There needs to be a non algorithm controlled area if the web again. As much as I love social media....the trough has gone stagnant. Sharing art in the giant crapstorm has become not fun anymore. It feels like "nobody's home" I've been enjoying reading blogs on glitch because its like I have to fish around and people there tend to list a few people they like there. Reminds me of when the internet was kind of "word of mouth." I have no idea if any of the current technocrats are capable of understanding that....but it feels overdue. The internet needs a offramp where stuff is still human curated...and created. The demand is there...the problem is tech doesn't serve customers anymore...just investors...and the monopolies are so powerful its like a "where else you gonna go?" situation. I kind of feel the social network era ending and maybe that's not a horrible thing. It's going to take a powerful mass shift to send the signal though...because chronically online people drive the algorithms and muddy the water for the rest of us. I don't think for a second that the "defending AI" subreddit is representative of the general public.. it's just that they are pinging the algorithms enough to make it seem like they have more influence than they do. I think eventually they'll go touch grass and the tech moguls will finally notice the dip. I think in the meantime we gotta outwait the idiocy, and that sucks. Best thing I can think of right now us to curate your feeds, glaze your work, and connect with human artists? Answer from TheUrchinator on reddit.com
Reddit
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Anti AI
April 11, 2015 - r/antiai: A recently resurrected and growing community for critical discussion on advancements in artificial intelligence. Now reopened to the public.
Medium
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Ableism in the Anti-AI Movement: The Overlooked Neurodivergent Perspective | by Daisy Thomas | Medium
June 22, 2024 - The discourse surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) is multifaceted and polarizing, with opinions spanning from enthusiastic endorsement to vehement opposition. However, a concerning trend within the anti-AI rhetoric is the subtle, and sometimes overt, ableism directed towards neurodivergent individuals who have found more robust ways to communicate and interact through AI technologies.
Videos
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Why are many pushing back against AI? | The Stream - YouTube
What does “anti-AI" mean?
Anti-AI refers to an opposition to the training, deployment or usage of artificial intelligence tools. People with anti-AI attitudes may be motivated by a wide variety of potential risk factors, like the violation of copyright laws, the usage of lethal autonomous weapons or a fear of a superintelligent AI exterminating the human race.
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Anti-AI Explained: Why Resistance to Artificial Intelligence Is ...
Why are people against AI?
People are against AI because it may eliminate jobs, spread disinformation and amplify societal biases. Creative professionals are opposed to their work being used to train a technology that aims to displace them, and human rights groups are worried about its potential role in mass surveillance and autonomous lethal weapons. People may have concerns about the way AI is being trained and used without opposing the technology itself.
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Anti-AI Explained: Why Resistance to Artificial Intelligence Is ...
Can AI be regulated without stopping innovation?
AI is a complex topic to regulate, but it’s possible to create guidelines that don’t halt innovation. The European Union’s AI Act may require additional transparency, documentation, governance and oversight, for example, but these regulations also provide legal certainty and could increase public trust in AI technologies. European companies may be at a relative disadvantage against American companies, though, as the U.S. has not adopted federal AI regulations. This is why AI safety experts advocate for international cooperation in AI regulation.
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The Guardian
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Robots sacked, screenings shut down: a new movement of luddites is rising up against AI | Ed Newton-Rex | The Guardian
April 2, 2025 - Some members of the anti-AI movement have reclaimed the name “luddites”. I come from tech circles, where luddite is considered an insult – but this new movement is proud of the designation. As Brian Merchant, author of Blood in the Machine, points out, the original luddites did not ...
Wikipedia
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PauseAI - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - PauseAI is a global political movement founded in the Netherlands with the stated aim of achieving global coordination to stop the development of more powerful general artificial intelligence systems, at least until it is known how to build them safely, and keep them under democratic control.
Reddit
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r/ArtistHate on Reddit: How do we build an Anti-AI movement? 🤔
November 6, 2024 -
Judging from the public's universal hatred for things like the AI-generated Coca Cola Christmas ad, my feeling is that there is a "silent majority" out there who hate AI (particularly AI art).
The problem is outside of small internet communities like this and prominent figures speaking out, there doesn't really seem to be an organized movement pushing against the proliferation of harmful AI.
Just throwing this out there. How do we bring more people to our side? Are there specific ideas anyone has to grow the movement?
I think, ethical issues aside, a world where everything is AI is just f***ing boring. I think a lot of people would agree with that sentiment. But how do we create a world that values humanity and creativity?
This really intersects with every aspect of life you can think of; being anti-AI is essentially being anti- technocratic monopolies destroying all aspects of our life. (generally speaking; I think AI could be useful in medicine and some other areas)
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I have no idea but I truly believe like 80% of people (if not more) really hate AI - at least the images and text that are obvious to them. We are so used to being frustrated by technology these days because so much of the internet is scammy and untrustworthy and AI makes that problem worse and people don't like it.
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There needs to be a non algorithm controlled area if the web again. As much as I love social media....the trough has gone stagnant. Sharing art in the giant crapstorm has become not fun anymore. It feels like "nobody's home" I've been enjoying reading blogs on glitch because its like I have to fish around and people there tend to list a few people they like there. Reminds me of when the internet was kind of "word of mouth." I have no idea if any of the current technocrats are capable of understanding that....but it feels overdue. The internet needs a offramp where stuff is still human curated...and created. The demand is there...the problem is tech doesn't serve customers anymore...just investors...and the monopolies are so powerful its like a "where else you gonna go?" situation. I kind of feel the social network era ending and maybe that's not a horrible thing. It's going to take a powerful mass shift to send the signal though...because chronically online people drive the algorithms and muddy the water for the rest of us. I don't think for a second that the "defending AI" subreddit is representative of the general public.. it's just that they are pinging the algorithms enough to make it seem like they have more influence than they do. I think eventually they'll go touch grass and the tech moguls will finally notice the dip. I think in the meantime we gotta outwait the idiocy, and that sucks. Best thing I can think of right now us to curate your feeds, glaze your work, and connect with human artists?
NYTimes
nytimes.com › 2025 › 12 › 29 › opinion › ai-democracy.html
Opinion | An Anti-A.I. Movement Is Coming. Which Party Will Lead It? - The New York Times
1 day ago - I disagree with the anti-immigrant, anti-feminist, bitterly reactionary right-wing pundit Matt Walsh about basically everything, so I was surprised to come across a post of his that precisely sums up my view of artificial intelligence. “We’re sleepwalking into a dystopia that any rational person can see from miles away,” he wrote in November, adding, “Are we really just going to lie down and let AI take everything from us?”
Pro-human
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Rise of The 'Anti-AI' Movement - Neal Moore | Pro-Human
July 28, 2024 - It tells us that, like with food for our bodies, we distrust artificial ingredients and have a right to know what goes into the food for our minds. That's why I have donated to the Not By AI movement and downloaded one of their badges for my ...
Built In
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Anti-AI Explained: Why Resistance to Artificial Intelligence Is Growing | Built In
The anti-AI movement opposes artificial intelligence due to numerous concerns, such as the spread of disinformation, elimination of jobs, violation of copyright laws and AI’s potential use in mass surveillance or autonomous weapons.
Published August 6, 2025
MinnPost
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The anti-AI movement is dangerously misguided
July 28, 2025 - I saw parallels between the AI craze and other failed Silicon Valley experiments: blockchain, the metaverse, and more. How could companies break even, given the tremendous cost of training models and building data centers? Where was the economic value? What was the environmental cost? This skepticism is becoming increasingly common, even as debates over the technology have not fully broken into the mainstream. It seems likely that anti-AI sentiment — rather than AI optimism — will become the default position over the next few years, and I expect calls to limit or ban AI development to become a political rallying cry.
Stop Killer Robots
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Stop Killer Robots – Less Autonomy, More humanity.
The role of the tech community in resisting the weaponisation of AI.
Forbes
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‘Human Intelligence’ Art Movement Takes Defiant Stand Against AI
August 27, 2024 - Procrastinating on her work as a book illustrator one day, Beth Spencer picked up an iPad and sketched a red hand jotting the words “created with human intelligence.” She’d seen a lot of concerned chatter about AI among fellow artists on Instagram, and she figured she’d post the drawing to her website to emphasize that everything visitors see there originates with a blood-and-bone artist.
Medium
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The anti-ai movements unethical rhetoric and fetishization of slave labour | by Brecht Corbeel | Medium
August 17, 2023 - The anti-AI movement, a manifestation of these fears, is not merely an opposition to silicon circuits and algorithms. It’s a reflection of a deeper Neo-Luddism, a resistance that harks back to the days of the Industrial Revolution when machines first began to replace manual labour.
Inc
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Will There Be a Boom in Anti-AI, Human-Focused Startups?
May 30, 2025 - In 2025, the enemy is derivative AI, back then it was a cookie-cutter startup strategy that was leaving everyone in the dust outside of Silicon Valley and not building a business around mobile and social. ExitEvent was a movement, and an answer to a backlash, sure.
PauseAI
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We need to Pause AI
We are risking human extinction. We need to pause AI development, right now.
Jens Oliver Meiert
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How the Anti-AI Movement Hurts Itself (and What It Could Do Instead) · Jens Oliver Meiert
September 18, 2025 - Strong “yes” to AI criticism, strong “no” to anti-AI fanaticism.
Reddit
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r/graphic_design on Reddit: The Coming Anti-AI Movement - What are your thoughts about this? Do you see it?
November 12, 2025 -
(tweaked this as my original post was deleted by the mod) I am writing a video about the anti-AI movement. I wanted to start here because my job is a graphic design instructor and just read an article about how AI has already lost 33 percent of graphic design jobs in the last 2 years.
WOW. that sucks! I can feel it! As a top selling graphic design instructor my revenue has plummeting 60 percent this year due to less people interested in learning traditional graphic design skills, so my livelihood has been affected as well as most of my students. I feel like we are about to go to war over AI.
Also, coke did their entire holiday ad using AI tools. That sucks too.
There seems to be a movement brewing and I am noticing it with young people. An outright rejection of AI but also the chance for big AI boycotts coming to companies using AI.
This can be a massive movement and my hope is to really get it started. This would not be an Anti AI across the board (as there are some great uses for it) but when it comes to creativity there has to be boundaries on how fast this AI gets adapted into our societies. Half of us can lose our job who cares how productive it can make us?
I admit I have taught a few AI things because it was the only thing the course platforms I was on was promoting. I don't like teaching it. There are some "cool" moments when I realize that something in photoshop is a lot easier with AI but the tools that create full motion video or replaces photographers there is a line that needs to be drawn.
Starting here for my research as I am a graphic designer too and have been for 22 years. What are your thoughts on an Anti-AI movement. Are you seeing this developing? I see this bubbling to the surface and wanted to see if you guys feel it too. If so, what are some actions you want to see happen as a result of it? Just gathering direction and research for now. I already put over 100 hours of research into the topic but as one person, it is easy to get caught up in your own ideas of what might be going on and need perspective of others.
UPDATE: Glad I am doing my research here now. I echo a lot of what you are saying. I am going to give this topic some more time to develop. Thank you all!
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yall missing the point. AI can NOT create anything new. If you think design is simply moving pixels around, then yea AI will take your job. But, if you’re truly a creative, AI is just another tool and its mastery (or misuse) will separate the wheat from the chaff.
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AI is not that great, yeah we all know. Human creativity cant be matched blah blah blah. Tell that to the decision makers who call the shots. They dont know any better, nor do they care. I dont know how many times this needs to be said. Thats the problem.
Algorithmic Justice League
ajl.org
Algorithmic Justice League - Unmasking AI harms and biases
The Algorithmic Justice League’s mission is to raise awareness about the impacts of AI, equip advocates with empirical research, build the voice and choice of the most impacted communities, and galvanize researchers, policy makers, and industry practitioners to mitigate AI harms and biases.
Sean Goedecke
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Is using AI wrong? A review of six popular anti-AI arguments
Some people really, really don’t like AI. Broadly speaking, being anti-AI is a popular left-wing position: AI1 is cringe, it’s plagiarism, it’s stunting real growth, it’s killing the environment, it’s destroying the careers of artists and creatives, and so on.
CNN
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As AI gets more life-like, a new Luddite movement is taking root | CNN Business
October 8, 2025 - And that just might work, if working means keeping enough users hooked on the platform. But it’s also possible that generative AI images and chatbots further blur the line between reality and misinformation, fueling what has already become a backlash against the invasiveness of tech.
Bristol University Press
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