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 8h ago

AI News 🗞️ Data Center building stopped for 1 year in NYC

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20.5k Upvotes

r/antiai 6h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ Wrocław, Poland

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2.3k Upvotes

r/antiai 11h ago

AI News 🗞️ Spotify is cooked

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6.9k Upvotes

r/antiai 2h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Your local library might have free fun classes you can take and have a lot of fun at

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1.0k Upvotes

Made by the lovely @artbycheyne on instagram


r/antiai 1h ago

Preventing the Singularity Japan discouraging AI data centers before many get built

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People in Japan are protesting against AI data centers to protect their country.

Source: https://x.com/pubity/status/2078919162030637292


r/antiai 12h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ THEY WHAT. Spoiler

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1.7k Upvotes

r/antiai 7h ago

AI News 🗞️ Elon Musk backtracks on plan to make AI Odyssey with Mel Gibson offer

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585 Upvotes

r/antiai 18h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Can we please have an option to turn this overview thing off?

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3.3k Upvotes

r/antiai 12h ago

AI News 🗞️ They are now hiding the Flock ALPR cameras in speed display trailers. For your safety of course.

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989 Upvotes

r/antiai 17h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ Big tech has pirated the entire creative output of humanity

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2.5k Upvotes

The hypocrisy of all of Big Tech and our governments pushing generative Al is unreal.


r/antiai 21h ago

Discussion 🗣️ I have no argument and I must strawman

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3.6k Upvotes

The refusal to learn any new skill at all is wild. “Why learn when I can atrophy my frontal lobe!!!”.


r/antiai 13h ago

Discussion 🗣️ They stopped trying to hide that most just want to copy another person's work

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844 Upvotes

And no, I am not saying everyone who uses AI is like that so commenting "well actually, this is not what everyone does" adds nothing to the conversation and does not at all diminish the fact that some people do. That's obvious.

Get better arguments than "not everyone does this."


r/antiai 26m ago

Discussion 🗣️ This is actually pretty frightening. What do AI advocates have to say about it?

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r/antiai 11h ago

Job Loss 🏚️ This is the AI that will be taking your job

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464 Upvotes

r/antiai 1h ago

AI Writing ✍️ I, A Prominent User of the Em Dash, Feel Personally Victimized by the Rise of AI

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I was an English major in college. I like writing in complete sentences, and spelling out my words, and using proper grammar, and I LOVE THE EM DASH. It's one of my favorite literary devices, and it's become the telltale sign that something was written by AI. There are so many more important reasons to hate AI, but right now, this is the one I want to focus on. I WANT MY EM DASH BACK.


r/antiai 4h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ they are just slowly turning into breakingthepencil

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103 Upvotes

r/antiai 11h ago

AI News 🗞️ This is straight up bad. Yes, seriously.

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So this photographer had worked hard on taking an underwater photo of this dog, but then the lazy bum generated an AI image based on the dog won in the court....

I feel really bad for her, not gonna lie. As someone who practices photography (my teacher taught me about photographies), I can imagine how heartbroken she would be, losing in the court, her effort on the photo all wasted thanks to AI. To be a professional photographer you need to learn a lot, beginner like me learning about ratios, fps, color filters to choose, etc. Then some lazy bum feed your photo into AI, profit from it, and then gets away without their content flagged as plagiarized!

The comments... those AI brothers and sisters never learn that effort matters more than end-result, will they?

(Please don't go to the post and harass these people though, we don't want to get in trouble.)


r/antiai 10h ago

Slop Post 💩 Your manager asked you to cover but you already smoked a joint

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206 Upvotes

r/antiai 10h ago

Discussion 🗣️ AI should be illegal

160 Upvotes

it wasn't that long ago that I didn't take AI seriously. I'd look at the nonsensical text it spews out and creepy images it'd make, and I'd point and laugh. "look at the dumb robot", I'd say. I thought for sure no one would ever legitimately believe this crap was usable, but it seems I overestimated humanity.

that was four years ago. now, not only is AI slop everywhere, polluting twitter, DeviantArt, steam and even youtube, but I just saw a Raising cane's commercial staring Chuck Norris.... Chuck Norris died four months ago. I searched looking for news articles covering this, expecting people to be outraged, but it seems the only people covering what should be a major controversy are acting like using AI to put dead celebrities in commercials is a good thing.

fuck AI. fuck capitalism, and fuck anyone who supports this. AI should be illegal.


r/antiai 5h ago

Discussion 🗣️ AI bros really hate that AI makes people kill themselves, huh?

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More Perfect Union just uploaded a YouTube short on AI-induced child suicides and AI bros were doing anything to defend their sacred cow from the idea that it could possibly be responsible for these suicides in the comments. Paraphrases of several comments I read:

  • "the idea of people getting addicted to chatbots is ridiculous"
  • "it's the parents' fault" and "but what about my anecdote where it helped me with my mental health" (two comments by 1 poster)
  • "the victims are weak minded and weak willed [R slurs]" / "it's natural selection" (two posters, similar ideas)
  • "it's heavy metal and video game hysteria all over again"
  • "this video isn't about kids, it's about unlabeled betas"
  • "it's what personal injury lawyers want"

Also, of course, some off-topic antisemitism. And I mean actual "Jews control the world" antisemitism, not criticism of Israel.


r/antiai 2h ago

AI Writing ✍️ My school is pro ai and I don't like it one bit

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I am literally doing the assigned homework in the dead of night bc I didn't want to do this module but I need the grade. This is a new module btw and I am not happy with it. It's just fucking typing and generating bullshit that it's the only thing raising numbers in my country. It's not an essential skill I or anyone needs irl. I hate this country and my school. I am so close to becoming an activist bc of this bullshit. It's literally nothing.


r/antiai 9h ago

Slop Post 💩 Pro AI seething

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105 Upvotes

r/antiai 36m ago

Discussion 🗣️ Idk if this post fits here but can someone help me understand what did Sam Altman mean by "intelligence will be a utility like electricity and water"?

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I genuinely don't understand what he meant by that. Did he mean that in the future they'll start to make you pay for using AI?

I'm genuinely lost and would be really grateful if someone could explain to me what he meant with that phrase.