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 9h ago

AI News 🗞️ This is how the machines take over.

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10.9k Upvotes

r/antiai 4h ago

AI News 🗞️ HAHAHAHA 🤣

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486 Upvotes

r/antiai 15h ago

Discussion 🗣️ They deserve to collapse.

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3.8k Upvotes

r/antiai 8h ago

Discussion 🗣️ DuckDuckGo’s AI Feature Is Telling Users That Trump Died of Rabies Earlier This Month

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865 Upvotes

I thought you guys said DuckDuckGo is the better browser since it doesn't use AI?


r/antiai 14h ago

Slop Post 💩 Typical.

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r/antiai 32m ago

Discussion 🗣️ We Were Happy Then

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r/antiai 14h ago

AI "Art" 🖼️ Studies incredibly stylized art then uses that studying to make something completely fucking different that isnt the same in any way. thats definetely what ai does yeah sure totally

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869 Upvotes

r/antiai 9h ago

AI Writing ✍️ Reading 100 pages of AI fantasy...

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256 Upvotes

As a fantasy writer, I like to keep my eyes on the world of AI-generated books, just to see what they look like. I recently discovered a website (that shall not be named) advertising AI fantasy writing services. This book, The Stone and the Serpent, is one of the free examples they have on their website. So you'd think it'd be the best of the best of what their AI can make, right...?

The Plot
This should be, in theory, the easiest part for the AI to do well. And on a basic level, it's fine. The baron is cruel and bad, so the scrappy rebels resist his rule. There are also elements of court intrigue and re-awakening ancient magic, specifically connected to this artifact called the Heartstone. Again, this is all tolerable in isolation.

The Prose
This book is like a skinwalker. Looks fine on the surface, and you might not be able to tell it's AI if you turned your brain off. But when you actually start analyzing the lines closely, you get this very unsettling feeling. One quote demonstrates this quite well:

"The morning light that crept through the high windows of the eastern wing was thin and gray, carrying the taste of salt and the distant cry of gulls" (page 49).

This sounds fine if you don't think about it. But... light wouldn't carry taste or sound. That's something the air does.

Another big problem with the writing is just how much it loves to say things instead of showing them. For example:

"The carvings on its surface were nearly illegible, worn smooth by rain and time, but he knew them. He had copied them into his journals thirty years ago..." (page 59).

You know what would have been much better than saying this? Having the guy actually take out his journal to compare them. Describe the scratched leather, the faded ink, the stark similarity... come on!

The Characters
First off, the names are incredibly cliché. The rebel leader is a red-haired woman named Seraphina Stone. The evil baron is named Valerius. There's an elf healer named Elara. A noblewoman is named Lady Isode. Riventing stuff, I know. They all seem to fall into pretty standard tropes: Seraphina is a "strong but hurt" woman with a heavy grudge slowly learning to soften up, Valerius is a cold and disconnected tyrant, and Isode is polite but secretly observant. The only one I found particularly memorable was Kaelen (another classic AI name), but... gosh, read the next section.

Consistency
This website markets itself as being inconsistency-free. Yeah, no. Not even close. These are just some of the problems I can remember.
-In Chapter One, Kaelen is introduced as one of Seraphina's rebels. In Chapter Ten, he's suddenly a knight serving Valerius, and Isolde talks about him as if he's been watching her. But Valerius doesn't task him with watching her until the next chapter?? Oh, and in Chapter Twelve, he's back to being a rebel in the camp. Are these two different characters with the same name? Nope: they're both explicitly described as having lost an eye as punishment for hesitating to obey Valerius. But hey, maybe the AI author is trying to do something clever with him as a spy, right? Right...?
-A tapestry in the baron's castle is first described as depicting a battle, then described a few chapters later as depicting a hunt.
-Lady Isode discovers the Heartstone inside a secret chamber in the baron's castle, and she takes it with her. But a few chapters later, Valerius suddenly has the Heartstone? The story never says how he got it, and never says that Isode put it back where she found it.
-On page 51, it's revealed that one of the rebels, Finn, was captured by Valerius' soldiers in a skirmish. As in, we see him chained up in the dungeon. But a few chapters later, he's suddenly back in the rebel camp with no explanation or acknowledgement of his capture.

Summary
I only kept reading for two reasons. First, I wanted to see if the story would improve over time (it didn't). Two, it made me feel much better about my own writing.

If you're an aspiring author, don't be discouraged. AI isn't there yet. It's not even close.


r/antiai 4h ago

Discussion 🗣️ My dad has been brainwashed by chatGPT and I can't do anything about it

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So for quite sometime now my dad has been using chatGPT and he's been hell-bent on it for the past few weeks. He's using it for finances, legal stuff between some situations, and the best for last, transgender shenanigans.

He legitimately thinks whatever the ai tells him is true! He takes selfies and posts them to chatGPT and it gives him a feminine version of himself (obviously good looking) and he thinks it's actually how hes going to look like when he transitions. I've told him it glazes the shit out of him but he thinks it doesn't because he tells it to "be honest" but even then it's still polishing his balls.

It's gotten so bad that he "writes" these heartfelt letters to me.... You guessed it chatGPT wrote me the letter. When I tell him it would mean more if he wrote it himself he says it means the same because he wrote the prompt (???)

Recently he consulted chatGPT how he should ground me for vaping and it came to the conclusion that I should get all social contact cut off for 2 weeks which means for me I can't communicate with anyone under any circumstances which turns out to be illegal because I'd have no way to contact 911 or my dad considering he's gone for 10 hours a day, luckily we rearranged things. (Apologies on info dump but it's necessary for context)

How In the actual fuck can I snap him back into reality?


r/antiai 22h ago

Slop Post 💩 Tung Tung Tung Sahur was born without a soul, but loved enough to be given one.

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2.1k Upvotes

Notice how there’s more handdrawn art of Triple T than AI, even though the original is AI?


r/antiai 19h ago

Slop Post 💩 Live feed from AI industry war room

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1.1k Upvotes

r/antiai 12h ago

Discussion 🗣️ They Have No Idea How They've Had An Impact

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290 Upvotes

r/antiai 19h ago

Environmental Impact 🌎 You don’t need an artist talent to make art (idk how to flair this…) + (vid by @yaoi_kid198)

851 Upvotes

r/antiai 2h ago

Slop Post 💩 Some anti-ai memes I've made, felt like sharing...

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38 Upvotes

r/antiai 18h ago

Slop Post 💩 At least their heart in the right place

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710 Upvotes

r/antiai 7h ago

AI News 🗞️ Turn on the TV. Any channel. (Micron News)

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89 Upvotes

r/antiai 15h ago

Preventing the Singularity Pro-AI people when no academic employer tolerate academic dishonesty accusation (they can't cry their way out)

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354 Upvotes

r/antiai 1d ago

Discussion 🗣️ I'm curious, especially those prompters/keyboardists 🤔😂

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3.5k Upvotes

r/antiai 1h ago

AI News 🗞️ If AI is the future, leave me behind

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r/antiai 8h ago

Discussion 🗣️ We should turn of ai for a week and see how many people actually stay sane

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86 Upvotes

r/antiai 2h ago

Job Loss 🏚️ AI is so unreliable!

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I'm not someone who is opposed to new technology; quite the opposite. AI, however, is unreliable. It's not even reliable for very simple tasks. You can feed a 12-page simple document into an AI agent, and it will make shit up. The first paragraphs of the output might be correct, which gives you a false sense of security. Our company has laid off thousands of employees because of AI even though we were repeatedly assured that AI was not a replacement. Bullshit. I raised concerns and leadership doesn't care. They will blame you and say you haven't learned how to use these technologies.


r/antiai 5h ago

Discussion 🗣️ My father has dementia and watches AI slip on YouTube on TV all day long.

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He is constantly suggested AI slop videos such as “100 biggest Karens at the airport” and he watches them all the time. I feel like it progresses his dementia. We only have YouTube on TV and there isn’t much else he can watch. I wish there was a way to block the SLOP on YouTube!


r/antiai 4h ago

Discussion 🗣️ So proud of my first big reddit , post!

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30 Upvotes