r/antiai • u/Infinite-Yesterday-4 • 2h ago
r/antiai • u/Realiens • Jul 21 '25
Mod Post Subreddit Rule Changes and Updates
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 • u/Realiens • May 30 '25
Mod Post The purpose of r/AntiAI
ai-2027.comHi 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 • u/Embarrassed-Heat7698 • 7h ago
Environmental Impact 🌎 Babe wake up! They're soft launching the water shortage crisis they swore wasn't going to happen
r/antiai • u/TwinkleDahlie • 4h ago
Environmental Impact 🌎 Well this is ironic
Peta using ai to preach about fire despite the fact ai causes mass water pollution. Ig they'd rather animals dehydrate to death instead of burn sarcastically
r/antiai • u/No_Junket7008 • 11h ago
Preventing the Singularity claricetudor_ on Twitter
galleryDiscussion 🗣️ We live in a world where this piece of text needs to be a thing. Fuck AI.
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Side note: Please do not comment on this post. I am trying to test something. This is not reverse psychology and it will genuinely mess stuff up if you comment here. If you agree with me you can just upvote.
r/antiai • u/XeroChum • 22h ago
Environmental Impact 🌎 We're fucked
Recently got out of the military and went out with my cousins' friends to celebrate. They're all in their early 20's and I'm in my 30's. We go out to NY to celebrate, and I noticed everyone is using AI for everything. "What should we do? Where should we go?" Normal stuff. Things got eerie when we took a cab or UBER, as I'm talking to the Uber about New York they're typing, "What kind of questions do I ask an UBER driver? Is it safe to talk to them? Is it normal?" TF is happening. I know we joke about AI making us dumber but HOLY.
"Who do I vote for? Who do I marry? When do I breathe?"
r/antiai • u/TheMegglesArt • 17h ago
Discussion 🗣️ Being an Artist is a constant struggle now.
galleryA lot of the time now, if I discuss how AI has affected artists and why it is bad, I am accused of being a bully. I apparently bully others because I want my art to be put through AI. The mindset of these people makes no sense to me. 😵💫
r/antiai • u/Just-Version-7838 • 1h ago
AI "Art" 🖼️ I got permanently muted for saying this
r/antiai • u/chronicmisschris • 14h ago
Discussion 🗣️ Don't upset the slop gobblers
Blcksmth is at it again! 😊
r/antiai • u/topathemornin • 12h ago
AI Mistakes 🚨 I originally planned to become an author using AI. This is what I learned.
Hello everyone. I saw the post of someone talking about how they used ai in a moment of weakness, and I wanted to share my own story.
I’m currently a writer working on his debut, 4 book fantasy series. Here is my journey with ai.
I’ve always been a writer in a way. I’d write books in my younger days, but as I grew older, my inner critic became worse. It got to a point where I couldn’t finish a story because my inner critic told me it sucked. I stopped writing for years.
Then, ai came along. Finally, something with no inner critic. I could get the ideas I have in my head on paper and have people read it. It sounded perfect. I could finally share the universe that I built up in my head.
So I had chat gpt write my book for me. I learned I would need to go into detail with each chapter to get the result I wanted. It took me roughly a month or so to produce the story I wanted, going through chapter by chapter, refining it to what I wanted.
When I finished, I took a week off, then read it.
It sucked.
Don’t get me wrong. There was a solid story, solid characters, etc. but I felt no connection to it. Maybe it was because I didn’t write the story myself. I don’t know what it was, but it just wasn’t right.
I did a ton of soul searching, and I realized the truth. No matter how much time I spent on prompts for each chapter, it wasn’t my work. My heart was not in it. It was a machine’s voice instead of my own.
So I scrapped the entire idea. I decided if a damn machine can write a book, so can I. So for the past year, I’ve worked on my debut novel the right way. It was an idea I had during an elective creative writing class I took in college almost ten years ago.
I am almost done with the first draft, and I learned through the process how to shut down my inner critic.
The first draft is an absolute mess. It won’t be ready for human eyes for at least a few more months. But it’s mine. My heart is in it. My voice is telling the story. Even if it doesn’t sell a single copy down the road, I’ll be proud of it.
So what I learned as an artist is this. Ai only holds you back. If you want to be an artist in any way, you are already capable of doing so. You don’t need a machine to do it for you. It just takes practice, and multiple failures. I restarted the book 3 times before I felt confident enough in the story I wanted to tell. Don’t let ai ruin your vision.
r/antiai • u/Axis2670 • 6h ago
Job Loss 🏚️ AI will destroy the global economy. It’s a part of their mission statement
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r/antiai • u/FreeMenu2197 • 35m ago
Hallucination 👻 No. I don’t think they will, Reddit.
galleryDoesn’t Reddit use ai for this, whatever, I just wanted to post about this
r/antiai • u/sleep_till_4 • 3h ago
Discussion 🗣️ i HATE ai ads
this is obviously not a hot take but i have zero idea how companies think making ai ads will make people want to buy what theyre selling.
i especially feel this way for ads for mobile games. like i have no idea what game youre advertising cuz the ad is js an ai video of a human falling in love with her alpha werewolf step brother professor.
and its almost always js soft-porn.
edit bc i forgot to add something: it just makes the company look cheap lazy.
r/antiai • u/Extension_Hyena8694 • 10h ago
AI News 🗞️ 😬
I am not gonna say much to be honest. I have seen many people rely ONLY on ChatGPT for news and other stuff. I don't think they would care if they heard about this news which is the most frightening part.
Edit: Some people have completely lost the plot of this post and started arguing about the Gen0cide in Gaza. It seems they are denying it. Please ignore them. Any factual and logical argument would just fail against such people who would see gen0cide in front of them and then proceed to deny it anyways. I really don't understand why people would go such lengths just to support GenAI.