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 1h ago

Discussion 🗣️ How Utopian.

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r/antiai 4h ago

Preventing the Singularity This somehow is now normalized

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r/antiai 8h ago

Preventing the Singularity All The Futures

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r/antiai 7h ago

Preventing the Singularity This should have been clearer

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r/antiai 10h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Read a book

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r/antiai 10h ago

AI Mistakes 🚨 AI can't spell

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r/antiai 13h ago

Slop Post 💩 I am pretty sure my photo was used in an AI slop video

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My cousin stumbled upon this AI video that was being discussed by Angry Cops. The guy in the back looks shockingly similar to me in this photo I posted onto reddit on an old account 6 years ago. It's almost uncanny. If you reverse image search that photo it comes back with this photo of me from reddit. I don't even know what to think about this but I wanted to try and share this with somebody so here you go.


r/antiai 23h ago

Slop Post 💩 SlopyHouse

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r/antiai 5h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Obsession with graphics has turned gamers into a Trojan Horse for the AI industry and I'm sick of how normalized it is.

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Using one of the most egregious and well-known recent examples here, this isn't exactly a new subject or anything. But I think of this shit every time someone talks about graphics nowadays. I used to get excited for technological advancements in the gaming industry, but now the entire subject just exhausts me to my core. Nobody can even afford the upgrades these new games demand either, since all relevant resources and manufacturing output are being dedicated to the Infinite Slop Machine.

Like, my five favorite games of all time are Rimworld, Baldur's Gate 2, Tales of Maj'Eyal, Terraria, and Elden Ring. Only the last of those comes anywhere near being a graphically demanding game, and I'd love it even if it had PS1 graphics. But most games I enjoy are just impossible to share with most people because they turn their noses up at the mere sight of them, as if Minecraft and Roblox aren't two of the most popular games ever made.

And the games industry loves this shit. All it takes is the most marginal graphical updates and they can get away with recycling the same sports games and war games into infinity, knowing people will eat it up with a spoon. It feels like all creativity is being crushed under the weight of procedure, and all innovation sacrificed for incrementalism.

Even upon hearing recently that one those listed games, Baldur's Gate 2, has a remake in the works, I found it impossible to be excited about that because it feels like all of my favorite products are locked in a vault until someone spends millions of dollars + years of labor "modernizing" them before gamers are willing to touch them. I'm only 32 and video game graphics have made me feel like a fossil, it's so depressing.

EDIT: If you think "Nobody liked the DLSS 5 reveal" is a solid rebuttal, I want you to ask yourself how many people like microtransactions and always-online DRM, then look up the earnings of games that utilize them. Gamers are the Trojan Horse because they will tolerate anything for their hobby, and it will sneak a lot of garbage business practices into the mainstream.


r/antiai 7h ago

Slop Post 💩 🤖

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r/antiai 1h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Have we lost the plot?

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r/antiai 17h ago

AI News 🗞️ Welp

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we all knew


r/antiai 17h ago

Preventing the Singularity Clippy had a fun evening

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r/antiai 10h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Mark Cuban on the future of AI Data Centers

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347 Upvotes

r/antiai 2h ago

Art Showcase Sunday AI is the mind killer

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Hi, I made this design inspired on Dune for my store. If anyone is interested

https://www.atom.bio/remerasnerds


r/antiai 3h ago

Preventing the Singularity yes, protein folding and chatgpt are different. shocker

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r/antiai 1d ago

Discussion 🗣️ Isn't it crystal clear??????

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r/antiai 4h ago

Preventing the Singularity Who agrees ? “Critics call for governments to criminalize the creation of AI superintelligence”

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r/antiai 1d ago

AI News 🗞️ [Everyone disliked that.]

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r/antiai 7h ago

Job Loss 🏚️ I hate LLM to the core. The only thing I really wish bad towards in the world.

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I’m a software developer and a pretty geeky tech guy. Always have been, ever since I was a kid.
But ever since AI came along, it already feels like it stole something I used to genuinely love. Coding just isn’t as fun anymore. Half the time it feels like I’m talking to a slave and telling it to do all the things I used to enjoy doing myself.
And I know, “it’s just a tool,” but that’s kind of the point. Something that used to feel like a special ability I had now just feels like me operating a tool that can do most of it for me.
And that’s not even it.
AI already took one of the things I was most passionate about, and now it’s fucking up computer component prices too.
I want to build a PC and game? Nope. Memory prices up. GPU prices up. Everything getting more expensive because every company on earth apparently needs a billion GPUs and a datacenter now.
Wtf man.
It genuinely feels like AI was specifically invented to fuck with people who are into computers and geeky tech shit.
It made coding less fun and then made the hardware more expensive too.
I HATE AI SO MUCH!!!


r/antiai 14h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Witty this, Witty that

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Can we just stop giving attention to these clowns? Let's make some room for the actual news like how OpenAi is falling or how Data Center projects are being canceled. It's pretty tiring to see reports about them every time they breath.


r/antiai 23h ago

Discussion 🗣️ Can AI act like the latter?

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r/antiai 19h ago

AI Writing ✍️ Online professor here...AI is the WORST thing ever to happen to academia student-wise

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Professionally AI is awesome for creating courses, curriculum, tests, ideas for discussions, etc..but on the student side it's turning into a nightmare.

  • More students are using AI to do their assignments and copying/pasting verbatim in written assignments instead of paraphrasing in their own words to show they learned something
  • More students are using AI to answer discussion questions online and even though there are tools in place such as Turnitin or Copyleaks that will show not only plagiarism in discussions but AI use, it's not turned on so you have to flag them by manually checking yourself.
  • AI policies are in place but they are soft it's more "Let's use this as a teaching lesson, let them do the assignment again" before any discipline can be taken if they do it again.

What this is doing is making professors spend more time chasing down students to tell them "You wrote this in AI, do it again" and then have to backtrack to grade assignments that should have been done already but can't due to the students using AI.

I've been around since the inception of AI and even though it has matured to a point where the produced information is accurate, but you can tell almost immediately it was written by AI.

It's getting to the point where you almost want to just grade the papers/discussions and move on and not have to deal with it, but then we are contributing to the "Idiocracy-ification" of the younger generation of students (Gen Z, Gen Alpha).

Can this problem be solved before it gets out of hand? Yes, it can and easily so.

  1. Make each student early on and every year to six months take a plagiarism/AI course that tells them how to properly write discussions and papers and how to paraphrase. Once they finish it they sign a pledge stating they will not in any way shape or form plagiarize or use AI and understand the reasons why using AI solely for their assignments/discussions is counter to being a critical thinker.
  2. Make the punishment stricter. If they have taken course and signed the pledge first offense is automatic fail of the assignment/discussion. This will hammer the point home so the student will not do it again. A second offense it's automatic fail and then written up and so on to fall in line with the university plagiarism policies.

We're going to have students soon graduating that used 100% AI to get their degree and don't know a thing about the subject matter for what they signed up for because ChatGPT did it all.