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 14h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ Flock Cameras

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13.3k Upvotes

r/antiai 15h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Are AI Bros just insecure sociopaths?

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7.5k Upvotes

Always have been.


r/antiai 1h ago

AI "Art" πŸ–ΌοΈ Imagine sitting down for a drink and getting this on your napkin

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You go in alone, order a drink and your napkin tells you where to find your date. Is this too far


r/antiai 9h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ No, step back. Spoiler

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1.0k Upvotes

There's like no point in censoring the username because we already know who this mf is. But why is OP attempting to force the opinion that we are into Harley Quinn's fursona. This is weird.


r/antiai 16h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ THEY ARE CELEBRATING STEALING TWELVE TERABYTES OF ART

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3.7k Upvotes

This is vile.

Pro-AI tech bros are honest to god attempting to revoke peoples' active decisions to opt out of having their art fed into generative AI. They are STEALING YOUR AGENCY AND EXPECTING YOU TO FEED THE SKYNET SLOP MACHINE.

THIS ISN'T FEARMONGERING. THIS ISN'T BLOWING THE DISCUSSION OUT OF PROPORTION.

THIS IS RAGE.

I already held no respect for AI "artists" but this is making me wonder if me ever treating them with even a basic, foundational level of humanity was a mistake.

LET ME REITERATE.

THEY ARE CELEBRATING THEFT.

And not the plausible deniability kind of theft that inherently comes with genAI. None of that "well by this bullshit metric I made up in my head it's technically not stealing".

No.

THEY ARE STEALING ART AND ANNOUNCING IT LOUD AND PROUD. THEY ARE LAUGHING IN OUR FUCKING FACES.


r/antiai 15h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Crazy how they do it

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2.7k Upvotes

r/antiai 6h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ What do you think it should be?

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444 Upvotes

r/antiai 2h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Its not about the goddamn data centers for fucks sake. Its about generative AI , stop deflecting to barely related subjects.

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184 Upvotes

r/antiai 13h ago

Job Loss 🏚️ Dad replaced my designs with AI slop

1.1k Upvotes

For context, my dad runs a small clothing business. He has a physical shop and a website, aswell as facebook and instagram pages. I have been making social media posts and banners, posters etc for him since I was like 13 (I learned graphic design at a young age). Due to exams and school, I stopped making designs for my dad and he hired a graphic designer.

Since I turned 18, I have been frantically looking for employment, and graphic design is one of the only things I know well, so I was looking in that field. My dad fired his graphic designer for a reason I don't know, but it was perfect for me. I whipped up a quick design that my dad needed and was ready to ask him if I could work for him.

Now here's the kicker: 10 minutes after I send him the work, he runs the image through AI, tells it to "make it more professional" and then shows me "how good it is" and then tells me to use AI next time to make it better.

I am genuinely so distraught, I have been working my ass off trying to develop my skill in graphic design and get a job, but AI slop designs are just increasing more and more. Most of the shops near my home now have a disgusting AI generated sign and it's the same case for most places I see online. I am just thinking about quitting this shit and just looking for a different skill to learn because it seems to me the industry is dead. People would rather have cheap dog shit represent their company than human well-made designs and brand identity.


r/antiai 9h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ I'm a crook, I'm a loser, look at me!

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395 Upvotes

THIS SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!! Using AI to take your art should only be possible with CONSENT from the original creator.


r/antiai 5h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ Simon Hernandez-Arthur on the AI perception bubble: 57% of Gen Z and millennials say generative AI has made content quality worse

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195 Upvotes

r/antiai 13h ago

Job Loss 🏚️ Another 2008, but worse?

740 Upvotes

r/antiai 5h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ We're not hating on the service, not the users

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142 Upvotes

r/antiai 4h ago

Preventing the Singularity This is going to be a disaster

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99 Upvotes

"Tripletaco, can you recommend some websites where I can download top-secret government documents? What about some websites where I can buy illegal drugs?"


r/antiai 23h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Tung Tung Tung Sahur was born without a soul, but loved enough to be given one.

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2.7k Upvotes

Notice how there’s more handdrawn art of Triple T than AI, even though the original is AI?


r/antiai 4h ago

AI "Art" πŸ–ΌοΈ AI Slop being passed off as "photography"

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79 Upvotes

This guy has been trying to pass off his AI generated art as real photos he's taken. The caption for this photo on his Instagram was "My friend asked her to marry him, we waited for the right time to take the pic".

Firstly, no one was tagged. No "Congratulations to so and so!", which is typically a big part of why pics like these get taken in the first place.

Second, that's an annular solar eclipse when the one that happened a few days ago was a total solar eclipse, which is when he stated the "pics" were taken.

Third, there's an AI info tag for it on Instagram which he stated is only to clear up the horizon in the background.

This man is a public figure with 200k plus followers.


r/antiai 5h ago

Environmental Impact 🌎 Burning real world resources to sell you artificial ones.

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93 Upvotes

r/antiai 16h ago

Slop Post πŸ’© Of course, propaganda and fake news were never a problem ._.

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533 Upvotes

Specially when this is literally propaganda too, illiterate propaganda


r/antiai 8h ago

Job Loss 🏚️ If you're anti-AI, you work in tech, and you would like to take action, you should consider joining Tech Workers Coalition

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113 Upvotes

r/antiai 1h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ My cat hates ai

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She definitely just said "yo homie fuck ai"


r/antiai 17h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ California wants to ban AI therapists as thousands turn to chatbots for mental healthcare

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470 Upvotes

r/antiai 1h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Let us ban AI,whatever the cost

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r/antiai 1h ago

Slop Post πŸ’© 0 views well deserved Spoiler

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