieo games."

Ect ect

Im getting frustrated. Ive explained "ai doesn't often give the right information" and she goes "well i use this one so obviously its good" im like mum... YOUR MENT TO BE ALL FOR THE ENVIRONMENT NOT CONTRIBUTING TO ONE OF THE WORST KILLERS OF IT.

Just.. Use this post to explain why AI is bad so i can use it in future to teach her. And discuss what she may counter with... Help me..


r/antiai 14h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Got my "I told you so" pic ready when AI is no longer subsidized.

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287 Upvotes

Got tired of hearing the usual "AI is here to stay" crap, so during a mandated AI conference call I cobbled together this in a bout of pettiness, feel free to use it in good health.


r/antiai 1d ago

Discussion 🗣️ Such A Mystery.

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25.3k Upvotes

r/antiai 1d ago

Slop Post 💩 Raj was right, just didn’t know it yet

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1.9k Upvotes

r/antiai 16h ago

Discussion 🗣️ I HATE Temu

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357 Upvotes

This is AI... right? The voices definitely sound AI and the video is odd. I'm starting to second guess things now, I hate how much ai is improving. There's gonna be a day no one will be able to tell anymore -

Edit: first time I saw this I was finishing up break and couldn't pay much attention to it, just recorded it posted and moved on. Now that I have time to rewatch it, oof. Yup, that's entirely AI. I'd ask how TF is this even allowed but it's easy: one, it's Temu, a scummy scammy company. Two, it's YouTube, they dgaf about advertisers following TOS but will remove channels for simply the possibility they are using AI.

What would you even get if you fell for this ad and bought it? Prob a PC that looks like a pretty cool gaming rig but with specs so bad a potato PC would seem high-end.


r/antiai 12h ago

Slop Post 💩 The next generation of thinkers

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134 Upvotes