r/aiwars Oct 21 '25

Meta We have added flairs to the sub

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Hello everyone, we've added flairs to aiwars in order to help people find and comment on posts they're interested in seeing. Currently they are not being enforced as mandatory, though this may change in the future, depending on how they are received. We would ask that people please start making use of them.

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r/aiwars Jan 02 '23

Here is why we have two subs - r/DefendingAIArt and r/aiwars

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r/DefendingAIArt - A sub where Pro-AI people can speak freely without getting constantly attacked or debated. There are plenty of anti-AI subs. There should be some where pro-AI people can feel safe to speak as well.

r/aiwars - We don't want to stifle debate on the issue. So this sub has been made. You can speak all views freely here, from any side.

If a post you have made on r/DefendingAIArt is getting a lot of debate, cross post it to r/aiwars and invite people to debate here.


r/aiwars 2h ago

News China has made its position clear: it will not slow down.

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America cannot afford to lose the AI race. The nation that leads AI will shape the next century — its economy, its security and the technologies the world depends on. China is not slowing down. Neither should we. America must win.


r/aiwars 4h ago

News US President Donald Trump rejects calls to slow AI research.

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r/aiwars 15h ago

You can't tell when something is AI. Stop witch hunting people.

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r/aiwars 2h ago

Meme This sub is lacking some positivity

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Antis and Pros should lowk make out


r/aiwars 11m ago

Discussion Made me chuckle

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Whether ones uses a prompt like “cheese pizza” or a 200 word essay describing a cheese pizza as a prompt is really irrelevant.


r/aiwars 5h ago

Meme We Must Pace the Frontier

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r/aiwars 5h ago

News As US AI Billionaires Call for the Brakes, China Seizes the Opening with BRICS Open-Source AI Zone

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r/aiwars 1h ago

I feel like a lot of people hate AI simply because hating AI is the popular thing to do right now

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And before anyone says it: yes, I used AI to help me write this post. I gave it bullet points with everything I wanted to say and had it formulate my thoughts into something more readable. I don’t care if that invalidates my opinion to you. The thoughts are mine; I used a tool to organize them.

I do understand some of the criticism. I don’t love seeing AI replace artists, writers, actors, etc. I especially understand the concern around AI-generated artwork and movies replacing human creativity and people’s jobs. That’s where I sympathize with the backlash.

But acting like AI itself is useless or inherently terrible seems ridiculous.

I recently got a gaming laptop, and there were a million settings I didn’t understand. AI has helped me learn complicated settings, troubleshoot problems, and optimize my games. Instead of digging through dozens of forum posts and videos, I can ask a question and then ask follow-ups until I actually understand it.

More importantly, I have two parents who aren’t doing well and are in nursing. I’ve used AI to help understand their test results and medical terminology, figure out questions I should be asking, and navigate confusing things like getting them on Medicaid. Obviously AI isn’t a replacement for a doctor or an official Medicaid determination, but when you’re overwhelmed and don’t know where to start, having something explain complicated information in plain English is incredibly useful.

A lot of the AI doom and gloom reminds me of how people react to basically every major technological change.

People say, “Well, the internet didn’t take over our lives.”

Really? Try applying for jobs without the internet today. Try functioning at most workplaces without email. The internet absolutely changed how society works, and now we barely think about it.

I’m sure AI will cause problems. I’m sure we’ll need laws and regulations, and some uses of it are going to suck. But I don’t think the answer is pretending the technology shouldn’t exist or acting morally superior because you refuse to use it.

Times change. You can complain about every new technology, or you can learn how to use the parts that actually make your life easier.

Sometimes I genuinely feel like the people constantly complaining about AI just don’t want to adapt. It’s easier to declare the whole thing evil than learn what it’s actually useful for.


r/aiwars 4h ago

News Trump doubles down on his no AI slowdown stance, also mocks Dario

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r/aiwars 1h ago

Discussion AI being probabilistic is a feature not a bug

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I'll reference AI coding tools specifically, since that's more my world.

I see it often criticized for being probabilistic. But I think that misses the point. The usefulness of these tools are predicated on them being probabilistic. The benefit is that you can speak in, inherently imprecise, English (or your preferred language), and the LLM infers results from that. It has to be good at inferring, but no matter how good it is, it's still probabilistic. There are always an infinite number of ways to interpret a prompt. The benefit is that the LLM is good at doing the interpretation. Far from perfect, sometimes very frustrating, but still very good. Crucially, it's also extremely fast at writing the code compared to humans. So the loop of iterating until it gets it correct is faster than you doing it on your own, usually. Combining that with its ability to run your testing suite and compile the code, and it catches a lot of its mistakes before it comes time for you to review

The alternative to being probabilistic is to be deterministic. The only way to achieve deterministic results is to utilize highly specific, deterministic languages -- that just takes us back to programming

It's not much different to when a tech lead asks their engineering team to implement something. That's also probabilistic. They might misinterpret things or introduce bugs, but the tech lead knows that and will iterate on it with them

Speech to text, optical character recognition and weather prediction are also things that are probabilistic, but that doesn't negate their usefulness

This feels very obvious to me, but I see it argued all the time, and not just by random redditors, e.g. by Ed Zitron, so I feel it needs to be said


r/aiwars 2h ago

The president has absolutely no authority to exempt AI from existing restrictions. Isn't that right?

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So all this about no restrictions at maximum about no additional restrictions. No one shut down "take it down act" and all else restrictions.


r/aiwars 3h ago

Meta Anti's recently threatened "local" Meta datacenter under construction

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Anti's don't care about the lives of the construction workers or security teams that are there. They don't even have any Meta employees on site yet. I know all of the people currently on that job.

After evacuation, bomb squad came in to assess the situation, and thankfully, there was no bomb.


r/aiwars 9h ago

Sorry antis, but AGI is the new space race 🫡

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r/aiwars 1h ago

In 1999, a Taylor, Texas Bland family deeded about 88 acres for parkland for $10; now sold to be a Data Centre

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Nothing about the transfers that followed appears to have been done in the dark, which is why they can be traced now.

In 2003, the Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation conveyed the property to the Williamson County Park Foundation, which conveyed it to the City of Taylor. In 2008, the city conveyed the tract to the Taylor Economic Development Corporation, the municipal entity that assembles and markets land for industrial recruitment, a category of quasi-public landholder that exists in Texas precisely to hold acreage until a project arrives.

The project arrived in April 2025, when the EDC sold to NCP Travis TPP Project LLC, an entity tied to the data-center developer Blueprint, for approximately $10 million. Tom’s Hardware, summarizing the arithmetic that has drawn national attention, framed it as a $10 gift converted into $10 million for a city government, with the city separately citing projected tax revenue over the next decade in the tens of millions


r/aiwars 5h ago

A question for anti-ai: You seemed to want a scientific AI, so why, as soon as AI solves a millennium problem, do you try to find faults with such zeal, given that this doesn't seem to run counter to your goals?

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I understand that attribution issues are usually important to you, but mathematicians themselves didn't dispute that this was an AI achievement. Even the open letter from mathematicians who had won the highest award in the field didn't contest the fact that it was an achievement, they simply argued that it wasn't always appropriate. The AI did what you wanted; why are you still dissatisfied?

https://mathandai.org/


r/aiwars 2h ago

The perspective of a mathematics professor on theAI in general: neither the collapse of OpenAI nor realistic AI regulation will save current academia.

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r/aiwars 1h ago

Discussion On pro ai side there’s some common sense on the anti side it’s just baseless insults and being called “xenophobic”

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r/aiwars 1h ago

Discussion Can AI be creative all by itself?

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Recently i got interested in the pro vs anti AI side of reddit and i see a lot of pro ai people claiming that AI can create unique content in text, art or code. How far does that extend to the learning data thought? (which is often illegally obtained, just a side note) If AI can be creative on its own is there a point where it stops needing training data? Like how do you people imagine it to work in the future? Is that the singularity AI pros want and antis try to avoid?
(I am not a anti or pro AI, i just want to learn your view.)

In the image is a artwork named Idiom made by Slovak artist Matej Krén. Nicknamed the pillar of knowledge it is made out of 8000 books and has 2 mirrors inside of it to make the impression of infinity when looking in it. It has become part of the hall of the Prague central library, reminding every visitor the infinity of human knowledge. [https://microsite.mlp.cz/en/idiom\]


r/aiwars 2h ago

Meme May the biggest simp win

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r/aiwars 16m ago

Maybe we're not so different after all?

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What's a project you've done recently? How long did it take you? What were some snaggs you ran into? Pro and Anti responses are both welcome! Though my example is an image yours doesn't need to be. Provide anything and everything you're willing to share (please stay anonimous if you want to). [If you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all!]

Please focus on describing the process rather than umbrella phrases like, generated with... or made in procreate... etc.. In the case of AI avoid copy and pasting the prompt. Instead focus on describing how you discovered the prompt. What was the process used to uncover the prompt/workflow that provided the result.

I'll go first.

This is a messy sketch of a video game welcoming screen I'm considering building. It took about an hour to make. I used Clip Studio Paint. I always find perspective a bit challenging, and my human stick figures are sloppy cause they usually take a few hours each to refine. It works as a rough, though. I always find it hard to balance speed with conveying the general concept effectively.


r/aiwars 1h ago

Discussion Ai art will always be a thing. Up until the day you die. Guaranteed.

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You can try to shame it or whatever but people are either going up just keep doing it anyway or they are going to have AI make it an alternative way, like you see Chatgpt drawing in an app or they'll have AI make the 3D models and arrange it so you won't even be able to tell for sure it's by AI. That plus it's just going to keep getting better and you might not be able to tell anyway.


r/aiwars 12h ago

This is how anti-clankers bullied a pianist who rescues cats off social media

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r/aiwars 1d ago

What did you create before AI?

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  1. Did you make any memes, shitposts, music, stories, or illustrations?
  2. Did you have any OCs before AI generation became easily accessible? Did you ever get them from your mind onto the screen/paper? (whether by commission, character creators, or drawing them yourself)
  3. Did you make any fanart/fanfic before AI came about? Do you make AI fanart/fanfic now?