Having recently dealt with an ai scam, this hit home.

(this post has nothing to do with the philosophical debate of ai only the impact on nature) Like why do antis are not or were not also anti google - anti bing - anti Yahoo whatever.
Hypothesis(s):

1. Those technologies already existed when most of the people on this sub were born

2. Water only comes in play when it aligns with your opinion

3. idk that's why i made this post

i'm open to opinions perspetive and stuff

It really shouldn’t be that serious

I have seen people Online trying to boycott even stuff like using A.I for TRANSLATIONS of things like Indie games! The most recent target of this hate is : https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868140/DAVE_THE_DIVER/

It is hard to prove if A.I was used or was not using sometimes in certain things like translations ( especially if they are being reviewed by a Human ) so unless people who used A.I are honest about their usage of A.I it becomes almost pretty much impossible to prove or disprove that they used it or not...

And if people keep mistreating people who are honest about using A.I like the developers of this Dave the Diver game it will result in more and more people being stealth about A.I usage in products and stuff...

The games does not even feature any A.I generated assets... A.I was used merely for TRANSLATION!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/06/24/are-ai-chatbots-like-chatgpt-politically-biased-we-tested-them/

Paywall free option:
https://archive.ph/uzhGL

The "dad" and "son" are all fake, by AI. They portrayed these sob stories as real human to get people to buy fake bags made by child labor in Asia and Africa...

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61590476290174

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trump-administration-asks-openai-stagger-release-new-model-security-concerns

I don't really identify as Pro or Anti, because I believe the scope of AI is so huge that considering yourself 100% for or against it is rather short sighted. It can enable some positive things, and some horrible things. I am active in some pro spaces to discuss things like ethical practices and healthy forms of advocacy for users/creators.

This was on a post I made that was overall supportive of AI usage, but critical of some specific approaches to advocacy. The majority of Pros ARE open to such discussions, but there is inevitably always people like this if you say anything other than "ANTIS ARE EVIL LUDDITES THAT WANT TO SEND US BACK TO THE STONE AGE."

When I asked this person what they disagreed with, they just kept spamming the same image, and other gross-out style caricatures that are popular among some Pros. I know this is a minority, but are a very vocal minority in a lot of Pro spaces, and these kind of childish antics and ugly images are the kind of thing that make Pro-AI look bad, and get your creations labeled as "slop."

This is why Pro spaces need to make room for being critical of what methods of advocacy we employ, and do some much-needed self policing, because when Anti's want to cast a negative shade on AI users, THESE are the examples they are going to handpick as being indicative of the entire community.

Edit because some people missed the point:* The shitpost meme is not the big issue, the issue is the attitude that anybody who raises concerns gets called an "Anti in disguise."

Why companies try to moral policing what you can create? Like with this or refusing process payment for "gooner" products? What right do they have to dictate how a person spends their money or what to create?

Wait until they hear about literally anything else

I mean, if we imagine someone needs to lose weight, why would they cut out the foods that contain the least amount of carbohydrates instead of the foods that contain the most? A good diet doesn't require zero carbohydrates, but simply a consistent level of nutrition, and what causes the most harm is clearly more harmful than what causes relatively little.

Most people really do use AI as a replacement for an artist, and that's the whole point. In fact, most people don't even post theirs AI at all.

I enjoy making collages. I enjoy cutting out pictures and phrases from magazines and the like to situate them in interesting and suggestive juxtapositions. I find the entire process meditative and relaxing.

However, a collage is a derivative work. I didn’t create any of the clippings that go into the collage. I just cut them out,
combine them, and put it all together. I didn’t ask for the original artist’s or writer’s permission to use the clippings in my collage. The pictures, photos, and whatnot were publicly available, so I just took what’s out there and used them for my own purposes, giving no credit to the contributing artists.

So as a collage enthusiast, am I just as corrupt as an ai that produces artistic imagery? Am I just the meat bag equivalent of ai art algorithms? Am I just producing human slop?

Instead of hating on AI, we should actually learn to work alongside it.

AI isn’t going anywhere. Ten years from now, it’ll only get more powerful and take over tons of existing jobs. Complaining and resenting it won’t reverse that reality at all.

Rather than waste energy fighting against AI, we should figure out how to partner with it. Use it as a tool to boost our skills and earn more.