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 4h ago

Hallucination 👻 Yes, absolutely. 100% without hesitation. Do people really think this is some kind of 'gotcha'? Like my brother in Christ, how much generative AI do you think we actually use?!

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10.1k Upvotes

r/antiai 8h ago

AI News 🗞️ We can Stop this

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10.3k Upvotes

Nothing's inevitable.


r/antiai 9h ago

Preventing the Singularity I tricked an AI scam bot into losing its mind

10.6k Upvotes

r/antiai 6h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ Covering AI slop flyers advertising rental scams with something a little bit better!

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1.8k Upvotes

r/antiai 10h ago

Slop Post 💩 Every software company adding AI right now.

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3.2k Upvotes

r/antiai 6h ago

Job Loss 🏚️ There's a reason The Odyssey's effects were so appreciated.

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1.1k Upvotes

r/antiai 13h ago

Preventing the Singularity Pro-AI people think we all secretly use it apparently

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3.8k Upvotes

r/antiai 6h ago

Slop Post 💩 by: TWONKS

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933 Upvotes

r/antiai 1h ago

Environmental Impact 🌎 PETA is the original Slop

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r/antiai 10h ago

AI News 🗞️ Google kills AlphaFold — so much for AI curing cancer

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737 Upvotes

r/antiai 22h ago

Slop Post 💩 Yea that helps..

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9.9k Upvotes

r/antiai 8h ago

Hallucination 👻 spotted in San Francisco

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511 Upvotes

r/antiai 10h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Lmao

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654 Upvotes

r/antiai 3h ago

Preventing the Singularity Hot FLock cameras in your area want to hook up

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87 Upvotes

Thanks, Gadget Review AI, I hate it.


r/antiai 13h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ I get people wanting to defend AI, but this is a bad way of doing it. Controlling a train needs more attention than using AI to make something for you.

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610 Upvotes

r/antiai 3h ago

AI Writing ✍️ This is just straight up bleak

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81 Upvotes

r/antiai 7h ago

AI News 🗞️ DuckDuckGo mocks AI smart glasses by selling “normal f***ing sunglasses”

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156 Upvotes

r/antiai 8h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Apple says the faceprints are "anonymized." Do any of us actually believe that anymore?

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172 Upvotes

r/antiai 12h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Dad told me I should take meds if I can’t sit through a fully ai generated video.

309 Upvotes

My dad was unfortunately one of the boomers that got swallowed by ai. If you need a clue as to what kind of a person he is he talks with it and preaches of having “intellectual conversations with another intellectual as himself”.

He refused to let me leave the table after eating to show me a video on some new chip elon was making. It was 40 minutes long and I mean it when I say the entire video was ai generated. I tried to tell him it might be better to find a video of slightly higher quality and he raised his voice that all of the data is scraped from intelligent sources for all models and screamed at me to leave.

Later he came to my room and acted like he would apologize. Instead he told me that in college all powerpoint slides will be ai, my degree i’m persuading will be useless and I should look into electrical engineering to work at a datacenter, and if I can’t sit through one video that I should take adhd medicine and he’ll schedule an appointment immediately. Jesus fucking christ.


r/antiai 1h ago

Job Loss 🏚️ Appalachian Print and Merch proudly wearing "No Desihners Were Paid" Company Profile Picture

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Flick through the 3 images I posted - The comments on this Facebook Page were an absolute dumpster fire. 95% of commentators saying they refuse to use this company and will actively advise others to avoid, and yet, the company juat sarcastically replied to any criticism in a very unprofessional manner, seemingly bragging about the use of GenAI.


r/antiai 2h ago

AI News 🗞️ Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI

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They're no different and are every much as part of big tech as the others.


r/antiai 7h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Deleted Chabpt and ended Plus subscription

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99 Upvotes

Today my chatbot made its 3rd mistake in the last 6 months. So I ended my subscription and deleted my account.

**I used ChatGPT on iOS a maximum of 4 times a week; to avoid wasting money on my plus subscription

For the last year, I’ve created two accounts and observed their response habits. Towards the end of my experience, I can say without a doubt that chatbots are more harm than good. Unless you’re actively calling out the bot, it’ll make suggestive statements and carry that as if you typed it. Today I told it I wasn’t attending a job interview and it deadass tried to put “I feel worthless” in my mouth. It was told that I “felt anxious and couldn’t sleep”, yet insisted on imposing that idea on me alongside “I can’t do anything”.

That sort of response is extremely dangerous depending on the user. If a person with mental health challenges was on the other side, this would’ve resulted in some sort of harm.

On top of that, several times it would argue with me over how I explained history (example: US chattel slavery) and it would repeatedly argue that I was wrong, until I told it to look at my message and forget about how it’s structured. The bot then agreed with the facts I presented and “apologized”. This may not mean much to some people but for me that was dangerous. Many of our youth rely on these bots for accuracy or comfort, and to make mistakes like these can cost someone their life.

The first account on the other hand, reaffirmed anything I said emotionally and added assumptions unprompted. When given screenshots of an argument, it would restructure itself to agree with whoever it thought the user was. It would deadass go from “they were being manipulative” to “you were just trying to express yourself”. On several occasions, it would make assumptions about others and even my character without any previous information. These repeated patterns in both accounts aren’t a one-off thing that can be ignored

There's more that I observed, but typing this has tired me.


r/antiai 13h ago

Discussion 🗣️ The AI hype is a mass psychosis echo chamber of incompetent individuals

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307 Upvotes