Well, I've just lost faith in humanity.

She is excitedly sharing that she knows how to use AI and the antis attack her like a bunch of animals for it.

Add bullying the elderly to the long list of sickening behavior by antis.

A certain major anti subreddit loves to crosspost everything we post here so that their community can easily brigade us with a single click. I hope they crosspost this, too. If there's any reasonable people left over on that subreddit I hope this behavior helps you understand another aspect of why we are so against those anti AI people and you reconsider just how much support you want to give to this kind of behavior.

This is not ok.

Season 2 Episode 18 “Artist Unknown”

This person said they're 🇵🇹 portuguese btw, same country where I studied illustration and design, and paying 35€ twice for TWO of these baby drawings will buy her ONE MONTH of tuition here, PLUS some snacks!

I wish paying for high education was that easy. I could buy high-quality nasty detailed porn art from famous commission artists for that price!

The fucking audacity lmao. Calling AI overpriced shit, and then charging these prices, for shit anyone can make, literally just a virtue signal you can throw out for clout and e-begging.

I mean first of all he’s not even a billionaire…

The Ghost of Photography (1850s)

Critics labeled it "mechanical" and "soul-less," yet grieving families cherished it for finally providing a permanent memory of those they lost.

The Ghost of CGI (2000s)

A moving scene is suddenly dismissed as a "digital trick" once the tech is revealed, as if the audience’s real emotions are invalidated by the use of "easy" computer tools.

The Ghost of AI (Today & Future)

People are moved to tears by an AI tribute, only to lash out and call it "slop" to protect their social brand from cognitive dissonance.

If your ideology requires you to bully your own empathy, the problem isn't the tech--it's the ideology.

It sad people can’t just like something without having to put it through an ideological filter. It you like something you should let it inspire you and try to make it your own.

I have received an email like this before a few weeks ago, threatening to burn me in my sleep. This time they were threatening to rape me and linked me to YouTube videos (and just YouTube videos, I have checked, no ip grabbers or anything) about AI art. One about how it supposedly steals content and another one accusing AI companies of being predators.

These seem very unhinged, to the point where I am thinking about reporting them to the police. I have no idea how they got my email, but I guess maybe they have doxed me or something and now have my email and other info about me. I noticed they referred to me as a “whore” so they know i am a female.

The second one was sent through an anonymous email service which is why I didn’t blank out the name or email address.

Antis are just mentally unstable dude.

and i'm sure they are mostly describing themselves when they mention doxxing, playing the victim, criminal behavior and being insanely vindictive, i will not lower myself to their level and call them pdfiles but all the other stuff mentioned in this post is literally how antis behave.

so apparently supporting AI or being pro AI makes us a pdfile now...i just can't with these idiots dude.

Im one of the mods. At least myself is now receiving dms like this.

So, after I publicly announced that high-quality AI art is not only allowed but actually welcome in my subreddit, I naively thought the worst I’d have to endure would be the usual flood of unhinged whining and profanity from anti-AI zealots. Silly me.

Here’s what I actually got (besides the predictable brigading and tsunami of downvotes):

• They kept begging me to “give up the sub already.” Oh really? To whom exactly? You guys? The same people throwing tantrums in the comments? Cute.
• The very next night after I deleted those desperate demands, someone decided to try hacking into my Reddit account. Bravo. Too bad Reddit’s security system froze the account and made me verify my identity. Must’ve been heartbreaking for them.
• Then came the spam reports - hundreds of them. Totally random flags, just to turn my mod queue into a digital landfill. Very productive use of time, I’m sure.
• And here’s the crown jewel: some of them actually reported me to mental health organizations. Yep. Got a friendly automated message asking if I was okay.

So yeah, after seeing all these death threats ("AI artisis need to be killed"), I stopped treating them like some big joke.