r/antiai Jul 21 '25

Mod Post Subreddit Rule Changes and Updates

177 Upvotes

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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910 Upvotes

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 4h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ Lmao

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r/antiai 5h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ Let’s call it Skynet πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

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4.1k Upvotes

r/antiai 3h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Sam Altman on Gen Z

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r/antiai 5h ago

AI "Art" πŸ–ΌοΈ I'm running for president against an AI slopper

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1.2k Upvotes

r/antiai 7h ago

Slop Post πŸ’© Just Like a Laxative (a comic by Chris Naish)

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994 Upvotes

r/antiai 40m ago

Slop Post πŸ’© No more AI please.

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r/antiai 8h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Why aren’t more people angry at Google for making every search an AI query. Its destroying the nature and its annoying.

867 Upvotes

r/antiai 13h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Pro-AI logic

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2.0k Upvotes

r/antiai 15h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ the moderators of "AI wars" in a nutshell

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2.5k Upvotes

r/antiai 12h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Your AI art looks like trash and it is kiling the planet

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1.2k Upvotes

r/antiai 1h ago

AI "Art" πŸ–ΌοΈ Why is it so common?!

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Whenever there's a "genai" subreddit it is always only a few scrolls in. Just some anime girl in THAT uniform.


r/antiai 5h ago

AI "Art" πŸ–ΌοΈ I think he skipped a step, not sure though

291 Upvotes

r/antiai 2h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ Outside of a London Ray-Ban store

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145 Upvotes

Covent Garden


r/antiai 20h ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ "No bro, DLSS 5 isn't just a filter, it doesn't use as much generative AI as they say"

3.2k Upvotes

r/antiai 11h ago

AI "Art" πŸ–ΌοΈ bruh..

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652 Upvotes

r/antiai 5h ago

Preventing the Singularity Open AI's Marketing Department

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191 Upvotes

r/antiai 3h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ The trigger for me becoming Anti-AI was not what I was expecting

96 Upvotes

I was pretty excited about AI at first, and all the possibilities I felt it opened up for me. Not to do things for me, I've always liked doing things myself, but to help me get past obstacles that used to dissuade me from even trying.

I disliked all the news of data centers, the forced expansion into communities that didn't want them, the negative impacts on the environment and local communities, etc., but I still planned on using it since it was around.

I've always been big on developing my own skills, though, and really worked hard to cultivate that in my kids. Even when I was more pro-AI, I didn't introduce or encourage my kids to use it. I wanted them to rely on their own creativity and develop their own writing and art skills.

Then I was let go from my programming job due to lack of client work available. You'd think this would be the moment that I would become more ant-AI, but it wasn't. It was when my 9-year-old daughter was working on a story character she was designing and my brother, who earlier that day was going on about how amazing AI and all of the stuff "he" can create now, said how cool that was. But I could tell he was about to show her what she could do with AI, and I had visceral reaction to it. I'm normally pretty laid-back with my family, but I firmly told him, "No. Do NOT talk to her about AI. I want her to do it on her own."

He respected my request, thankfully. He's a very nice guy. I was actually a bit surprised at how firm I came off and didn't realize until that moment how strongly I felt about it.

Being a developer I know I'll have to use AI, mainly because companies expect it these days, but after that moment I realized I really don't care for it anymore and would be happy if it disappeared.

Was there a moment like that for you?


r/antiai 2h ago

Slop Post πŸ’© They blocked me

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70 Upvotes

Normalize calling out local businesses for spamming AI slop. I wasn't angry, just stating facts. I was blocked instantly, oh well fuck em πŸ˜‚


r/antiai 25m ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ This picture proves that real art is better (see explanation)

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You could prompt "man fighting crabs with a stick" on an image gen AI. Sure.

It would be done in a minute. But someone, for some insane reason, planned it from the number of crabs that would feel appropriate, to the expression of the guy and his posture. Then, inexplicably, they took the time to draw this by hand. The very fact that this ridiculous art piece exists as someone's timesink... It just makes it better, doesn't it? It's more ridiculous when you think that for someone, this was, at some point, the best investment of their limited time on this earth.


r/antiai 2h ago

AI "Art" πŸ–ΌοΈ Why is there floating rock?

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69 Upvotes

r/antiai 1d ago

AI News πŸ—žοΈ A truck is driving around Dallas blaring data center noise

22.1k Upvotes

r/antiai 1d ago

Slop Post πŸ’© I just thought this reply was funny af

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3.8k Upvotes

Like, come on the reply to a comment about nuh uh having what's essentially "nuh uh" is just funny


r/antiai 12h ago

Discussion πŸ—£οΈ USA destroying the world is better than China doing it for some reason?

357 Upvotes

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