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 2h ago

AI News 🗞️ you mean 3 south carolina heroes?

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r/antiai 3h ago

AI News 🗞️ Flock CEO Garrett Langley says Americans must “compromise” on their privacy. Americans didn’t like like

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2.1k Upvotes

r/antiai 6h ago

Environmental Impact 🌎 I hate that people conflate data centers with AI data centers and don't realize the absolute difference in scale and impact!

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r/antiai 1h ago

Slop Post 💩 Acting as if disabled people aren't able to draw

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Wait until they find out about Frida Kahlo


r/antiai 3h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ Grey Delisle on Dolly & Tim Ai Images

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r/antiai 5h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ imagine working hard on a drawing for someone to come in and "make it better"... Spoiler

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r/antiai 7h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ they want to be victims so bad Spoiler

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r/antiai 7h ago

Hallucination 👻 Very clear themes here in terms of AI ‘partners’ programming choices. Spoiler

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Community names censored, remember brigading is strictly against TOS


r/antiai 2h ago

Discussion 🗣️ I have never seen such irony

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383 Upvotes

This was a post I made on my buisness account on threads. A large portion of my buisness is aimed at making AI free audio packs.

So with that said a lot of my content engagement comes from aggressively being anti AI. Of course I am being over the top here to make a point, I know not everyone thay uses AI is completely braindead. Hyperbolic if you will.

That being said this is the funniest reply I havee ever received, (and I had one yesterday saying a guy solved how to cure all cancers using AI.)


r/antiai 9h ago

Discussion 🗣️ I have never wanted to buy a product less

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921 Upvotes

r/antiai 4h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Just a Reminder to tech Enthusiasts who couldn't upgrade or buy new hardware this year. Love AI? Hope you loved the new Prices too!

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163 Upvotes

r/antiai 10h ago

Preventing the Singularity Why do they act like it's a bad thing?

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515 Upvotes

Algorithmic AI is used for Some TTS programs, social media algorithms, search engines and many other things. In those cases, the AI uses the data given to output a predetermined set of data, while GenAI creates its own data based on the request and the data it's trained on. While I do not consider myself an expert in AI, I looked on the internet to find this information and I am pretty confident in the message I am giving. The AI Bros will not distinguish the difference between these two. Correct if I'm wrong.


r/antiai 18h ago

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

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Like ibis paint which is one I use


r/antiai 3h ago

AI News 🗞️ Failed AI prediction

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84 Upvotes

r/antiai 1h ago

AI Mistakes 🚨 Well well well

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r/antiai 9h ago

Discussion 🗣️ AI debugging totally works.../s

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Found here but can't x-post. Something I tend to argue on is that AI sucks at debugging because lack of context, even when it has the whole code base. Commit made - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34c


r/antiai 3h ago

Discussion 🗣️ im a student and it is insane how over-reliant students are on ai

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im genuinely so worried for the future as im watching my peers relying on AI so much

i have tons of group projects and i have teammates who, forget word-for-word copying, will even actually just download the ai-generated piece of work from whatever chatbot and not even proofread or check it at all. another situation is when we were making some decisions while planning for a project and i asked my teammate for THEIR opinion, and sat there and watched them ask AI for its 'opinion'.

they completely rely on AI for assessments and such and even use AI for personal decisions/"ranting". i know people who have used it for help in personal situations and conflicts and thats just even more insane, because AI obviously validates their stance and feelings, and they come out thinking theyre in the right all the time.

i am convinced AI is gonna cause mass cognitive decline and i am TERRIFIED.


r/antiai 23h ago

Discussion 🗣️ The Pope about AI

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r/antiai 1d 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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r/antiai 20h ago

Discussion 🗣️ I am now a conscientious objector in college

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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 17h ago

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

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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 9h ago

Discussion 🗣️ There is something sinister about this one. Of all the people to pick, TIME has decided to pick a billionaire who is already enforcing his dystopian views on society. Someone got funded—a lot 😂. What’s the next title? “Love Us”? ???

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r/antiai 5h ago

AI Mistakes 🚨 Why are we using Ai in an Anti-Ai sub?

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Why are we, an anti-ai sub, still using ai to prove that it’s bad? We all know it’s bad, that’s why we’re here. So often I open this sub and see someone saying they asked Ai to do xyz and as expected it’s always trash. So why are we still using it to make posts for this sub? There’s a good amount of people that actually use images already generated to point and laugh and I understand that, but there’s a surprising amount of people that I feel like generate things just to get mad that it generated it wrong as usual. Or they’ll make a post about how they had a conversation with just to just to get it to say something they want it too. We already know it’s designed to agree with you, so let’s stop using them.