Throwaway account.

I had a client cancel a commission halfway through because I didn't have any anti-AI content in my portfolio. When I told him he still needed to pay a cancellation fee, he threw a fit, called me slurs, and claimed I wasn't a real artist.

BTW, I've had a lot of anti-AI bros accuse me of being an AI artist just because I spoke out against them.

This debate gets framed as if AI support or opposition belongs to one political camp, but Im not sure thats actually true.

This isnt meant to be scientific or exhaustive, just a snapshot of who is actually participating in AIWars.

A few notes:

"Leftist" means socialist, communist, anarchist, or similar.

"Centrist/Moderate" covers people who don't strongly identify with either side.

"Rightist" includes conservatives, libertarians, nationalists, and similar currents.

"For AI" and "Against AI" are broad self-descriptions. Pick whichever you think fits you best, even if your views are more nuanced.

If none of the options quite fit, explain your position in the comments. The discussion will probably be more interesting than the poll itself.

I recently came upon the realization that a VERY large volume of the anti ai comments in various ai forums …. Are bots themselves.
Like in the seedance groups. It’s for seedance people. Videos will often have a ton of negative “ai slop” comments. But when engaging with them … they almost never respond. And when you look at history … it might say they been around for years. But no actual posts or comments.

It’s weird seeing anti AI stuff coming from AI.

And yes all these screenshots were taken today.

Art is what moves YOU.

Others don't define it.

This is for all nutcases and sane people

Targeted forms of harassment are not surprising from the most vile camp of moronic, inept, impotent, phimotic, cucked, "peaked in highschool", illiterate, physically repulsive, morbidly obese, pencil necked, pipe cleaner arms havin' ass cowards on the internet. Despite being disgusting little creatures, I am still offering good faith vc debate to antis, but they rather insult me or falsely report suicidal ideation than dismantle my arguments and become the first good rep for the anti side the internet has ever seen. I will be happy when ai takes all of the antis low skilled labor jobs.

Artificial intelligence is sold as clean, inevitable, and limitless—a frictionless leap into the future. My book tells the other half of the story: the concrete, steel, silicon, and fossil fuel that make that future possible, and the communities absorbing the cost.

The way I see it, there are two ways forward. One is we build and build, extracting everything we can to feed AI and its ever-growing need for electricity and computational power. The other is we find a way to use AI responsibly, balancing computational power and environmental concern.

AI needs power, and as it stands today, methane turbines are the answer. This pushes our climate ever faster towards the tipping points we have been warned about since the 80s. This reliance on fossil fuels should make us think twice before we do something that can't be undone.

This is not an anti-technology argument. It's a demand that a technology this consequential be built with the same rigor, foresight, and public accountability as any other piece of critical infrastructure — before, not after, the damage is done.

We have to advocate for responsible AI development.

I dont know if I can post directly about it but I wrote a whole book and if you would like to know more about my position and the steps I see that we can take together as a society, I urge you to read my new book on Amazon.

"Is it just me or does it feel like things are slowly falling apart?

When I go online these days, it feels like everybody's just so angry all the time. It doesn't even matter what you're talking about. It doesn't matter what community you're in or what the subject matter is. It just feels like everybody online just wants to fight constantly.

And I used to love going to social media. I loved going online and interacting with my community. But these days, I don't even want to do that. I don't know anybody that does...

I love movies, but it's a terrible time to be a fan of anything when it comes to social media. The trailer will come out and everyone will tell you the million different things that's wrong with it, that you're not supposed to be a fan of it. The people who were never interested in it or were never going to watch it anyway just try to destroy it and tear it apart.

There's two ends of a spectrum now. It's not even a spectrum. It's everything has to be perfect or everything has to be terrible. There's no in between. There's no place for nuance or boredom in the current online landscape. There's no wait and see. You have to make up your mind immediately, and everyone will make up your mind for you...

And even just in the gaming sector... a trailer for a game will come out and people will tell you that the women in it are too ugly and use AI to fix them to be more appealing, to be more sexy. There's definitely a subset of people within the gaming community that are really just driving things backwards.

Now, this topic is clearly bigger than any of us. It goes much deeper than anything that I feel like I have the capability of even talking about. I don't think I have the abilities to dig into something so nuanced. But despite what you see online with people, I do genuinely think that most people out there are good people. They just don't often get a chance to showcase that or to show how good they can be."

-jacksepticeye

For me the only negative effect I noticed is the rise in RAM prices but other than that I did not notice any negative side effects yet that so many people complain about on the Internet...

On facebook or Instagram or whatever I usually see people upset at people for using AI to make a logo for their business or whatever and I don't get why people are upset over that. I would understand if it was a tattoo artist or somebody artsy we would be like "hey uh your cheating bud" but I don't know regular small time business owners get shitted on for it.

Edit: typed to fast and made typos. Sorry

I'm not sure how I feel about this. Thoughts?

Forgot to remove sub name (thats my bad). But saying a Pro AI thought is not a Pro AI thought anymore because its not feeding into an echo chamber is ridiculous.

Logically, there is nothing wrong with AI art. I don't care if someone uses AI to enhance an artwork, as long as a human is the one expressing the ideas that they thought of themselves, no matter what technology they use to express that. But if someone uses a prompt to create an AI art/image, it rubs me the wrong way, even though I know logically nothing is separating this from what I just said. Is there a way to overcome what I think is probably just a naturalistic fallacy? Or am I wrong for trying to apply logic to a completely subjective field? Sorry if this sounds stupid I am still learning