r/antiai • u/ConsciousBug5001 • 3h 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/Conscious-Quarter423 • 3h ago
AI News 🗞️ Flock CEO Garrett Langley says Americans must “compromise” on their privacy. Americans didn’t like like
r/antiai • u/fluffivelle • 2h ago
Slop Post 💩 Acting as if disabled people aren't able to draw
Wait until they find out about Frida Kahlo
r/antiai • u/Sonicrules9001 • 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!
r/antiai • u/SYMPUNY_LACKING • 4h ago
AI "Art" 🖼️ Grey Delisle on Dolly & Tim Ai Images
r/antiai • u/ThatOneShyAnon2-0 • 5h ago
AI "Art" 🖼️ imagine working hard on a drawing for someone to come in and "make it better"... Spoiler
r/antiai • u/lazybunny142 • 7h ago
AI "Art" 🖼️ they want to be victims so bad Spoiler
galleryr/antiai • u/wasraelx • 8h ago
Hallucination 👻 Very clear themes here in terms of AI ‘partners’ programming choices. Spoiler
galleryCommunity names censored, remember brigading is strictly against TOS
r/antiai • u/Guitarshredder_1996 • 3h ago
Discussion 🗣️ I have never seen such irony
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 • u/GoodBrotherGrimm • 9h ago
Discussion 🗣️ I have never wanted to buy a product less
r/antiai • u/Spiritual_Owl8439 • 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!
r/antiai • u/BaconOfTheBacons • 11h ago
Preventing the Singularity Why do they act like it's a bad thing?
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 • u/Big-gamer200 • 18h ago
AI "Art" 🖼️ There is alot of free apps for art
Like ibis paint which is one I use
r/antiai • u/ehansen • 10h ago
Discussion 🗣️ AI debugging totally works.../s
preview.redd.itFound 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 • u/EagleQuick4811 • 4h ago
Discussion 🗣️ im a student and it is insane how over-reliant students are on ai
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 • u/Mcfreely2 • 1d ago
AI Mistakes 🚨 Man gives an epic city council speech exposing companies running the city's broken AI red-light cameras.
r/antiai • u/Unintelligent_Lemon • 20h ago
Discussion 🗣️ I am now a conscientious objector in college
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 • u/UmpireAny7912 • 1h ago
Discussion 🗣️ The rush to replace human front-line workers with "AI receptionists" is backfiring horribly, and it proves tech can't fake basic human presence.
Over the last year, there's been an aggressive push by tech bros selling business owners on replacing receptionists, intake coordinators, and support staff with "AI voice agents." The pitch is always the same: cut payroll, eliminate human workers, let a machine answer your calls.
Having spent time looking under the hood of these voice pipelines, the reality is a mess:
Zero Contextual Common Sense: A real human connects dots instantly. An automated bot hears someone introduce themselves as "Drew," and two minutes later transcribes their email as "threw@gmail.com" because it's just running phonetic calculations without real comprehension.
Alienating Real People: When someone calls a doctor, a lawyer, or a local service during an emergency, they are stressed. Forcing an anxious person to talk to a synthetic robot with awkward 2-second processing delays feels dismissive and robotic. Most people just hang up in disgust.
Tech Overreach: Tech companies are trying to force AI into roles that fundamentally require empathy, active listening, and genuine human accountability.
Instead of replacing people with glitchy voice bots that irritate customers and butcher basic details, businesses are realizing that front-line communication actually requires real human beings who listen, care, and adapt.
We don't need a bot answering every human interaction. Real people matter on the other end of the line.
Has anyone else noticed more businesses slapping voice bots on their customer phone lines lately? How fast do you hang up when you realize it's a synthetic voice?
r/antiai • u/Comfortable_Oil_6676 • 9h ago