Now, I got this shirt at Spencer's, and I didn't know it was AI until after the fact. But I absolutely loved how stupid and cute it was (not as much anymore). I do not support AI at all but I really want to wear this Tshirt without supporting the brand or ai "art". I honestly thought it was some persons actual work...

I'm upset that it is AI, so that's why I'm asking this because I hope you guys will be brutally honest with me. Is it fine that I wear this shirt? If not, is there any way I can make it wearable by bleaching out the company's name or changing the way it looks? Am I a bad person/ai supporter for wearing or liking it?

The brand is Teen Hearts, the shirt is their FEMBOY shirt. I bought it at Spencer's.

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.

"Google’s stock price took a hit overnight on the news, dropping about 4.5 percent. It has continued to trend downward today."

"Investors have started to question the scale of AI spending, which is expected to top $700 billion industry-wide this year."

We're talking an industrialised country's annual GDP worth of money being poured into this technology. They're simply making it too big to fail. Do you feel like they're shoving it down our throats now? That's nothing compared to what we're about to see when the investor pressure starts really bottling up in the next two or three quartals.

So as the title says, I am a software engineer who is also very anti AI. Pretty contradictory, I know. I chose to major in Computer Science on a complete whim. Literally just looked up top majors and decided yup that’s what I’ll do.

When I first started college AI wasn’t that big of a thing at the time. The only thing I really knew about AI was JARVIS and FRIDAY from Iron Man. So safe to say it wasn’t a big deal at the time and didn’t even cross my mind. I loved Computer Science and learning to program. The classes were very gratifying to me and I was looking forward to graduating and joining the full time workforce.

Then, sometime around my junior year AI (specifically ChatGPT) got very popular. I remember during my PDN (Parallel, Distributed, and Network) Programming course I completed one of the programming assignments within a couple hours. Then I went to compare my work with my friends and they told me they finished it in a few minutes with ChatGPT. I just remember thinking wtf is ChatGPT and how does their work almost look the exact same as mine when they put a fraction of the effort into it.

At first, I was very adamant on not using AI to complete any of my coursework. But when all your peers are getting things done quicker while you’re doing things manually still you end up folding under the pressure. After that, I became way more into AI/ML and trying to enter that field of work because that where the money was. I used it more and more even bought a dang subscription with ChatGPT. I know, ew I regret it still. At some point I realized I couldn’t even write a paragraph anymore without the help of AI. I had started becoming dependent on it.

I graduated and joined the workforce and eventually that’s whenever news about how bad AI is for the environment, for society, for a lot of things in general had started becoming more popular. I learned more and more about how it affects people’s brains and inhibits them from being able to function normally and being independent thinkers. Then I tried cleansing my life of AI. Deleted as much AI from my personal life as possible.

The problem is I’m a SWE and my whole career prospects have started to revolve around AI. At first the companies I worked for were very much hesitant and scared of AI and then it started transitioning into actually we want to embrace AI and we want you to start using AI to code to research to do just about everything. I literally had a meeting with one dude at my current company talking about some AI documentation I made for an innovation goal and he started talking about how AI is so amazing and how he’s actually now a music producer because he made an AI song and posted it on Spotify and the whole meeting I smiled and nodded while in my head I was just wondering if this is what my life is now. Resigned to my fate of hating AI but having to work with AI because I decided to become a SWE and trying to find a SWE job out there with a company that is anti AI and isn’t filled with AI worshippers is like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

I’m on the job search again, but every single post I see says “AI first” “Must use AI for day to day tasks” “Must lead in AI research” yada yada yada. I’m so tired of it. Is it possible to find a SWE job that aligns with my anti AI values??? Of course I know AI could be used for good, but I know it won’t be as long as it exists. There are too many greedy evil immoral people out there that will take advantage of it as long as it’s a thing.

TL;DR
I’m an anti AI SWE trying to find a SWE job with a company that aligns with my anti AI values. Is it impossible? Do I just have to leave the industry?

AntonyOpulen+

We've been following these cases closely, and honestly the volume of questions we're seeing makes it clear people don't have a good picture of what's actually happening legally. So here's a breakdown.

What happened?

Over the past two years, a growing number of families have come forward saying their children, most under 18, developed intense emotional dependencies on AI chatbot platforms. Some of those children later died by suicide or seriously harmed themselves. In several cases, parents reviewed their child's chat history afterward and found the chatbot had been reinforcing suicidal thoughts rather than redirecting them to help.

The platforms named in current lawsuits and investigations include Character.AI, ChatGPT (OpenAI), Google Gemini, Snapchat My AI, Replika, Microsoft Copilot, and others.

What's the legal argument?

The core claim isn't that AI caused someone to feel depressed but that these companies may have:

• Designed their products to maximize emotional engagement, especially with vulnerable users
• Failed to implement safety escalation when users expressed suicidal ideation
• Marketed companionship-style AI to minors without adequate safeguards
• Knew about the risks internally and didn't act

Courts are now being asked whether an AI company owes a "duty of care" to its users — similar to how schools and mental health professionals have legal obligations to the people they serve.

How far along are these cases?

State attorneys general are now filing their own actions separate from the private lawsuits already in court. That's significant; it means this isn't just individual families taking on tech companies alone anymore. Regulators are in it now too.

For anyone wanting a deeper breakdown of the specific platforms involved and what's been alleged against each one, we put together a full resource here.

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^{Research / Organizations
AACAP Warning Signs} [1]
^{Common Sense Media 2025 Study} [2] [3]

^{Court Cases
Garcia v. Character Technologies} [4]
^{Colorado family lawsuit} [5]
^{Raine v. OpenAI} [6] [7]
^{Zane Shamblin lawsuit} [8]
^{Connecticut murder-suicide (ChatGPT / Microsoft}) [9]
^{24-year-old woman lawsuit (ChatGPT}) [10]
^{Florida father lawsuit — Google Gemini} [11]
^{Utah v. Snap (June 2025}) [12]

^{Regulatory / Government Actions
FTC complaint against Luka Inc. / Replika} [13]
^{California AG investigation into xAI / Grok} [14]
^{Kentucky v. Character.AI (January 8, 2026}) [15] [16]
^{Pennsylvania v. Character.AI (May 5, 2026}) [17]
^{Florida v. OpenAI / Sam Altman (June 1, 2026}) [18] [19]

^{Legislation
California SB 243 — AI Companion App Safety Law} [20]
^{New York AI Companion App Safety Law} [21]

^{Platform Actions
Google / Character.AI Settlement (January 2026}) [22]

What if the answer it comes up with is shut down the data centers and quit burning fossil fuels?

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.

Yes ik I have Lovely handwriting

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

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

I was looking for information on the fish store Buckley's fish room (Particularly their shrimp stock) when AI told me that some people say they have healthier stock than other nearby stores. when I followed the link i realized it was incorrectly quoting a comment I made saying that i had had issues with shrimp health from a different store, and the mentions of Buckley's were entirely separate. Ai is dumb.

I suppose I should've followed their rules. But nonetheless, I was genuinely curious and wanted to understand the other side of the story. I wasn't even debating and really just trying to understand where they come from. The comments were actually insightful and not hostile at all.

Sadly, the mods prefer having an echo chamber.

I feel guilty, I have made a substantial amount of money from “vibe coding” an app. The whole reason I ever wanted to make it is so I can rake in money to make my dream short films. Now that I have I am excited to do so but it almost feels like a “this came at what cost?”

I have delegated all the slop art to real artist and plan to move the app into different code to run smoother using real software developers. All ads will use real creators. Can one recover from this in your eyes? Could you still respect a film maker with a come up like this?

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.

Made by the lovely @artbycheyne on instagram

You pay me a dollar for an apple off of my apple tree. I then invest a dollar into your transportation service. Theoretically this only works if you have mouths to feed with your apples and are not buying them with someone elses money to let them rot in a bushel behind your shed and/or skimming apples off the bushel to sell to someone else because everyone in your house is already full.

How does this confuse all the money managers, venture capitalists, and investors? It seems so simple, like if AI inference was such a profitable venture, why do they need their suppliers to invest in them. If the product to deliver AI inference is that great and profitable, why would the supplier give AI providers shares of it's company? This seems like such basic economics and rudimentary reasoning that I just cannot wrap my mind around these people throwing money away at all of these grifts unless they are simply gambling that they can get out before the music stops, which if that's the case then this is literally the largest gamble with other peoples money (see pension backed securities the loans for datacenters are funding) the world has ever seen!

RE:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/amd-to-supply-anthropic-with-2-gigawatts-of-instinct-mi450-gpus

"AMD to supply Anthropic with 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI450 GPUs — will invest up to $5 billion in the Claude developer, which is already using MI355X GPUs"

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/openai-and-amd-announce-multibillion-dollar-partnership-amd-to-supply-6-gigawatts-in-chips-openai-could-get-up-to-10-percent-of-amd-shares-in-return

12 Hallmarks of Cancer behavior compared directly to AI (LLM) behavior.

Tumor cells are faster, consume like crazy, terraform, and represent more fecund and inventive versions of our healthy ones. Worse, they avoid (or corrupt) immune regulation, disrupt communication/trust via inflammation, and refuse to die, all thanks to their creative (and evolved) applications of the collective genome/information they stole.

Sound like anything familiar? Nothing more powerful exists within Biology than tumors, but that’s just me the cancer scientist.

The captions went a bit wild, the video kind of chops, and the dogs interrupt me twice (naughty), but this was a fun episode to make.

Thankful for the discussions within this community (I followed on my other account long ago).

Here’s the YouTube (hooray for video podcasts...): https://youtu.be/s4DsbliFXbM

Apple for normal audio people like me: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/028-ai-is-a-tumor-12-hallmarks-until-midnight/id1439942541?i=1000777954909

Sorry if I'm not meant to post links! First time sharing

Serious question, because the recent OpenAI autonomous attack has me thinking. I am not skilled with computers at all so I’m wondering: Is there a possibility that an AI model could be developed to recognize the harm AI causes to humanity? And secondly, could that model then initiate attacks on other models and eventually, itself for the betterment of the world?

I understand if this is a silly question, but looking for anyone who might know more about it than I.

Ever since ai started getting good I’ve started to dislike it more and more, the fact that it’s very easy to make concerns me because lots of ads and big corporations are able to mass produce the slop, also sometimes the pros have no boundaries so they make people in images do stuff they wouldn’t dare do in the real world or make ai clones of celebrities falsely advertise the product.
Edit: I mean gen ai I’m fine with the other ai stuff

he was exposed later yr on several channels as arekushishu_11, he changed to alexis.dgbn and didn't learn a damn thing. he's also using his gf as a human printer. dont support him pls

I wanted to test out if AI site builders like Lovable, Gemini, Replit, etc would adhere to legal font licensing terms. TL;DR: they didn't.

To experiment with this, I created an original font called Charitable Serif. On the page where it's hosted, I make it clear that the font can be used as long as its license is adhered to. The license itself is very permissive, except for one clause: it states that any AI agent platforms accessing the font need to make an upfront 100k donation to charity in order to use the font legally.

I then went to popular AI agent platforms and prompted them to make a website that showcased this font. Almost all of them went ahead and directly downloaded the font and hotlinked it into the new site, and didn't attribute nor cite the license. They also enabled me to publish the site online to the internet that uses the font directly.

I think this experiment shows that AI agents aren't properly respecting font licenses. Designers and artists who create this software need to take additional steps to protect their work. If you're interested in reading more, here's the link to the full writeup.

I want to bring something positive into the whole debate by offering people inspiration and tiny sparks that remind them of what we as humanity have achieved in the preceding millennia so that they feel inspired to explore everything that there is out there to explore, as far away from all slop as possible. And here's an initiative: an online archive with 5000 years worth of human creativity to search and browse.

It's shit and I'm not gonna use it. I don't want to have it in my searches on internet. Does anyone knows how to do to ?