Eclectic Writer and Artist. And as far as I know the first Jewish Korean Adoptee writer pro-published in SFF. Double gray-a. BA in Anthropology concentrated in systems. Minor in Comparative Lit.
The idea that 16 was a common marriage age (Fantasy/Historical Fiction)
You see, kids, in Ye Olde times, the common marriage age for women was 16 (or younger) and so in my MADE UP FANTASY NOVEL I'm going to FORCE my female character to marry at 16.
I've been tracking down where this idea came from and the truth behind it as a side quest because:
Incels are disgusting
Epstien files
even "Liberal" organizations like Planned Parenthood will not back off of child marriage and that's still a WTF.
Pedos are disgusting
I find the whole pervy, let's make them 16 and experience motherhood then in fantasy something I want to stab hard.
SERIOUSLY, THE US IS FUCKED UP IN THIS CASE.
For a disclosure, I'm in favor of the Regency age of *drumroll please* Yes, 19-20. Or at least dudes, 18 and the adjustment by AGE of participants as well, to make sure of no grooming and absolute consent.
Where did this idea come from?
I actually covered this briefly in my Adoption and Foster Care History I video, but, there's this idea in Tudor Times (that's Early Modern period for the History nerds) babies could get married and it was condoned by the church. I went and I bought the book that said that this was not the case.
What happened was often parents would get into debt and promise their babies to a person, but this is key: Neither the law nor the church would support this practice and it was seen as wholly against all moral codes to do so. Somehow, a lot of people think that what royalty did was common practice among the regular folk. NOPE.
And while Royal marriages I've found worldwide did have children promised to each other, often there was a special ceremony for the consummation while the wedding consummation was "fakes" (look they touched each other's legs! It's consummated in the eyes of God) (Hey, but the king used a proxy... He's out hunting!) (Doesn't matter! So married.)
There are cases of royals having children young as 13, but this was generally frowned upon even in Tudor times, with notes about how weak it left the mother and child. Margaret Beaufort was BEFORE Tudor times and even then it was heavily remarked upon as unorthodox. As in, it was quietly frowned upon with the royals. Younger than 16 was considered immature.
So I think the idea actually came from looking at Romeo and Juliet and people thinking that was NORMAL. It was NOT. The whole point was to make their ages abnormal to highlight the innocence of love. And also, some scholars say that Shakespeare was working out some of his trauma with his wife... but that's neither here nor there. The average age was around 24-27 among the common folk and then for Regency period the earliest was about 22-23 for women and 27-30 for men. The courtship was expected to last 2-3 YEARS unlike many Austenesque adaptations, it was not a quick trip to marriage.
In Regency England, the legal age for marriage and the reasons for marriage varied, reflecting the social and legal customs of the time. Leg
If a young lady or gentleman wanted to get married in Regency England while they were a minor, that is before they came ‘of age’, they neede
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance, wrote Jane Austen in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Roy and Lesley Adkins share t
Tudor times: 24- 27
There are things that we take for granted because we've always had them. For instance: Plumbing, running water, cars, the internet, smartpho
Yes, women got younger and younger over time... ?.? Should this be a thing?
The problem with Fantasy
Yadda yadda, I can do what I want, it's a Other world fantasy. Yadda Yadda, I don't have to follow history.
The main characters are human?
Yes.
The female character is 16 in Earth Years?
Yes.
The female character is getting married before their frontal cortex has had time to develop?
Yes.
It just leaves me feeling cold and like it's a bit skeevy. Historically they didn't do it or allow it, and why are you supporting child marriage. It feels creepy as hell.
And the fact incels go to Ye Olden times and think that the age was 14 and 13 based off of Shakespeare is a squint for me. It shows they don't know how to read older texts.
Why did you choose 16 of all ages anyway when it doesn't have historical support? It's creepy. It's often filled with feelings of grooming...
And also, the US is creepy as hell to allow a 13 year old to get married. Especially, and most especially places like Planned Parenthood which makes stupid reasons for why it should be allowed.
Some advocates want California to prohibit marriage for people under age 18. But groups including the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have oppos
It's a fantasy world, you can change it.
Also, I still think the marriage age should be more reasonable, like 18 or 20. One law of China I do like is the 20 years old for marriage, because at least they have some college under their belt.
Bret Devereaux is a historian of the ancient mediterranean who does a lot of detailed posts about various topics, and he has a series about "the lives of peasants" which takes basic realities of peasant life in an agricultural society and explains them and lays out what they mean for individuals, for families, and for the village. If you're going to write anything set either in the past or in a "vaguely medieval" fantasy setting, I highly recommend it.
Part IIIA is "Family Formation," by which he means marriage. It will help to have read the earlier posts (about mortality rates and so on), but you don't need them to understand the demographic data he's reporting.
Basically, for peasants (who were at least 90% of every society in the agrarian pre-Industrial world), pretty much everyone gets married and has kids, because otherwise you don't have enough hands to keep the work going. He identifies three patterns of age at first marriage for women.
Early: In this cultural pattern, "women" marry in their early to mid teens, averaging about age 16 at first marriage. This was the pattern in most of Ancient Greece for which we have information.
Intermediate: In this cultural pattern, "women" marry in their mid to late teens, averaging about 18-20 at first marriage. This was the pattern in much of Ancient Rome.
Late: In this cultural pattern, women marry in their early 20s, averaging about 22-25 at first marriage. You see this in Medieval England and other places in Europe. Part of the reason the age is so late here is the assumption that a married couple will have their own separate home and land to farm, instead of just being subsumed into the groom's parents's household.
So there are places that the average girl was getting married at 16, but that's not universal, and also, if you're going to have a society where girls do get married at 16, you should be looking at what that actually meant in the real world if you want coherent worldbuilding--for example, she's not going to be running her own household, she's going to be living under the jurisdiction of her mother-in-law.
And if you're going for a vaguely-European setting, 16 would be weirdly young, especially if you're talking about England and Western Europe.
#if we are talking medieval european royalty: being promised to each other as children also often did not mean that you would marry then#BUT: often the girl would be sent to the court of the future groom to be raised there until it would become time#this is because marriage was a business transactation and it was helpful if she knew her future jurisdictions and tasks very well#anyway what's normal or not normal or immoral for marriage practices fluctuates across history#so what's important is not that you swap out 'they were married young in Olden Times' with 'they weren't married that young in Olden Times'#but to realise that there is no one Olden Times and that everything everywhere had its own version of doing things#and then there were always (!) people who did things differently to everyone else. bc we are people and love being contradictory#anyway. in short: it depends.
There are cases in China, Korea, Japan also of being promised as children, but even if marriage were to occur as teenagers (which again, was on the very rarer side) consummation was formally delayed and had to go through long and legal court approval. (This holds in Japan until the Shogunate, but going over the reason it started up, took things over and the messy adoption processes is long and you can pretty much read it on wikipedia)
For example, one of the earliest records of a 16 year old marrying a King, in Korea is Heo Hwang Ok to King Suro (circa 1st century CE). BUT while it says they spent a long time together for about 2 weeks after she landed at 16, they did not produce a child for a long, long time. This shows the consummation was delayed after marriage and the marriage was more than likely for the political alliance (or Suro, the King, was a kind of ace. He's famous for having only one queen and no concubines or mistresses, which was rarer at the time.)
By Joseon, BTW, the selection process was hugely involved for all concubines for the princes, with some families skipping over being selected by making hasty marriages. (Same with Japan and China). And the consummation ceremony was super formal. You had to get permission from the Queen Mother and Queen, then the astrologers needed to set an auspicious date (lol), then the Queen would select the date which was appropriate. She may or may not be the mother of the Crown Prince. Then they would "educate" the pair on how to do it. And this is super awkward, but maybe not as much as the proxy marriage of Europe... but then servants would be outside, waiting, and then the consummation would be reported to the Queen and Queen Mother and any of the relevant concubines of the King. So your private business is now spread across the kingdom.
Medici's court in France, Mary Queen of Scots was promised there, yes, but she was kind of in a finishing school (Look up Anne Boleyn). There is a lot of debate, BTW, over Mary Queen of Scots' English and if it would be French-accented since she was sent so young.
I also looked at Catherine II (born Princess Sophia Augusta Frederica of Anhalt-Zerbst) (Russia) and she was married relatively young, but again, the consummation was formal and delayed.
On Marie Antoinette, it was famously delayed to the point that some historians think Louis might have been aro ace or both because he had to have a stern talking to in order to get him to do it.
I also looked at records from various African kingdoms as well. (Tbh, mostly West and East African nations) and most of the marriages among royals had the same patterns. Either they married in their mid 20's-ish, or married earlier, but waited on the consummation.
But generally, when I said I checked more than Europe, I really did check more than Europe. I still get the shivers when some (incels) idealize what happened to Margaret Beaufort. ELEW. But I learned some crazy beliefs they have.
When Laura Ingalls Wilder married in the books, people around her remarked that she was still young yet. She was 18 years old. Considering debuts were at 19, that also makes sense.
The point is that there is a weird fantasy about 16 year olds having babies historically that is often not true. And often the idea that skeevy old men could have 16 year old girls really doesn't hold up.
The only places I found such ideas come in the 19th century with white male fantasies of mainly Asian women. Which honestly, I want to delete from my memory. The whole reading of Madame Chrysanthemum (the book), the whole reading of Madame Butterfly [also the book] (which was worse) makes me feel so stabby because effectively both of them are r*pe and then contemporary WOMEN saying (It was the Times. It wasn't. They were pervy skeevy white men you're trying to now justify who wished they could have white women, but the white women were picketing their misogyny.) The idealism with pedo sex tourism from that entire era I've had the misfortune of reading as well and the justification parade that came after, and I really think this is a secondary reason for the historical myth. Gaugin's Tahitian sex tourism makes me want to never see another one of his paintings again. I've been trying to track down his claims too, and they are on thin ice as well. (also it was illegal by French law, but French didn't enforce the law against him.)
Believe me, I really checked. Even the famed Pocahontas, while married relatively young, did not marry the egomaniac John Smith at 12. (Elew). She married John Rolfe at probably 18. John Smith was a skeevy loser who exaggerated and tried to age her up...
The whole It depends and It was the times: It wasn't. And often imperialism played a huge role. And I wish I could also delete the grooming instructions I read from the Kama Sutra while looking up Indian beauty standards. Note that the Kama Sutra is mostly for rich royals, but that doesn't make it OK.
Marriage usually happened earlier in royal situations to cement the alliance, make sure dowry and/or bride price was paid. Even if the marriage was at 16, the consummation was often delayed and very formally decided: Health checks, and the whole 9 yards. I mean everyone knew your business. And the only reason for earlier marriages and promises was basically not only for the girl to learn her duties and target language as such, but to cement power because something dire was happening politically. Normandy and England needed to side against France. Korea and China wanted to show loyalty to each other. (Korea sent a concubine to a Chinese emperor. She's buried in China). Gaya needed to know the secret to Iron ore purification (and maybe how to make flushing toilets???) but you wouldn't give up secrets a leveraging mechanism without a formal contract and often the most formal contract back in the day that couldn't be rescinded was marriage between opposing parties. 16 years old consummation and marriage, however, is a skeevy fantasy. At least push it to 18 and call that young, because it is. At least then some of the frontal cortex impulse control has developed by then...
As part of the Adoption and Foster Care History series I've been taking photos and videos to help ease some of the mind numbing violence the series brings up so it doesn't seem gratuitous.
This is waves crashing against some rocks splashing up really high around noon.
I took this photo as a part of that. But I needed to make a landscape painting for class.
I thought it was going to be easy, but it was really difficult.
Sometimes I feel I succeeded. Sometimes I feel like I failed. There's a lot of techniques I had to self teach myself to render this correctly which were not online.
AMENDMENT 28
-THE FLAME OF LIBERTY-
PUBLIC LAUNCH - JULY 4 2026
the problem
- Political spending is free speech.
- Corporations have rights as people.
- Districts are drawn to entrench power.
- Media has become propaganda.
- Markets are dominated by monopolies.
- The people have no power in government.
This isn't dysfunction. It's design.
What must be done
We have spent two years developing a sweeping constitutional reform amendment that:
- Protects voting and human rights
- Removes ALL private money from politics
- Bans gerrymandering
- Abolishes the electoral college
- Bans insider trading by elected officials
- Protects against market monopoly and oligarchy
- Protects workers from AI/economic disruption
- Restores checks and balances on Executive power
We do need to ban corporate money in elections, but not sure if all of this would get passed under one amendment. My faith in the US electorate is shaky.
The idea that 16 was a common marriage age (Fantasy/Historical Fiction)
You see, kids, in Ye Olde times, the common marriage age for women was 16 (or younger) and so in my MADE UP FANTASY NOVEL I'm going to FORCE my female character to marry at 16.
I've been tracking down where this idea came from and the truth behind it as a side quest because:
Incels are disgusting
Epstien files
even "Liberal" organizations like Planned Parenthood will not back off of child marriage and that's still a WTF.
Pedos are disgusting
I find the whole pervy, let's make them 16 and experience motherhood then in fantasy something I want to stab hard.
SERIOUSLY, THE US IS FUCKED UP IN THIS CASE.
For a disclosure, I'm in favor of the Regency age of *drumroll please* Yes, 19-20. Or at least dudes, 18 and the adjustment by AGE of participants as well, to make sure of no grooming and absolute consent.
Where did this idea come from?
I actually covered this briefly in my Adoption and Foster Care History I video, but, there's this idea in Tudor Times (that's Early Modern period for the History nerds) babies could get married and it was condoned by the church. I went and I bought the book that said that this was not the case.
What happened was often parents would get into debt and promise their babies to a person, but this is key: Neither the law nor the church would support this practice and it was seen as wholly against all moral codes to do so. Somehow, a lot of people think that what royalty did was common practice among the regular folk. NOPE.
And while Royal marriages I've found worldwide did have children promised to each other, often there was a special ceremony for the consummation while the wedding consummation was "fakes" (look they touched each other's legs! It's consummated in the eyes of God) (Hey, but the king used a proxy... He's out hunting!) (Doesn't matter! So married.)
There are cases of royals having children young as 13, but this was generally frowned upon even in Tudor times, with notes about how weak it left the mother and child. Margaret Beaufort was BEFORE Tudor times and even then it was heavily remarked upon as unorthodox. As in, it was quietly frowned upon with the royals. Younger than 16 was considered immature.
So I think the idea actually came from looking at Romeo and Juliet and people thinking that was NORMAL. It was NOT. The whole point was to make their ages abnormal to highlight the innocence of love. And also, some scholars say that Shakespeare was working out some of his trauma with his wife... but that's neither here nor there. The average age was around 24-27 among the common folk and then for Regency period the earliest was about 22-23 for women and 27-30 for men. The courtship was expected to last 2-3 YEARS unlike many Austenesque adaptations, it was not a quick trip to marriage.
In Regency England, the legal age for marriage and the reasons for marriage varied, reflecting the social and legal customs of the time. Leg
If a young lady or gentleman wanted to get married in Regency England while they were a minor, that is before they came ‘of age’, they neede
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance, wrote Jane Austen in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Roy and Lesley Adkins share t
Tudor times: 24- 27
There are things that we take for granted because we've always had them. For instance: Plumbing, running water, cars, the internet, smartpho
Yes, women got younger and younger over time... ?.? Should this be a thing?
The problem with Fantasy
Yadda yadda, I can do what I want, it's a Other world fantasy. Yadda Yadda, I don't have to follow history.
The main characters are human?
Yes.
The female character is 16 in Earth Years?
Yes.
The female character is getting married before their frontal cortex has had time to develop?
Yes.
It just leaves me feeling cold and like it's a bit skeevy. Historically they didn't do it or allow it, and why are you supporting child marriage. It feels creepy as hell.
And the fact incels go to Ye Olden times and think that the age was 14 and 13 based off of Shakespeare is a squint for me. It shows they don't know how to read older texts.
Why did you choose 16 of all ages anyway when it doesn't have historical support? It's creepy. It's often filled with feelings of grooming...
And also, the US is creepy as hell to allow a 13 year old to get married. Especially, and most especially places like Planned Parenthood which makes stupid reasons for why it should be allowed.
Some advocates want California to prohibit marriage for people under age 18. But groups including the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have oppos
It's a fantasy world, you can change it.
Also, I still think the marriage age should be more reasonable, like 18 or 20. One law of China I do like is the 20 years old for marriage, because at least they have some college under their belt.
Bret Devereaux is a historian of the ancient mediterranean who does a lot of detailed posts about various topics, and he has a series about "the lives of peasants" which takes basic realities of peasant life in an agricultural society and explains them and lays out what they mean for individuals, for families, and for the village. If you're going to write anything set either in the past or in a "vaguely medieval" fantasy setting, I highly recommend it.
Part IIIA is "Family Formation," by which he means marriage. It will help to have read the earlier posts (about mortality rates and so on), but you don't need them to understand the demographic data he's reporting.
Basically, for peasants (who were at least 90% of every society in the agrarian pre-Industrial world), pretty much everyone gets married and has kids, because otherwise you don't have enough hands to keep the work going. He identifies three patterns of age at first marriage for women.
Early: In this cultural pattern, "women" marry in their early to mid teens, averaging about age 16 at first marriage. This was the pattern in most of Ancient Greece for which we have information.
Intermediate: In this cultural pattern, "women" marry in their mid to late teens, averaging about 18-20 at first marriage. This was the pattern in much of Ancient Rome.
Late: In this cultural pattern, women marry in their early 20s, averaging about 22-25 at first marriage. You see this in Medieval England and other places in Europe. Part of the reason the age is so late here is the assumption that a married couple will have their own separate home and land to farm, instead of just being subsumed into the groom's parents's household.
So there are places that the average girl was getting married at 16, but that's not universal, and also, if you're going to have a society where girls do get married at 16, you should be looking at what that actually meant in the real world if you want coherent worldbuilding--for example, she's not going to be running her own household, she's going to be living under the jurisdiction of her mother-in-law.
And if you're going for a vaguely-European setting, 16 would be weirdly young, especially if you're talking about England and Western Europe.
Residents of Monterey Park voted overwhelmingly to ban data centers, making the San Gabriel Valley city the first in the nation to do so by
There are more measures to try to fight Data Centers. But I still feel like the midwest is likely to get hit hard. And unlike a lot of people on the Dem side, I do not relish someone who voted different from me getting hit by corrupt government officials getting corporate payouts being hit with Data centers. That, folks, makes you a horrible, horrible human being. NO ONE "deserves" to be hit with corrupt government officials taking bribes.
I simply think AI should not exist in Data Centers.
There is kinda a move to try to make AI work on local computers and get Tech companies out of our personal data that way, I've heard of, and while it doesn't have the same moral implications as the Data Centers, I still don't think grand averaging machines is the way to go to get innovation, so I fell 50/50 about that.
That said, as I said, Cancer research machines that use AI to find cancer are not run through vast data centers, which is a point that the Tech Bros have conceded, which is why they came up with the Industrial revolution line. ==;; Sometimes I think they aren't smarter than AI because they haven't read enough about programming, AI and UX, though a lot of them claim they do and then I beat them with basic tech speak and watch them squirm.
The idea that 16 was a common marriage age (Fantasy/Historical Fiction)
You see, kids, in Ye Olde times, the common marriage age for women was 16 (or younger) and so in my MADE UP FANTASY NOVEL I'm going to FORCE my female character to marry at 16.
I've been tracking down where this idea came from and the truth behind it as a side quest because:
Incels are disgusting
Epstien files
even "Liberal" organizations like Planned Parenthood will not back off of child marriage and that's still a WTF.
Pedos are disgusting
I find the whole pervy, let's make them 16 and experience motherhood then in fantasy something I want to stab hard.
SERIOUSLY, THE US IS FUCKED UP IN THIS CASE.
For a disclosure, I'm in favor of the Regency age of *drumroll please* Yes, 19-20. Or at least dudes, 18 and the adjustment by AGE of participants as well, to make sure of no grooming and absolute consent.
Where did this idea come from?
I actually covered this briefly in my Adoption and Foster Care History I video, but, there's this idea in Tudor Times (that's Early Modern period for the History nerds) babies could get married and it was condoned by the church. I went and I bought the book that said that this was not the case.
What happened was often parents would get into debt and promise their babies to a person, but this is key: Neither the law nor the church would support this practice and it was seen as wholly against all moral codes to do so. Somehow, a lot of people think that what royalty did was common practice among the regular folk. NOPE.
And while Royal marriages I've found worldwide did have children promised to each other, often there was a special ceremony for the consummation while the wedding consummation was "fakes" (look they touched each other's legs! It's consummated in the eyes of God) (Hey, but the king used a proxy... He's out hunting!) (Doesn't matter! So married.)
There are cases of royals having children young as 13, but this was generally frowned upon even in Tudor times, with notes about how weak it left the mother and child. Margaret Beaufort was BEFORE Tudor times and even then it was heavily remarked upon as unorthodox. As in, it was quietly frowned upon with the royals. Younger than 16 was considered immature.
So I think the idea actually came from looking at Romeo and Juliet and people thinking that was NORMAL. It was NOT. The whole point was to make their ages abnormal to highlight the innocence of love. And also, some scholars say that Shakespeare was working out some of his trauma with his wife... but that's neither here nor there. The average age was around 24-27 among the common folk and then for Regency period the earliest was about 22-23 for women and 27-30 for men. The courtship was expected to last 2-3 YEARS unlike many Austenesque adaptations, it was not a quick trip to marriage.
In Regency England, the legal age for marriage and the reasons for marriage varied, reflecting the social and legal customs of the time. Leg
If a young lady or gentleman wanted to get married in Regency England while they were a minor, that is before they came ‘of age’, they neede
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance, wrote Jane Austen in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Roy and Lesley Adkins share t
Tudor times: 24- 27
There are things that we take for granted because we've always had them. For instance: Plumbing, running water, cars, the internet, smartpho
Yes, women got younger and younger over time... ?.? Should this be a thing?
The problem with Fantasy
Yadda yadda, I can do what I want, it's a Other world fantasy. Yadda Yadda, I don't have to follow history.
The main characters are human?
Yes.
The female character is 16 in Earth Years?
Yes.
The female character is getting married before their frontal cortex has had time to develop?
Yes.
It just leaves me feeling cold and like it's a bit skeevy. Historically they didn't do it or allow it, and why are you supporting child marriage. It feels creepy as hell.
And the fact incels go to Ye Olden times and think that the age was 14 and 13 based off of Shakespeare is a squint for me. It shows they don't know how to read older texts.
Why did you choose 16 of all ages anyway when it doesn't have historical support? It's creepy. It's often filled with feelings of grooming...
And also, the US is creepy as hell to allow a 13 year old to get married. Especially, and most especially places like Planned Parenthood which makes stupid reasons for why it should be allowed.
Some advocates want California to prohibit marriage for people under age 18. But groups including the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have oppos
It's a fantasy world, you can change it.
Also, I still think the marriage age should be more reasonable, like 18 or 20. One law of China I do like is the 20 years old for marriage, because at least they have some college under their belt.
I think these explain themselves, but for low vision users I'll type out the year+percentages.
2012
(Animals were last and white people had 93% of the market)
2015
0.9% American Indians/First Nations
2.4% Latinx
3.3% Asian Pacifics/Asian Pacific Americans
7.6% African/African American
(14.2)
12.5% Animals, trucks, etc
73.3% White
2018
1% American Indians/First Nations
5% Latinx
7% Asian Pacifics/Asian Pacific Americans
10% African/African American
(23%)
27% Animals, trucks, etc
50% White
So having these two infographics, you think everyone would get better and learn something, right? RIGHT?
2023
2% American Indians/First Nations
7% BIPOC/Unspecified
7% Latinx
11% Asian Pacifics/Asian Pacific Americans
12% African/African American
(39%)
28% White
33% Animals, trucks, etc
What's with the unspecified PoC? Mixed race YES. Unspecified in general is a ?.?
Animals have more representation than humans. Yay, we have the diversity of humans we need. (Obvious sarcasm) People are *cough* chickening out.
16% Black African
0.9% West Asian*
13% Asian
3% Indigenous
8% Latine
0.2% Pacific Islander
10% BIPOC
8% Multicultural
Note they put "Arab" but this is an error and they shouldn't have done it since Arab refers to people from Saudia Arabia.
In 2024, for the first time, over half (51%) of the titles the CCBC received had significant BIPOC content. This marks an increase from 49%
Is it improving? Or is it that publishers are not paying attention to shifting demographics of readers? <- Genuine question to think about in my Jewish mode of rhetoric.
All stats are from here:
https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/category/on-books-and-publishing/
So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Note: The list has gotten so long that I had to reorganize. (Thanks for the suggestions.) I UXed it best I could. I'm updating the best I can as notes come in. As such, I'm adding an update date since Tumblr doesn't update the old blogs with the newer version.
Update: US time. June 2, 2026 6:33
I have reached the post limit on this post. I can't add more links, even as plain text and also the character limit. I'm trying to figure a work around. This could be I have to split the post by type in the future and link it from there. OR I can link it to my own website.
Anyway, I originally added a section for Vivaldi, Brave, Ecosia, Paralives, and Bluesky all of which have been requested.
Too long, can't write it? Vivaldi is based on Google, and Google has a habit of blocking programmers who use their base code, also comes with its own search engine. Brave and Ecosia also are browsers come search engines with Brave bugging you every time you use a different search engine. I strongly advise against using a browser with the same search engine.
Paralives announced that it WILL NOT use AI and never will. I had a link... but I don't know if that will trip it.
And the Blue Sky thing I have to wait on.
***
This is tentative. But Barnes and Nobles is going to turn to the evil side:
The CEO of Barnes and Noble says he will stock AI written books.
We still have room to protest like hell and raise a firestorm.
Write to the CEO, call and harass them to back off of this idea.
There have been several requests to add programs, but either they aren't well populated, their projects are short, or they have the murkiest anti-AI statement I've ever read.
Additional Note: GenAI, an algorithm and AI tools aren't the same.
GenAI requires vast servers to constantly run 24-7, kicking up harmful fumes which are killing people, absorbing hospital energy, vast amounts of water, and generally killing the planet using data stolen from real people. This is bad. (links at the bottom)
Algorithms I've gone into detail before what they are and how they work on my post about Why Spell Check is not GenAI. Click the link. Too long for here.
AI tools run on your computer and are programmed using your power, not external servers. It depends on your RAM. It's not taken with stolen data from other users. Things like Gaussian Blur, etc might borderline be considered AI to some people (though not really) and things like smart tools (smart lasso), but this is not equal to GenAI in an ethics violation. So environmental impact depends on where you live, but certainly isn't purposefully giving other people cancer because they want a picture of Miyazaki-style selfie of themselves while totally being ignorant of the meaning of Miyazaki's films making people want to bash them over the head with a clue stick. These tools CAN run on large servers, but most scientists aren't running say, how to find the next prime number on vast huge servers in poor communities. GenAI, which is being used for cancer cure stuff, etc is in poor communities. Chess AI is run locally on your computer, but doesn't have as huge ethics issues. Tools the save time, but don't kill people isn't an ethics problem.
As such this focuses on GenAI, itself and the servers it runs on being an ethical violation on so many fronts.
Pro AI Stance is:
their user's data in and data out.
All companies that are willing to sell their customer's data for AI.
Gross support of GenAI, saying GenAI is the future, screw the poor people, goes here.
GenAI is added to the program at any level belongs here. App or program is a deliberate add.
Neutral Stance is:
For websites only: No data into GenAI or an easy opt out, but doesn't protect against AI content of any kind for websites explicitly. Sliding scale for how much of each. (Why different rules for websites v. programs/apps is about the bots.)
I try to tell you by how much with links.
For program/Apps, where they don't have a clear stance, or it feels like they might want to add it anyway and backstab the userbase. (See Toonboom. They are about to slide to the evil side...)
Also some not sure or no clear Anti-statement goes here.
Freeware and shareware without a clear statement also goes here.
Anti AI Stance is:
No data into AI no GenAI machine.
No GenAI added AND a clear anti-AI statement in their TOS and policies.
No Chatbots, LLMs anywhere in the program. Cannot prompt.
Open source, but do not list any third party plug-ins with genAI/LLMs on the website.
Extra points and higher listings for programs that are well populated, older and have a stable UX.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
Social Media
Facebook
Threads (owned by facebook)
Instagram
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok's servers gives people cancer)
Duolingo Language learning App
Discord went pro-GenAI:
Youtube went pro-genAI. This is different from the algorithm. They are owned by Google. They are using people's handmade subs for hearing impaired for the Large Language Models, which has shaky legal ground. It's currently being sued over. They are also adding to it anything to detect facial scans. Which has shown problems with racism before: (ACLU): https://www.aclu-mn.org/en/news/biased-technology-automated-discrimination-facial-recognition (Facial recognition note by Buds-and-baubles. See reblog.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnQ-s7LW-g They are also forcing creators to look like they are GenAI, genuine people, so they can pass their GenAI users under the radar. Creators aren't happy. Things like forced GenAI translation and weird "improvements" to art on shorts so that creators are complaining that their genuinely made content looks like it is genAI. This is where we're at. If they can't make creators embrace them, they will make human-created art look like GenAI.
Writing
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Re: Grammar Programs
BTW, I'm firm on the idea that grammar programs are really racist. So asking about grammar programs to replace Grammarly, will always be met with, use your own brain. If you want a long linguistics reasoning for this, or my long rants about Google Docs being too Texas-based on its grammar corrections, I can give it, but you wouldn't give a shit anyway. I know English is a fucked up language—I struggled through learning the illogical of it. I've said as much, but you know what you can do to get around that? Ask another human. Rely on the community around you to teach the rules instead of a machine and you'll maybe make some friends along the way. If you think this is cruel to actually be asked to interact with the writing community, and other humans, I would think more about what stances you are taking that you are that afraid of other humans. You shouldn't be using crutches for life and the best of grammar programs are also wrong. Longer linguistic/programming essay here: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/805143849449275392/why-grammarly-and-other-grammar-ai-is-secretly?source=share
Google Docs/Google- Going full on pro AI including Youtube. They are also suppressing anti-GenAI results on their search engine. (Duckduckgo isn't, BTW because I can see it on SearXNG.)
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Proton as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) is pro AI (as the reblog from McBitchTits pointed out) They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN. They came out with their own AI tool: https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai But also swears never to use their user's data: "Acknowledging these concerns and recognising that three in five (60%) workers would like to use AI despite four in five (79%) being concerned about the use of their private data for training purposes, Proton Scribe promises never to use data from users’ inboxes. The company backed up its claim by asserting that the standard end-to-end encryption makes this impossible." (https://www.techradar.com/pro/proton-is-launching-an-ai-tool-to-help-you-write-better-emails) I'd feel wary about that, especially if they get close to GenAI collapse. (Also that stat is crazy, either you're for it, or you're against it, if you're for it, you need to be on board with it using your data to feed the machine.). Proton's CEO also supported Trump.
Notion (I feel this was like a troll).
Novlr While they say they have an Anti-AI stance (last post) here: https://www.threads.com/@novlrofficial/post/C_immJrotiC Earlier thoughts on AI here: https://www.novlr.org/the-reading-room/ai-and-you-emerging-technology-and-what-it-means-for-writers/ Unfortunately they are still partnered with ProWritingAid, which is pro GenAI.
So it goes like this, originally Nanowrimo crashed out over GenAI because of ProWritingAid. Then Novlr SWORE they were anti-AI. Then they decided to backstab everyone and INTEGRATE ProWritingAid when got its data from GenAI. Not all grammar programs use AI as I've delineated before, but this one uses stolen data and their TOS is very murky. In case of total ignorance, I pointed this out to Novlr on Blue Sky (because what's the point of lecturing when you don't take action yourself?) They tried to back that it was integration only and would not correct either the claim that theirs was the first program to be made by a writer (As I said, I fact checked this and the creator of Scrivener was also writer first, a programmer second. And then Ywriter was on its heels soon after and blatantly said they were a writer when they created it).
Lifting open projects on grammar isn't that difficult since word processors are one of the first programs to be made. So making a grammar integration isn't that difficult, especially one without GenAI and LLMs attached. But they continue to blatantly support ProWritingAid. This makes them pro-GenAI.
They KNOW that ProWritingAid is pro GenAI and that Nannowrimo crashed out over it, 100% because I told them so. And then they doubled down. I would say this makes them shady at best and pro-GenAI. When they kick out ProWritingAid they can be anti again. In this case they are fat-faced lying their butts off on two counts and continuing to do so even after being notified. If a company lies while doing the thing they swear they aren't doing while making false claims, should you trust them? I say no.
Art
Sites
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine. There is an opt-out, but they made it labo[u]r intensive. You have to check it off EVERY TIME. And you can reduce, not eliminate GenAI in the results. This tips it over into being Pro-GenAI still. (last note modified per Usagi-Zakura's reblog) Find a better site below.
Pinterest went pro-GenAI [link] making the site unusable since it was often used for inspo from the REAL WORLD and REAL images to create weddings, etc. There is a way to "opt-out", but it's overrun with AI images even then.
ArtStation Leaned more pro-AI. Bills itself for "portfolios". Has no restrictions against AI in the TOS, but you can do the Deviant art thing of "check it every time if you don't want it". Urrgghhh No thanks. They also don't protect from AI scrapers, which they selectively could. They do "sternly warn" that AI has no copyright protection, and don't think it's morally wrong to put into portfolios AI art. (Yes, snark) Oh, yes, that'll really help. (Sarcasm).
Instagram As part of Facebook's meta, of course they are pro-AI, there is a way to opt out, if you're willing to give up your left kidney to get it. (i.e. they make it really difficult.)
Art Programs (Raster, and Vector)+ Suites
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law. Adobe wants to claim they don't feed their machine with your art, but that's not in the legal agreements and famously the legal agreements changed. Legal agreements can supersede other claims on the website, though one could theoretically sue for predatory practices, it's a harder case.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Photopea which is an image editing program went pro GenAI according to cat-of-many-faces in comments.
Affinity (Suite program) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos (I haven't checked out their InDesign equivalent). They SOLD to Canva (so much for that promise. This is in the same realm as Novlr. A huge backstab.)
Canva then officially added GenAI to Affinity and took the three programs and combined them into one. Then made it "free"
After version 2, do not download or buy. It's likely to use GenAI and is giving Canva profit. Right now it's borderline because it's a moral panic of if you want to give Canva profit.
My review for Affinity Designer is here: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/776698728716337152/affinity-designer-2weaknesses-and-strengths
Online Art Programs
Canva Takes and feeds their machine. Alternatives are Presentation software. (See LibreOffice) and Moodboard software. Not sure? Milanote doesn't have GenAI (or the search engines are suppressing the results, which I found recently is a thing), but also no anti-AI stance. Creativit on Mac has a Moodboard function without AI (for now) No anti-AI stance, but snap.
Snappa has GenAI
Pixlr (This one hurt me personally)
3D Modeling
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Epic Games: Sketch Fab Caveat:
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Art Sharing Clouds, Website Creation, etc (Specialized, not part of a Suite.)
DropBox went Pro-AI causing massive backlash against the company.
QuarkXPress added GenAI in 2025 [Link]
Figma has GenAI
Pro GenAI Colleges and Universities
Ah, yes, we're at this stage of late stage capitalism. DO NOT submit to these places without a clear contract and writing that you do not consent on every piece of art to feed a GenAI machine. Or simply instruct all people to not submit.
Please, please add to this list. You can send it to me anonymously. I am safe because I'm going to an anti-GenAI college with no plans to try to get a BA or a Masters. I will check your claim. They can be within the US or outside of the US.
Cal Arts is Pro GenAI. Students are protesting, but they are suppressing their free speech. This confirms Walt Disney is also Pro GenAI. It's risky to even apply here. Scraping is next step. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cbpu7IQEts
Otis College of Art and Design is pushing GenAI (according to the comment section of the previous video) and I confirmed it here:
Otis College LibGuides: AI Literacy: Defining AI, GenAI, & LLMs
They couldn't even bother to have pictures of real students at the college?
Neutral ground:
Social Media
Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai They did sell the data to OpenAI, but there is an opt out, and they block GenAI bots. The report about it is here. Shaky ground. Leans more toward Pro-AI. (See comments for correction and added last sentence).
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). They also still allow people to post AI images/text on the website. There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots). Theyrrefused the restrictive Mississippi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku3VpRIFEcM
Mastodon *might* have some anti-AI art community servers on it. When I looked there are some servers that are explicitly aggressive about being anti-AI in moderation. It's a bit difficult for those not tech savvy to use. Because of its decentralized nature (more so than Blue Sky) it's easier to filter for anti-AI art. Because it's decentralized, though, the rest of the servers ould have AI art.
Cannot find AI stances for:
Final Draft who refuses to make a stance either way.
Celtx threatened to go proAI/LLM during the screenwriter's strike of all times. I wrote them a really strongly worded letter (without swearing) which basically was a, "Are you serious when you know what this strike is about?" and then they went radio silent. I think they are hoping it blows over so they can be pro again.
By the way, I worked on two (free) templates for Scrivener to replace Final Draft and Celtx somewhat:
UK version: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/791598143262392320/better-uk-screenwriting-scrivener-template?source=share
US/AUS/NZ/CAN: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/791465354153082880/better-screenplay-scrivener-template-north?source=share
Here are two extra language charts I also worked on.
💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 4 · Sorta an easier way to language chart Phonemes within Scrivener? · So I spent 2.5 days in really bad heat TT HTMLing the ch
No one else is making Scrivener templates on this website... so...
PaintTool Sai *only* works on Windows. Located in Japan. Updates are slow. It only does raster (Clip Studio Paint technically does both raster and vector). As it's shareware, it's not reliable to say if the creator is anti or pro. Unlike the defenders say, it's NOT open source, so no, that doesn't guarantee anything at all.
Search Engine Replacement
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
DuckDuckGo (Find in the pulldown menu)- You can turn off the AI results for images and AI. Link shared by selkie-on-land in reblog. It's not perfect, but can be done. Change the default search engine default to: noai.duckduckgo.com (This is better results than web.google.com) DuckDuckgo (from my searxng search engine) also gets consistently non-slanted results for topics like ai, etc. For Firefox go to Search->Search Shortcuts->Add->plug in for the Site Name: No AI DuckDuckGo; URL: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=%s->scroll up and hit "Default search engine" and change it to "No AI DuckDuckGo"
Ublacklist extension: DuckDuckGo is not perfect, so how do you make it perfect so it'll block places like Diffusion AI and the other egregious and gregarious websites? Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/ Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmialoiaghdehhbnbhkkgmjanfhe?hl=en Note that the default setting is for it to work ONLY for Google, but you can expand it to other results.
Options->"Other search engines"->flip the switch on the search engines you want it to apply to.->It'll give you a dialogue box when you first do it, confirm.
There will be some blank results on your page and it might take a little longer to load, but it is better than having a fit every time you see another picture of waifish waifu in non-hanbok. (And yes, I know waifu is a Japanese word, that's the point) or historically inaccurate clothes that make you want to stab someone, preferably the programmer who thought that Victorian clothes all look the same by decade and location. My search results are much, much better.
Remove GenAI from Firefox
Super annoying. Especially with pop ups. 2. The person who had this idea needs to be corrected repeatedly. 3. Poor implementation.
Not going to click the link... even though it gives you visuals. Three hamburger menu->Settings. Uncheck "Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups" This results in annoying popup menus. (The link misses unchecking this)
Under General->Browser Layout->Show sidebar Uncheck AI chatbot in the sidebar.
Then go to about:config, accept the risk, search for "chat" and change the settings for: "browser.ml.chat.menu" to false (click the double sided arrow). If you hate it that much, you can also change the footerbadge, menubadge, shortcuts, shortcutscustom, and sidebar also to false.
Go curse the people who decided to add this and implement it and ask them to permanently remove it.
Writing
Obsidian-It's a writing and organizational tool. Plugins may contain genAI company doesn't vet them according to borealtwilight in comments.
AO3 (Archive of Our Own)- Gets Data scraped. So they made an AI statement, but it's on Neutral ground. They are protecting lightly from scraping: https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/25888 But you still have to do the work yourself to block the bots and put yourself on private. They will allow GenAI words. They've been scraped twice already. https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/1k6a3t6/ao3_has_been_scraped_again_for_genai_purposes/ O.o; I've never seen a site cooperate this much with "researchers" that they are willing to get scraped and not block scraping. They are blocking the specific GenAI bots. Your choice in this case. Leaning more neutral neutral, in this case, given the statement.
If you would like to block scrapers (suggested by Benwvatt, see reblog), then try:
WARNING, though, that it will block text readers, so may block dyslexic, Low vision, blind, etc readers.
It randomly inserts words into the sentence at random intervals when the fic is downloaded.
Art
Sites
Newgrounds: Stronger on the no AI art side, but still allow pieces in specific cases, it's not a total ban. Allowed AI is highlighted in bold to make it easier to skim.:
AI-generated art is not allowed in the Art Portal. This includes using tools such as Midjourney, Dall-E, and CrAIyon, in addition fractal generators and websites like ArtBreeder, where the user selects two images and they are combined into a new image via machine learning.
There are cases where some use of AI is ok, for example if you are primarily showcasing your character art but use an AI-generated background. In these cases, please note any elements where AI was used so that it is clear to users and moderators.
Tracing and coloring over AI-generated art is something best shared on your blog, as it is much like tracing over someone else's art.
Making art from scratch that is inspired by an AI piece is ok. Here are two good examples: Maiden of Flames and Hermin. Both pieces reference the AI art they are based on while being original pieces in their own right.
Bottom line: We want to keep the focus on art made by people and not have the Art Portal flooded with computer-generated art. https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/art-guidelines
Cara is totally anti-AI in contrast. You would be too if someone profited from your artwork by simply reversing it and changing the color scheme a little.
BTW, It's BS to call Backgrounds not real art. Tips it more towards pro-AI.
Wacom?: This one confuses the hell out of me, but apparently Wacom is running contests, etc with GenAI. Apparently they did this a few times. Proof: https://x.com/meganroseruiz/status/1743759432268607843. Honestly makes me a bit reticent about Yuify... https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/yuify Look, I love Wacom, I really do, and was a loyal customer long before screen tablets were a thing, but this seriously confuses the hell out of me. Why support the technology that will make your tech obsolete? The problem is Wacom has done this repeatedly. For contests, promos, etc, in Japanese and Japanese people have also called them out repeatedly. (They are now owned by a pro-AI company testing out users). I get you want more reliable source, so here: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24031468/wacom-wizards-of-the-coast-mtg-artists-against-generative-ai
This is seriously confusing where to put Wacom. It's split loyalties at this point.
Other tablet companies? Huion continues to "teach a course on AI" and XP Pen says they don't promote GenAI and got scammed by an artist, but have not used AI art in their promotions since. Reddit, but they link to the evidence in the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/wacom/comments/190lubo/promoting_ai_art_and_forgoing_real_artists_just/
Suites:
ToonBoomHarmony- This is an animation suite, since it has a set of programs. No Anti-AI statement. There are AI tools (not the same as AI) which is heavily being questioned on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ToonBoomHarmony/comments/1j8s9yc/ai_tools_harmony_is_cooked/ with some implications they are stopping listening to customers since they took down their forums and are now switching to the next mode of enshittification Stage 3. People objected heavily, hating on the AI tools, the implementation was horrid, they didn't fix any of the base bugs before launching (which UX people would tell you not to do). When customers flooded in to complain about the AI tools being terrible, they shut down ALL of forums by DELETING THEM (which is enshittification step number 3). While not GenAI, it's implied that might be a next step to please the investors.
They are a hair way from putting in GenAI anyway, despite objections to the AI tools.
Enshittification
1. Good to their end users, but needs to find a way to lock those end users in.
2. Platforms abuse their users to tempt in business customers. Business customers become locked into the platform.
3. Claws back all the value from business customers and end users.
(Oh look, a cloud the company owns. Oh look, we own that cloud. You're OK with that, RRRRIIIGHHHTT). And then it's betraying the customer base for the stockholders and the program becomes hell and then the company shuts down when it loses it's customer face in a huge Pikachu move. I Didn'tKnowYouHadtoPleaseCustomersFirstToMakeMoney So they are at step 3 out of 3. Harmony essentials is USD 29.00 / month, Advanced is USD 73.00 / month, Premium is USD 133.00 / month. Storyboard Pro: USD 75.00 / month Producer "cannot access files unless they are uploaded" How much is your first born worth? Oh and UX people would have effing told you to fix your bugs with the release of new features... say like SIMS4, without adding new ones. SIMS4. I paid over 5,000 dollars for a game that functionally breaks because it's built on a house of cards of not fixing the base code and doing patches instead. (My Dad [a programmer] had an hour lecture on why this was a terrible idea too and told me this was why Microsoft Windows kept getting hacked).
Online Art Programs
Milanote?- Moodboard software. To get full features you have to pay per month (which isn't ideal since the free version is very, very limited) There is no pro or anti-genAI statement I can find. But so far there is no GenAI on the platform. This is a *not sure* category.
Creativit- is offline, free and on Mac only Moodboard software. It's a pretty straight forward program, so no AI. Has snapping features and no frills. Since they are small, it doesn't have AI, but there is no anti-AI statement either.
Art Sharing Clouds, Website Creation, etc (Specialized, not part of a Suite.)
WeTransfer has a murky TOS statement. https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/789157028107010048/we-transfer-went-to-the-genai-dark-side?source=share which I covered here. They swear they won't, but then they didn't specify they wouldn't in the TOS. As I said, you can sue for deceptive practices, but doesn't mean you will win.
Strong positions against AI
Social Media
Pillowfort- This is a social media website. Somewhere between Tumblr and Deviant Art. They banned all AI images. They don't have a social media algorithm. (So you won't be on top of each other. You have to earn your own followers.)
Item 13 of the Banned images section of their terms of service: https://www.pillowfort.social/termsofservice
A bit of a jab to put the item between "No prohibited images of minors" and "revenge porn". (basically lack of consent)
Suggested by lindwurmkai
I read the other TOS too, and it seems pretty fair and in plain language.
Thunderbirdmail (not released yet)
At DarkHorse IT, we love seeing tech that aligns with our values—privacy, transparency, and putting the user first. That’s why we’ve always
Released to be competition to Google mail without the privacy glitches of Gmail and have NO AI. It's open source, yet private, and has a lot of the features of Gmail, no equivalent of Google Docs and no equivalent to online spreadsheet, but still free. But will have other appendages, like scheduler, etc.
Writing
Offline (mostly)
Scrivener (Creator vowed against adding GenAI during Nanowrimo scandal #2 on Twitter. Request for AI features has been denied.) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
Scrivener works with Mac, Windows and Linux (with some fussing): https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/tutorial-running-scrivener-3-1-5-1-under-linux-w-wine-64bit-with-activation/136046
Also has sharing and comparing versions capability as long as you have a cloud harddisk. (Be sure to check out cloud services that are safe)
There was a question of if they added GenAI, but that proves to be false. Up through November 2025 they have sworn against GenAI. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scrivener-and-ai-why-do-i-see-ai-prompts-in-my-scrivener-projects-on-mac
I have made a Better Script Template for US/CAN/AUS/NZ:
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 3 · Better Screenplay Scrivener Template (US/ CAN/AUS/NZ) · Posted: Saturday, August 9, 2025
Updated: Monday August 11, 2025
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One for the UK: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/791598143262392320/better-uk-screenwriting-scrivener-template?source=share
I have a Better Novel Template as well: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/750865969317052416/better-novel-scrivener-template?source=share
I am in no way affiliated with Scrivener. If you have issues, with the program, please direct it to the forums.
With any of the templates, be sure to read ALL instructions first BEFORE downloading, including the Read Me in order to get it to work. I never write any instructions that are unnecessary.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Office (Word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing, formula, database creator). Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener because of the worse UX.
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener). Scrivener, for the 59 dollars a month has all of the same features of Dabble at Premium, making Dabble in total more than triple the price of Scrivener. You choose.
NovelWriter is an Open source writing program done offline. It has less capabilities than Scrivener or YWriter or Dabble. (Can't make templates, Can't save to cloud to compare) The GUI isn't as slick, but because of that it's super easy to use and lower entry in learning curve. (anonymous suggestion through inbox)
StudioBinder- is a script to video production software. Made an Anti-GenAI statement on their Youtube channel (see below).
This is not an official Anti-AI stance and might be tongue-in-cheek. But does look serious as something they are NOT interested in. Pricing is here: https://app.studiobinder.com/pricing
Phone/Online Writing
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI [Link]. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a German-based company in Berlin.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. (Find on the Android app store) The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ programmer took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Art
Sites
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the creator, is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Artgram is an art posting website with a super strong Anti-AI statement It will delete all Ai art and has detection measures in place. And signatures added to the art so they can form you legal protection and make takedown requests. It is free to use.
Fur Affinity Hard ban on All AI use, not even backgrounds. Furry Art posting website. BTW, found this and Artgram on this website: https://brushwarriors.com/art-websites-that-ban-ai/ which does not show as any kind of result on Google, because Google is trying to block anti-AI content as of last week from the search results. (About the day after I posted the Grok gives poor people cancer). You can only find it using a searxng search.
Handmade vowed against AI (Selling any artwork with AI, and also drop shipping, etc) and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
Discover a world of creativity and craftsmanship through Handmade, an innovative platform connecting passionate artisans with discerning buy
Art Programs (Raster, and Vector)+ Suites
Clip Studio Paint is a mostly raster, somewhat Vector program that does comics, illustration and animation. They added genAI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. It can do 2D animation, and generally is a replacement for Corel Painter and can do manga/comics, etc. I'd still recommend paying for the offline version rather than monthly subscription just in case they change their minds back, at least you'll still have the program AI free without worry about them stealing directly as you're drawing. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean [Explanation].
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
OpenToonz is an anti-AI open source animation program. It's almost identical to Tahoma 2D, but has less responsive forums (I tried both) and on a Mac, you can't customize which drive it saves to. Tahoma's forums responded within hours, Opentoonz, I gave a week and got no response. Tahoma, in these regards is ahead. Tahoma has their own forum, v. OpenToonz which is on github, so your response gets lost. (If anyone wants to fix it). (Suggested add by anonymous via inbox, opinions my own.)
Krita is a raster-only open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
As gathered by erkhyan: As of 15 April 2026, discussing or distributing genAI plugins and related tools isn’t allowed on the Krita forums anymore.
Rebelle- Honestly tipping towards Neutral with their Anti-AI statement found here: https://www.escapemotions.com/blog/escape-motions-stands-by-artists but just enough to make them anti. I'd keep an eye on them. Here are some of the neutral statements I'd red flag: "Rebelle's NanoPixel export, for example, allows you to scale your images up to 16x for larger export files, which would not be possible without machine-learning technology. Many artists agree that AI art is a powerful tool but believe it shouldn't be celebrated in the same way as human-created art." "We believe images created with AI can serve for inspiration but to just put a whole painting together through AI is not in alignment with our vision."
They are on Cara, though and their protections against scraping and attempts to prove copyright for their artists is heartening. Still, GenAi is terrible for the planet and doesn't serve as great inspiration.
Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
StudioBinder- is a script to video production software. But I put them also down here because it can also do Moodboards. Made an Anti-GenAI statement on their Youtube channel:
This is not an official Anti-AI stance and might be tongue-in-cheek. But does look serious as something they are NOT interested in. Pricing is here: https://app.studiobinder.com/pricing
GIMP- Open source 2D Image editing software. Works natively on Linux, can kinda port to Mac, and kinda works on Windows. It has less features than Krita and has generally fallen out of favor with the public for not being able to keep up as well. The UX isn't bad, but use Krita instead. You'll be happier. Krita is Mac and Windows stable and works on Linux. There isn't any extra fancy things you need to do with Krita to DL it and Krita is fairly intuitive if you know Photoshop.
Moho- is a 2D animation software. Anti AI Stance is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMFeLjLWFd4 . This was originally made by Mike Clifton at Lost Marble and then the name changed to Anime Studio under Smith Micro. Then it was changed back to Moho and then sold back to Lost Marble, LLC, who now has taken a strong stance against AI. There is a Pro version and a Debut version. The pro version is 399.99 USD (as of 2025) Debut is 59.99. There is a student discount too.
Online Art Programs
ProCreate: Anti AI Stance as noted by mortavaine (in comments). It's an art Studio and can be used on an iPhone. 12.99 (currently) for the Art Studio one, time dealie, not reoccurring. 19.99 (currently) for the animation software. Based in Australia.
3D Modeling
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation. After Version 7-8 the UX vastly improved and a ton of features were added.
Art Sharing Clouds, Website Creation, etc (Specialized, not part of a Suite.)
Swiss Transfer: The Swiss government is going to put strict restrictions on AI and have pretty strict privacy laws. So they can't steal your content.
It has a better deal than WeTransfer did after the buyout.
In the fallout from WeTransfer there is also this list (but I haven't vetted it).
We compared 8 WeTransfer competitors based on functionality, use cases, user reviews, and of course, price. Which one is best for your needs
Because you need to send files to clients without breaking NDAs.
Scribus is a replacement for InDesign and can layout magazines. It doesn't use GenAI, BUT be careful since there is a AI gen named after the program. (Because of course they would.) The learning curve is hard and it's not as advanced as Adobe for things, but it can layout magazines decently. So click the link instead.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. Their CEO came hard against GenAI: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=205673 when it was brought up in the forums, as a request to add, there was a hard no from the CEO. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. Black Magic is an Aussie company, but the program's core was DaVinici Systems, a US company (Florida), where the program originated. DaVinci Systems was bought by Black Magic. Black Magic has offices in US (Bay area/Los Angeles), UK (Manchester), Netherlands (Amsterdam), Australia (Melbourne), Singapore, China (Beijing), Japan (Tokyo, Osaka), Korea (Seoul). Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts. primary-blog-nothing-here asserted that they took data in order to create AI, but this turned out to be not a true claim. AI Tools are not the same as Gen AI. All of the tools claimed on Davinici Resolve 20 are AI tools that existed before GenAI existed. (Mostly about precutting up the timeline based on different shots). If you object to AI tools, stop using Gaussian Blur. Really they put AI in front to make it seem fancier. It's only a little more complex than the smart selection tool. They won't take your data. Cloud won't be used to train AI which they added after the whole Dropbox debacle. https://nofilmschool.com/blackmagic-ai-training-stance Note that AI tools is not the same as GenAI.
ANTI-AI Colleges and and Universities
But you need a professional website...
Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/
Use cloudflare:
Use Nightshade:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
which will poison the algorithm and collapse the algorithm faster. I've seen Youtubers who are popular use it on their images they post to videos, and it made the AI bros irate. Some tried SOOO hard to argue how hopeless it was and how programmers would break the consent of artists. (Yeah, and they might wonder why they are single).
There are claims Nightshade, etc doesn't work, but the evidence it does is in this video.
I can go over the programming reasons it does as well. If it doesn't why are so many AI bros so upset every time someone uses it?
Use Glaze:
If you can't use Nightshade, use Glaze. You can't use Nightshade and Glaze at the same time, but some OS's and machines can't use Nightshade, so the secondary option is to use Glaze. This will blur your image enough in a particular way to make AI unable to read it.
Push companies towards anti-AI
Protest and Petition
Several sites gave in at least halfway or partially when people protested openly to the application. Crowd beats company every time. (Unless there are shareholders, in which case the next tip will help)
Don't buy monthly subscriptions when possible
This tip was on several Youtube videos (don't remember the creators' name, sorry, but I know one was a guy a long time ago). Newly made features every time you want to buy helps motivate the company to update, but also gives leverage to you, the consumer to actively protest the application and write a (Audrina) letter to the company.
Protest Monthly subscriptions. There was a really good video on the enshittification of Adobe, and it started around then, because that's when they became a Stock power. Don't give Stock Power to companies.
Look for Open Source Projects
They aren't rich enough to run servers, so won't add AI.
Convince Employers/Institutions that AI is not copyright protected and bad for branding.
Our biggest obstacle is here. As long as institutions get kickbacks from Adobe, etc and get donated funds, they are more than likely to use it as primary teaching material, which then undercuts their policies about no plagiarism. Point out that free programs are good or sometimes better than the paid ones AND it doesn't undercut their own message and they might convert.
Take Away
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scrapi
And why not help that along?
I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.
BTW, the information about poor communities having cancer from GenAI servers I got from Reese Waters who pointed out it's usually poor Black elderly communities. But especially Grok. Timestamp is 16:28.
UPDATE: I figured out if there is ONE more Hyperlink the post won't post. But this is the most up-to-date version.
Re: Blue Sky. As I said, I can't make a move until it's confirmed because I don't want to be sued and the reblogging system doesn't update the original post reblogged from.
Explained fully here:
https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/807272705145602048/tumblr-does-not-update-the-original-post-after?source=share
I have to cover my legal bases.
I'm inclined to move this mostly to my own website and link it from there, but keep the previous reblogs as evidence I had the full post here. I know HTML and all of that good stuff. I use tumblr because it's faster.
I want to add BBEdit to the (mildly AI) pile, but I'm also reaching a character and image limit.
If you have a vote, leave it in the comments. And yes, my notifications for this post are still on so I can keep this post up to date.
So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Note: The list has gotten so long that I had to reorganize. (Thanks for the suggestions.) I UXed it best I could. I'm updating the best I can as notes come in. As such, I'm adding an update date since Tumblr doesn't update the old blogs with the newer version.
Update: US time. May 19, 2026 5:31pm US time.
This is tentative. But Barnes and Nobles is going to turn to the evil side:
The CEO of Barnes and Noble says he will stock AI written books.
We still have room to protest like hell and raise a firestorm so that they are forced out of it, give him reports of the health problems caused by data centers and so on.
But yes, Barnes and Nobles is about to turn evil if we sit on our hands and do nothing. Time to crack some knuckles and let them know how much you hate this and give them warm stories of Barnes and Nobles mixed with reports of true stories of communities brought to their knees by data centers and health concerns.
Write to the CEO, call and harass them to back off of this idea.
April 16, 2026 There's an update on the Krita section added by reblog by Erkhyan. I give credit.
Previous change:
I changed UBlacklist so there are clearer instructions on how to add to Duckduckgo's search engine. ^^;; Feel a little dumb it took me this long to figure out.
There have been several requests to add programs, but either they aren't well populated, their projects are short, or they have the murkiest anti-AI statement I've ever read.
For example, I was told about this company, here, they were forced into anti-AI, but this seems a bit passive aggressive corporate speak for we hate you.:
Companies building AI tools must be ethically responsible in their products and with their audiences.
AI systems developers need to make a genuine effort to educate their users on how to use their tools responsibly and how to find ways to promote ethical practices.
As AI integrations become more commonplace for creative design tools, we feel strongly that it is imperative for developers to consider the impacts being made to the creative communities at large, and if need be, be willing to take a stand and adapt or forgo unethical AI models.
The industry must monitor the impact of new tools in terms of both positive and negative effects.
We believe that it’s our responsibility to build art tools, which ultimately make us smarter and more skilled - contributing to a happier and better society.
So no talk about environmental impact, passive aggressive around the edges, "AI systems developers need to make a genuine effort to educate their users on how to use their tools responsibly" is really passive aggressive considering it was users trying to get them to change their policy.
And even when they have support for the artist, the statement seems to undercut it...
Artists who have devoted years into developing their skills and individual style made generative AI possible, and they deserve recognition.
I also attempted to contact the company with no response.
So I'm reluctant to add them because it seems like they really, really want to add it, and will backstab the userbase as soon as possible.
Additional Note: GenAI, an algorithm and AI tools aren't the same.
GenAI requires vast servers to constantly run 24-7, kicking up harmful fumes which are killing people, absorbing hospital energy, vast amounts of water, and generally killing the planet using data stolen from real people. This is bad. (links at the bottom)
Algorithms I've gone into detail before what they are and how they work on my post about Why Spell Check is not GenAI. Click the link. Too long for here.
AI tools run on your computer and are programmed using your power, not external servers. It depends on your RAM. It's not taken with stolen data from other users. Things like Gaussian Blur, etc might borderline be considered AI to some people (though not really) and things like smart tools (smart lasso), but this is not equal to GenAI in an ethics violation. So environmental impact depends on where you live, but certainly isn't purposefully giving other people cancer because they want a picture of Miyazaki-style selfie of themselves while totally being ignorant of the meaning of Miyazaki's films making people want to bash them over the head with a clue stick. These tools CAN run on large servers, but most scientists aren't running say, how to find the next prime number on vast huge servers in poor communities. GenAI, which is being used for cancer cure stuff, etc is in poor communities. Chess AI is run locally on your computer, but doesn't have as huge ethics issues. Tools the save time, but don't kill people isn't an ethics problem.
As such this focuses on GenAI, itself and the servers it runs on being an ethical violation on so many fronts.
Pro AI Stance is:
their user's data in and data out.
All companies that are willing to sell their customer's data for AI.
Gross support of GenAI, saying GenAI is the future, screw the poor people, goes here.
GenAI is added to the program at any level belongs here. App or program is a deliberate add.
Neutral Stance is:
For websites only: No data into GenAI or an easy opt out, but doesn't protect against AI content of any kind for websites explicitly. Sliding scale for how much of each. (Why different rules for websites v. programs/apps is about the bots.)
I try to tell you by how much with links.
For program/Apps, where they don't have a clear stance, or it feels like they might want to add it anyway and backstab the userbase. (See Toonboom. They are about to slide to the evil side...)
Also some not sure or no clear Anti-statement goes here.
Freeware and shareware without a clear statement also goes here.
Anti AI Stance is:
No data into AI no GenAI machine.
No GenAI added AND a clear anti-AI statement in their TOS and policies.
No Chatbots, LLMs anywhere in the program. Cannot prompt.
Open source, but do not list any third party plug-ins with genAI/LLMs on the website.
Extra points and higher listings for programs that are well populated, older and have a stable UX.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
Social Media
Facebook
Threads (owned by facebook)
Instagram
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok's servers gives people cancer)
Duolingo Language learning App
Discord went pro-GenAI:
Youtube went pro-genAI. This is different from the algorithm. They are owned by Google. They are using people's handmade subs for hearing impaired for the Large Language Models, which has shaky legal ground. It's currently being sued over. They are also adding to it anything to detect facial scans. Which has shown problems with racism before: (ACLU): https://www.aclu-mn.org/en/news/biased-technology-automated-discrimination-facial-recognition (Facial recognition note by Buds-and-baubles. See reblog.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnQ-s7LW-g They are also forcing creators to look like they are GenAI, genuine people, so they can pass their GenAI users under the radar. Creators aren't happy. Things like forced GenAI translation and weird "improvements" to art on shorts so that creators are complaining that their genuinely made content looks like it is genAI. This is where we're at. If they can't make creators embrace them, they will make human-created art look like GenAI.
Writing
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Re: Grammar Programs
BTW, I'm firm on the idea that grammar programs are really racist. So asking about grammar programs to replace Grammarly, will always be met with, use your own brain. If you want a long linguistics reasoning for this, or my long rants about Google Docs being too Texas-based on its grammar corrections, I can give it, but you wouldn't give a shit anyway. I know English is a fucked up language—I struggled through learning the illogical of it. I've said as much, but you know what you can do to get around that? Ask another human. Rely on the community around you to teach the rules instead of a machine and you'll maybe make some friends along the way. If you think this is cruel to actually be asked to interact with the writing community, and other humans, I would think more about what stances you are taking that you are that afraid of other humans. You shouldn't be using crutches for life and the best of grammar programs are also wrong. Longer linguistic/programming essay here: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/805143849449275392/why-grammarly-and-other-grammar-ai-is-secretly?source=share
Google Docs/Google- Going full on pro AI including Youtube. They are also suppressing anti-GenAI results on their search engine. (Duckduckgo isn't, BTW because I can see it on SearXNG.)
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Proton as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) is pro AI (as the reblog from McBitchTits pointed out) They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN. They came out with their own AI tool: https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai But also swears never to use their user's data: "Acknowledging these concerns and recognising that three in five (60%) workers would like to use AI despite four in five (79%) being concerned about the use of their private data for training purposes, Proton Scribe promises never to use data from users’ inboxes. The company backed up its claim by asserting that the standard end-to-end encryption makes this impossible." (https://www.techradar.com/pro/proton-is-launching-an-ai-tool-to-help-you-write-better-emails) I'd feel wary about that, especially if they get close to GenAI collapse. (Also that stat is crazy, either you're for it, or you're against it, if you're for it, you need to be on board with it using your data to feed the machine.). Proton's CEO also supported Trump.
Notion (I feel this was like a troll).
Novlr While they say they have an Anti-AI stance (last post) here: https://www.threads.com/@novlrofficial/post/C_immJrotiC Earlier thoughts on AI here: https://www.novlr.org/the-reading-room/ai-and-you-emerging-technology-and-what-it-means-for-writers/ Unfortunately they are still partnered with ProWritingAid, which is pro GenAI.
So it goes like this, originally Nanowrimo crashed out over GenAI because of ProWritingAid. Then Novlr SWORE they were anti-AI. Then they decided to backstab everyone and INTEGRATE ProWritingAid when got its data from GenAI. Not all grammar programs use AI as I've delineated before, but this one uses stolen data and their TOS is very murky. In case of total ignorance, I pointed this out to Novlr on Blue Sky (because what's the point of lecturing when you don't take action yourself?) They tried to back that it was integration only and would not correct either the claim that theirs was the first program to be made by a writer (As I said, I fact checked this and the creator of Scrivener was also writer first, a programmer second. And then Ywriter was on its heels soon after and blatantly said they were a writer when they created it).
Lifting open projects on grammar isn't that difficult since word processors are one of the first programs to be made. So making a grammar integration isn't that difficult, especially one without GenAI and LLMs attached. But they continue to blatantly support ProWritingAid. This makes them pro-GenAI.
They KNOW that ProWritingAid is pro GenAI and that Nannowrimo crashed out over it, 100% because I told them so. And then they doubled down. I would say this makes them shady at best and pro-GenAI. When they kick out ProWritingAid they can be anti again. In this case they are fat-faced lying their butts off on two counts and continuing to do so even after being notified. If a company lies while doing the thing they swear they aren't doing while making false claims, should you trust them? I say no.
Art
Sites
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine. There is an opt-out, but they made it labo[u]r intensive. You have to check it off EVERY TIME. And you can reduce, not eliminate GenAI in the results. This tips it over into being Pro-GenAI still. (last note modified per Usagi-Zakura's reblog) Find a better site below.
Pinterest went pro-GenAI [link] making the site unusable since it was often used for inspo from the REAL WORLD and REAL images to create weddings, etc. There is a way to "opt-out", but it's overrun with AI images even then.
ArtStation Leaned more pro-AI. Bills itself for "portfolios". Has no restrictions against AI in the TOS, but you can do the Deviant art thing of "check it every time if you don't want it". Urrgghhh No thanks. They also don't protect from AI scrapers, which they selectively could. They do "sternly warn" that AI has no copyright protection, and don't think it's morally wrong to put into portfolios AI art. (Yes, snark) Oh, yes, that'll really help. (Sarcasm).
Instagram As part of Facebook's meta, of course they are pro-AI, there is a way to opt out, if you're willing to give up your left kidney to get it. (i.e. they make it really difficult.)
Art Programs (Raster, and Vector)+ Suites
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law. Adobe wants to claim they don't feed their machine with your art, but that's not in the legal agreements and famously the legal agreements changed. Legal agreements can supersede other claims on the website, though one could theoretically sue for predatory practices, it's a harder case.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Photopea which is an image editing program went pro GenAI according to cat-of-many-faces in comments.
Affinity (Suite program) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos (I haven't checked out their InDesign equivalent). They SOLD to Canva (so much for that promise. This is in the same realm as Novlr. A huge backstab.)
Canva then officially added GenAI to Affinity and took the three programs and combined them into one. Then made it "free"
After version 2, do not download or buy. It's likely to use GenAI and is giving Canva profit. Right now it's borderline because it's a moral panic of if you want to give Canva profit.
My review for Affinity Designer is here: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/776698728716337152/affinity-designer-2weaknesses-and-strengths
Online Art Programs
Canva Takes and feeds their machine. Alternatives are Presentation software. (See LibreOffice) and Moodboard software. Not sure? Milanote doesn't have GenAI (or the search engines are suppressing the results, which I found recently is a thing), but also no anti-AI stance. Creativit on Mac has a Moodboard function without AI (for now) No anti-AI stance, but snap.
Snappa has GenAI
Pixlr (This one hurt me personally)
3D Modeling
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Epic Games: Sketch Fab Caveat:
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Art Sharing Clouds, Website Creation, etc (Specialized, not part of a Suite.)
DropBox went Pro-AI causing massive backlash against the company.
QuarkXPress added GenAI in 2025 [Link]
Figma has GenAI
Pro GenAI Colleges and Universities
Ah, yes, we're at this stage of late stage capitalism. DO NOT submit to these places without a clear contract and writing that you do not consent on every piece of art to feed a GenAI machine. Or simply instruct all people to not submit.
Please, please add to this list. You can send it to me anonymously. I am safe because I'm going to an anti-GenAI college with no plans to try to get a BA or a Masters. I will check your claim. They can be within the US or outside of the US.
Cal Arts is Pro GenAI. Students are protesting, but they are suppressing their free speech. This confirms Walt Disney is also Pro GenAI. It's risky to even apply here. Scraping is next step. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cbpu7IQEts
Otis College of Art and Design is pushing GenAI (according to the comment section of the previous video) and I confirmed it here:
Otis College LibGuides: AI Literacy: Defining AI, GenAI, & LLMs
They couldn't even bother to have pictures of real students at the college?
Neutral ground:
Social Media
Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai They did sell the data to OpenAI, but there is an opt out, and they block GenAI bots. The report about it is here. Shaky ground. Leans more toward Pro-AI. (See comments for correction and added last sentence).
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). They also still allow people to post AI images/text on the website. There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots). Theyrrefused the restrictive Mississippi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku3VpRIFEcM
Mastodon *might* have some anti-AI art community servers on it. When I looked there are some servers that are explicitly aggressive about being anti-AI in moderation. It's a bit difficult for those not tech savvy to use. Because of its decentralized nature (more so than Blue Sky) it's easier to filter for anti-AI art. Because it's decentralized, though, the rest of the servers ould have AI art.
Cannot find AI stances for:
Final Draft who refuses to make a stance either way.
Celtx threatened to go proAI/LLM during the screenwriter's strike of all times. I wrote them a really strongly worded letter (without swearing) which basically was a, "Are you serious when you know what this strike is about?" and then they went radio silent. I think they are hoping it blows over so they can be pro again.
By the way, I worked on two (free) templates for Scrivener to replace Final Draft and Celtx somewhat:
UK version: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/791598143262392320/better-uk-screenwriting-scrivener-template?source=share
US/AUS/NZ/CAN: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/791465354153082880/better-screenplay-scrivener-template-north?source=share
Here are two extra language charts I also worked on.
💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 4 · Sorta an easier way to language chart Phonemes within Scrivener? · So I spent 2.5 days in really bad heat TT HTMLing the ch
No one else is making Scrivener templates on this website... so...
PaintTool Sai *only* works on Windows. Located in Japan. Updates are slow. It only does raster (Clip Studio Paint technically does both raster and vector). As it's shareware, it's not reliable to say if the creator is anti or pro. Unlike the defenders say, it's NOT open source, so no, that doesn't guarantee anything at all.
Search Engine Replacement
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
DuckDuckGo (Find in the pulldown menu)- You can turn off the AI results for images and AI. Link shared by selkie-on-land in reblog. It's not perfect, but can be done. Change the default search engine default to: noai.duckduckgo.com (This is better results than web.google.com) DuckDuckgo (from my searxng search engine) also gets consistently non-slanted results for topics like ai, etc. For Firefox go to Search->Search Shortcuts->Add->plug in for the Site Name: No AI DuckDuckGo; URL: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=%s->scroll up and hit "Default search engine" and change it to "No AI DuckDuckGo"
Ublacklist extension: DuckDuckGo is not perfect, so how do you make it perfect so it'll block places like Diffusion AI and the other egregious and gregarious websites? Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/ Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmialoiaghdehhbnbhkkgmjanfhe?hl=en Note that the default setting is for it to work ONLY for Google, but you can expand it to other results.
Options->"Other search engines"->flip the switch on the search engines you want it to apply to.->It'll give you a dialogue box when you first do it, confirm.
There will be some blank results on your page and it might take a little longer to load, but it is better than having a fit every time you see another picture of waifish waifu in non-hanbok. (And yes, I know waifu is a Japanese word, that's the point) or historically inaccurate clothes that make you want to stab someone, preferably the programmer who thought that Victorian clothes all look the same by decade and location. My search results are much, much better.
Remove GenAI from Firefox
Super annoying. Especially with pop ups. 2. The person who had this idea needs to be corrected repeatedly. 3. Poor implementation.
Not going to click the link... even though it gives you visuals. Three hamburger menu->Settings. Uncheck "Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups" This results in annoying popup menus. (The link misses unchecking this)
Under General->Browser Layout->Show sidebar Uncheck AI chatbot in the sidebar.
Then go to about:config, accept the risk, search for "chat" and change the settings for: "browser.ml.chat.menu" to false (click the double sided arrow). If you hate it that much, you can also change the footerbadge, menubadge, shortcuts, shortcutscustom, and sidebar also to false.
Go curse the people who decided to add this and implement it and ask them to permanently remove it.
Writing
Obsidian-It's a writing and organizational tool. Plugins may contain genAI company doesn't vet them according to borealtwilight in comments.
AO3 (Archive of Our Own)- Gets Data scraped. So they made an AI statement, but it's on Neutral ground. They are protecting lightly from scraping: https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/25888 But you still have to do the work yourself to block the bots and put yourself on private. They will allow GenAI words. They've been scraped twice already. https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/1k6a3t6/ao3_has_been_scraped_again_for_genai_purposes/ O.o; I've never seen a site cooperate this much with "researchers" that they are willing to get scraped and not block scraping. They are blocking the specific GenAI bots. Your choice in this case. Leaning more neutral neutral, in this case, given the statement.
If you would like to block scrapers (suggested by Benwvatt, see reblog), then try:
WARNING, though, that it will block text readers, so may block dyslexic, Low vision, blind, etc readers.
It randomly inserts words into the sentence at random intervals when the fic is downloaded.
Art
Sites
Newgrounds: Stronger on the no AI art side, but still allow pieces in specific cases, it's not a total ban. Allowed AI is highlighted in bold to make it easier to skim.:
AI-generated art is not allowed in the Art Portal. This includes using tools such as Midjourney, Dall-E, and CrAIyon, in addition fractal generators and websites like ArtBreeder, where the user selects two images and they are combined into a new image via machine learning.
There are cases where some use of AI is ok, for example if you are primarily showcasing your character art but use an AI-generated background. In these cases, please note any elements where AI was used so that it is clear to users and moderators.
Tracing and coloring over AI-generated art is something best shared on your blog, as it is much like tracing over someone else's art.
Making art from scratch that is inspired by an AI piece is ok. Here are two good examples: Maiden of Flames and Hermin. Both pieces reference the AI art they are based on while being original pieces in their own right.
Bottom line: We want to keep the focus on art made by people and not have the Art Portal flooded with computer-generated art. https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/art-guidelines
Cara is totally anti-AI in contrast. You would be too if someone profited from your artwork by simply reversing it and changing the color scheme a little.
BTW, It's BS to call Backgrounds not real art. Tips it more towards pro-AI.
Wacom?: This one confuses the hell out of me, but apparently Wacom is running contests, etc with GenAI. Apparently they did this a few times. Proof: https://x.com/meganroseruiz/status/1743759432268607843. Honestly makes me a bit reticent about Yuify... https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/yuify Look, I love Wacom, I really do, and was a loyal customer long before screen tablets were a thing, but this seriously confuses the hell out of me. Why support the technology that will make your tech obsolete? The problem is Wacom has done this repeatedly. For contests, promos, etc, in Japanese and Japanese people have also called them out repeatedly. (They are now owned by a pro-AI company testing out users). I get you want more reliable source, so here: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24031468/wacom-wizards-of-the-coast-mtg-artists-against-generative-ai
This is seriously confusing where to put Wacom. It's split loyalties at this point.
Other tablet companies? Huion continues to "teach a course on AI" and XP Pen says they don't promote GenAI and got scammed by an artist, but have not used AI art in their promotions since. Reddit, but they link to the evidence in the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/wacom/comments/190lubo/promoting_ai_art_and_forgoing_real_artists_just/
Suites:
ToonBoomHarmony- This is an animation suite, since it has a set of programs. No Anti-AI statement. There are AI tools (not the same as AI) which is heavily being questioned on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ToonBoomHarmony/comments/1j8s9yc/ai_tools_harmony_is_cooked/ with some implications they are stopping listening to customers since they took down their forums and are now switching to the next mode of enshittification Stage 3. People objected heavily, hating on the AI tools, the implementation was horrid, they didn't fix any of the base bugs before launching (which UX people would tell you not to do). When customers flooded in to complain about the AI tools being terrible, they shut down ALL of forums by DELETING THEM (which is enshittification step number 3). While not GenAI, it's implied that might be a next step to please the investors.
They are a hair way from putting in GenAI anyway, despite objections to the AI tools.
Enshittification
1. Good to their end users, but needs to find a way to lock those end users in.
2. Platforms abuse their users to tempt in business customers. Business customers become locked into the platform.
3. Claws back all the value from business customers and end users.
(Oh look, a cloud the company owns. Oh look, we own that cloud. You're OK with that, RRRRIIIGHHHTT). And then it's betraying the customer base for the stockholders and the program becomes hell and then the company shuts down when it loses it's customer face in a huge Pikachu move. I Didn'tKnowYouHadtoPleaseCustomersFirstToMakeMoney So they are at step 3 out of 3. Harmony essentials is USD 29.00 / month, Advanced is USD 73.00 / month, Premium is USD 133.00 / month. Storyboard Pro: USD 75.00 / month Producer "cannot access files unless they are uploaded" How much is your first born worth? Oh and UX people would have effing told you to fix your bugs with the release of new features... say like SIMS4, without adding new ones. SIMS4. I paid over 5,000 dollars for a game that functionally breaks because it's built on a house of cards of not fixing the base code and doing patches instead. (My Dad [a programmer] had an hour lecture on why this was a terrible idea too and told me this was why Microsoft Windows kept getting hacked).
Online Art Programs
Milanote?- Moodboard software. To get full features you have to pay per month (which isn't ideal since the free version is very, very limited) There is no pro or anti-genAI statement I can find. But so far there is no GenAI on the platform. This is a *not sure* category.
Creativit- is offline, free and on Mac only Moodboard software. It's a pretty straight forward program, so no AI. Has snapping features and no frills. Since they are small, it doesn't have AI, but there is no anti-AI statement either.
Art Sharing Clouds, Website Creation, etc (Specialized, not part of a Suite.)
WeTransfer has a murky TOS statement. https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/789157028107010048/we-transfer-went-to-the-genai-dark-side?source=share which I covered here. They swear they won't, but then they didn't specify they wouldn't in the TOS. As I said, you can sue for deceptive practices, but doesn't mean you will win.
Strong positions against AI
Social Media
Pillowfort- This is a social media website. Somewhere between Tumblr and Deviant Art. They banned all AI images. They don't have a social media algorithm. (So you won't be on top of each other. You have to earn your own followers.)
Item 13 of the Banned images section of their terms of service: https://www.pillowfort.social/termsofservice
A bit of a jab to put the item between "No prohibited images of minors" and "revenge porn". (basically lack of consent)
Suggested by lindwurmkai
I read the other TOS too, and it seems pretty fair and in plain language.
Thunderbirdmail (not released yet)
At DarkHorse IT, we love seeing tech that aligns with our values—privacy, transparency, and putting the user first. That’s why we’ve always
Released to be competition to Google mail without the privacy glitches of Gmail and have NO AI. It's open source, yet private, and has a lot of the features of Gmail, no equivalent of Google Docs and no equivalent to online spreadsheet, but still free. But will have other appendages, like scheduler, etc.
Writing
Offline (mostly)
Scrivener (Creator vowed against adding GenAI during Nanowrimo scandal #2 on Twitter. Request for AI features has been denied.) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
Scrivener works with Mac, Windows and Linux (with some fussing): https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/tutorial-running-scrivener-3-1-5-1-under-linux-w-wine-64bit-with-activation/136046
Also has sharing and comparing versions capability as long as you have a cloud harddisk. (Be sure to check out cloud services that are safe)
There was a question of if they added GenAI, but that proves to be false. Up through November 2025 they have sworn against GenAI. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scrivener-and-ai-why-do-i-see-ai-prompts-in-my-scrivener-projects-on-mac
I have made a Better Script Template for US/CAN/AUS/NZ:
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 3 · Better Screenplay Scrivener Template (US/ CAN/AUS/NZ) · Posted: Saturday, August 9, 2025
Updated: Monday August 11, 2025
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One for the UK: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/791598143262392320/better-uk-screenwriting-scrivener-template?source=share
I have a Better Novel Template as well: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/750865969317052416/better-novel-scrivener-template?source=share
I am in no way affiliated with Scrivener. If you have issues, with the program, please direct it to the forums.
With any of the templates, be sure to read ALL instructions first BEFORE downloading, including the Read Me in order to get it to work. I never write any instructions that are unnecessary.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Office (Word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing, formula, database creator). Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener because of the worse UX.
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener). Scrivener, for the 59 dollars a month has all of the same features of Dabble at Premium, making Dabble in total more than triple the price of Scrivener. You choose.
NovelWriter is an Open source writing program done offline. It has less capabilities than Scrivener or YWriter or Dabble. (Can't make templates, Can't save to cloud to compare) The GUI isn't as slick, but because of that it's super easy to use and lower entry in learning curve. (anonymous suggestion through inbox)
StudioBinder- is a script to video production software. Made an Anti-GenAI statement on their Youtube channel (see below).
This is not an official Anti-AI stance and might be tongue-in-cheek. But does look serious as something they are NOT interested in. Pricing is here: https://app.studiobinder.com/pricing
Phone/Online Writing
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI [Link]. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a German-based company in Berlin.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. (Find on the Android app store) The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ programmer took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Art
Sites
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the creator, is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Artgram is an art posting website with a super strong Anti-AI statement It will delete all Ai art and has detection measures in place. And signatures added to the art so they can form you legal protection and make takedown requests. It is free to use.
Fur Affinity Hard ban on All AI use, not even backgrounds. Furry Art posting website. BTW, found this and Artgram on this website: https://brushwarriors.com/art-websites-that-ban-ai/ which does not show as any kind of result on Google, because Google is trying to block anti-AI content as of last week from the search results. (About the day after I posted the Grok gives poor people cancer). You can only find it using a searxng search.
Handmade vowed against AI (Selling any artwork with AI, and also drop shipping, etc) and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
Discover a world of creativity and craftsmanship through Handmade, an innovative platform connecting passionate artisans with discerning buy
Art Programs (Raster, and Vector)+ Suites
Clip Studio Paint is a mostly raster, somewhat Vector program that does comics, illustration and animation. They added genAI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. It can do 2D animation, and generally is a replacement for Corel Painter and can do manga/comics, etc. I'd still recommend paying for the offline version rather than monthly subscription just in case they change their minds back, at least you'll still have the program AI free without worry about them stealing directly as you're drawing. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean [Explanation].
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
OpenToonz is an anti-AI open source animation program. It's almost identical to Tahoma 2D, but has less responsive forums (I tried both) and on a Mac, you can't customize which drive it saves to. Tahoma's forums responded within hours, Opentoonz, I gave a week and got no response. Tahoma, in these regards is ahead. Tahoma has their own forum, v. OpenToonz which is on github, so your response gets lost. (If anyone wants to fix it). (Suggested add by anonymous via inbox, opinions my own.)
Krita is a raster-only open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
As gathered by erkhyan: As of 15 April 2026, discussing or distributing genAI plugins and related tools isn’t allowed on the Krita forums anymore.
Rebelle- Honestly tipping towards Neutral with their Anti-AI statement found here: https://www.escapemotions.com/blog/escape-motions-stands-by-artists but just enough to make them anti. I'd keep an eye on them. Here are some of the neutral statements I'd red flag: "Rebelle's NanoPixel export, for example, allows you to scale your images up to 16x for larger export files, which would not be possible without machine-learning technology. Many artists agree that AI art is a powerful tool but believe it shouldn't be celebrated in the same way as human-created art." "We believe images created with AI can serve for inspiration but to just put a whole painting together through AI is not in alignment with our vision."
They are on Cara, though and their protections against scraping and attempts to prove copyright for their artists is heartening. Still, GenAi is terrible for the planet and doesn't serve as great inspiration.
Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
StudioBinder- is a script to video production software. But I put them also down here because it can also do Moodboards. Made an Anti-GenAI statement on their Youtube channel:
This is not an official Anti-AI stance and might be tongue-in-cheek. But does look serious as something they are NOT interested in. Pricing is here: https://app.studiobinder.com/pricing
GIMP- Open source 2D Image editing software. Works natively on Linux, can kinda port to Mac, and kinda works on Windows. It has less features than Krita and has generally fallen out of favor with the public for not being able to keep up as well. The UX isn't bad, but use Krita instead. You'll be happier. Krita is Mac and Windows stable and works on Linux. There isn't any extra fancy things you need to do with Krita to DL it and Krita is fairly intuitive if you know Photoshop.
Moho- is a 2D animation software. Anti AI Stance is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMFeLjLWFd4 . This was originally made by Mike Clifton at Lost Marble and then the name changed to Anime Studio under Smith Micro. Then it was changed back to Moho and then sold back to Lost Marble, LLC, who now has taken a strong stance against AI. There is a Pro version and a Debut version. The pro version is 399.99 USD (as of 2025) Debut is 59.99. There is a student discount too.
Online Art Programs
ProCreate: Anti AI Stance as noted by mortavaine (in comments). It's an art Studio and can be used on an iPhone. 12.99 (currently) for the Art Studio one, time dealie, not reoccurring. 19.99 (currently) for the animation software. Based in Australia.
3D Modeling
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation. After Version 7-8 the UX vastly improved and a ton of features were added.
Art Sharing Clouds, Website Creation, etc (Specialized, not part of a Suite.)
Swiss Transfer: The Swiss government is going to put strict restrictions on AI and have pretty strict privacy laws. So they can't steal your content.
It has a better deal than WeTransfer did after the buyout.
In the fallout from WeTransfer there is also this list (but I haven't vetted it).
We compared 8 WeTransfer competitors based on functionality, use cases, user reviews, and of course, price. Which one is best for your needs
Because you need to send files to clients without breaking NDAs.
Scribus is a replacement for InDesign and can layout magazines. It doesn't use GenAI, BUT be careful since there is a AI gen named after the program. (Because of course they would.) The learning curve is hard and it's not as advanced as Adobe for things, but it can layout magazines decently. So click the link instead.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. Their CEO came hard against GenAI: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=205673 when it was brought up in the forums, as a request to add, there was a hard no from the CEO. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. Black Magic is an Aussie company, but the program's core was DaVinici Systems, a US company (Florida), where the program originated. DaVinci Systems was bought by Black Magic. Black Magic has offices in US (Bay area/Los Angeles), UK (Manchester), Netherlands (Amsterdam), Australia (Melbourne), Singapore, China (Beijing), Japan (Tokyo, Osaka), Korea (Seoul). Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts. primary-blog-nothing-here asserted that they took data in order to create AI, but this turned out to be not a true claim. AI Tools are not the same as Gen AI. All of the tools claimed on Davinici Resolve 20 are AI tools that existed before GenAI existed. (Mostly about precutting up the timeline based on different shots). If you object to AI tools, stop using Gaussian Blur. Really they put AI in front to make it seem fancier. It's only a little more complex than the smart selection tool. They won't take your data. Cloud won't be used to train AI which they added after the whole Dropbox debacle. https://nofilmschool.com/blackmagic-ai-training-stance Note that AI tools is not the same as GenAI.
ANTI-AI Colleges and and Universities
But you need a professional website...
Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/
Use cloudflare:
Use Nightshade:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
which will poison the algorithm and collapse the algorithm faster. I've seen Youtubers who are popular use it on their images they post to videos, and it made the AI bros irate. Some tried SOOO hard to argue how hopeless it was and how programmers would break the consent of artists. (Yeah, and they might wonder why they are single).
There are claims Nightshade, etc doesn't work, but the evidence it does is in this video.
I can go over the programming reasons it does as well. If it doesn't why are so many AI bros so upset every time someone uses it?
Use Glaze:
If you can't use Nightshade, use Glaze. You can't use Nightshade and Glaze at the same time, but some OS's and machines can't use Nightshade, so the secondary option is to use Glaze. This will blur your image enough in a particular way to make AI unable to read it.
Push companies towards anti-AI
Protest and Petition
Several sites gave in at least halfway or partially when people protested openly to the application. Crowd beats company every time. (Unless there are shareholders, in which case the next tip will help)
Don't buy monthly subscriptions when possible
This tip was on several Youtube videos (don't remember the creators' name, sorry, but I know one was a guy a long time ago). Newly made features every time you want to buy helps motivate the company to update, but also gives leverage to you, the consumer to actively protest the application and write a (Audrina) letter to the company.
Protest Monthly subscriptions. There was a really good video on the enshittification of Adobe, and it started around then, because that's when they became a Stock power. Don't give Stock Power to companies.
Look for Open Source Projects
They aren't rich enough to run servers, so won't add AI.
Convince Employers/Institutions that AI is not copyright protected and bad for branding.
Our biggest obstacle is here. As long as institutions get kickbacks from Adobe, etc and get donated funds, they are more than likely to use it as primary teaching material, which then undercuts their policies about no plagiarism. Point out that free programs are good or sometimes better than the paid ones AND it doesn't undercut their own message and they might convert.
Take Away
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scrapi
And why not help that along?
I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.
BTW, the information about poor communities having cancer from GenAI servers I got from Reese Waters who pointed out it's usually poor Black elderly communities. But especially Grok. Timestamp is 16:28.
I've hit my link and character limit. TT I can't make further changes to the post. I tried to add Paralives, Brave, Ecosia and Vivaldi to the post plus the Blue Sky update and it gives me an error. It won't let me purely add links as text either.
So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
Facebook
Instagram
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok gives people cancer)
Threads
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Duolingo
Google Docs
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Youtube (taking advantage of people who are hearing impaired. ==;;)
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Canva Takes and feeds their machine.
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine.
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Neutral ground:
Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots).
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
Strong positions against AI:
Scrivener (Creator vowed against AI) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Word. Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener) for the same features of Premium. You choose.
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener which is saying something.
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a British-based company.
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the Creator,is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Clip Studio Paint added AI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. US company. Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts.
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
Krita open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ person took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
Affinity (Designer, etc) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos. The UX is messy, I dislike the program and regret paying for it. Inkscape and Krita are better UX and do the same thing. The forums aren't as friendly since there has been an onslaught of people seeing it's supposed to be a replacement for Photoshop and Illustrator, but the programmers aren't present. The people on the forums are often on edge about this assertion. And the capabilities of the program don't outshine basically Krita or Inkscape capabilities (both free). What is usually intuitive is not. UK company. If you're going to pay for a program, go for Clip Studio Paint which rivals Corel Painter.
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation.
Handmade vowed against AI and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
Discover a world of creativity and craftsmanship through Handmade, an innovative platform connecting passionate artisans with discerning buy
Proton (to replace Google Suite) as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) Vowed against AI. They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN.
But you need a pro website...
Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/
Use cloudflare:
Use Nightshade:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
which will poison the algorithm
Use Glaze:
Take Away:
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scrapi
And why not help that along?
I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.
The new(ish) kinda non-Yellow Peril tactic (kinda) of Tech Oligarchs on AI
Because they are losing the rhetoric war, the next thing they are floating out is:
AI is the next industrial revolution
which is why we have to be racist assholes to Asians, and deregulate AI and build Data centers in the middle of land near generational homes.
Iunno about you, but I remember the last industrial revolution where there were no restrictions and we ended up with child rape and slavery.
Oh, that's an inconvenient truth for you?
The child rape accusations, BTW, I do have references for, but I'm putting together a video on orphanages, and unfortunately it involves a lot of child rape... And no, it was not the times since at the time marriagable age was still deemed to be what? NINETEEN. Wait, the US has it at 16 with parents' consent... hmmm... maybe reconsider that one. But going over this is waaayyyy too long.
I also remember mass slavery of Black people to produce cotton:
And THIS is why the RIGHT is anti-woke, because if you don't remember the last civil rights fights we had over the industrial revolution and how it disenfranchised an entire population:
People now use Luddite as a slur, but they were protecting their jobs and the government said, screw you, we're using child labour.
Unlike Republicans, I remember history and I'm not in the business of wanting to repeat it.
And look, they want to make it so Black people are on the hook again for their AI by building Data centers in poor and Black neighborhoods.
If we don't put guard rails, data centers will be like trash dumps: No one wants them in their neighborhood. But unlike trash dumps (which are already disproportionately put in Black neighborhoods https://racism.org/articles/basic-needs/environmental/12587-environmental-racism-in) AI is completely unnecessary.
AI cat video is not going to help solve world hunger. As I said, AI is an averaging human machine and if you want unique solutions, you need innovation and out of the box thinking and the average of humanity is not that. Besides which, experts know what needs to be done already, but the tech billionaires simply don't want to do it. If they did, why put RFK Jr. at the head of the CDC?
What tech billionaires want is impossible: Not to pay taxes, get double paid by not paying workers fair wages, and a dumb population that follows orders, takes their big money that puts us into debt every time we have a medical exam, yet be a warm body enough to buy their products.
If they could own all the land and make the rest of us homeless yet still have us do all the work, they would do it.
But then we wouldn't have had the Atomic Bomb and beaten Japan...
TT People don't learn history.
I actually took a Modern Japan class which was a history class and one figure I had to memorize for both my High School and for that class was Commodore Perry.
You know the image of oni, some scholars say it's somewhat based on him... and who can blame them based on the history of European and US imperialism?
The big nose and red face oni...
Doesn't this resemble the devil from European lore? Don't you think this might be a tad on purpose?
Commodore Perry came around with big ships and paraded on the shore and forced Japan open.
If the US didn't think they were technologically superior to Japan, they probably wouldn't have done this in the first place. And let's remember how the US got ahead: SLAVES.
Black Slaves.
Let's think for a moment, if you want to argue that the atomic bomb was a good thing then why did Einstein work so hard to try to limit its use?
On 2 August 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter that would result in the Manhattan Project, and one of history's most significant, and dest
He regretted it deeply as did the other scientists on the project. It is said that the rise in cancer rates in Japan, Korea China and the coast of California after the bombs were made is still from that event.
Crazy idea here: Maybe the industrial revolution if it had safeguards and was traded and shared equally without the US and the UK being consummate AHs with doing things like killing people who knew how to make Dhaka cotton, and mass rape and killing to get ahead of the so-called Yellow Peril in the 1840's, maybe just maybe we wouldn't even have gotten to WWII? Maybe the slowing down to actually stare people in the face as actual people, might have stopped, Iunno, the Civil War, WWI, Gustav Freytag from being a grade A genocidal AH, and we wouldn't need a WWII because the likes of Hitler would have had protections for him to not grow up with an abusive father. (And he might have had a better arts program that taught him how to do perspective better).
Maybe what we need to protect is people and this wokism that the right hates so much is the answer to the solutions but they are too busy hating on Black people to actually see that sometimes the right solution is not the white solution. That all races are equally brilliant. And using the myth of the model minority to try to instill yellow peril is built on a huge lie.
And maybe we should stop using racism to instill fear in others and look to other countries to figure out if the way they solved their solutions could also work for us???
What I'm saying is if people worked on solidarity and cooperation over getting rich, this might be a grand idea, bit we could all benefit and create a better future, and I don't think the crazy AI video of your dog dancing the the Macarena is worth ruining and killing other people for. Maybe the Luddites were right to send up warning signals about EFFING CHILD SLAVERY.
Republicans don't remember history or don't want to, so ask them to study up and ask them directly: Do you hate Black people that much that you would kill them with Data centers? Was it worth giving the syphilis and experimenting on them for the sake or progress? Henrietta Lacks should not lack for any amount of money. Why does progress need to be at the cost of other human beings' well-being?
So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Note: The list has gotten so long that I had to reorganize. (Thanks for the suggestions.) I UXed it best I could. I'm updating the best I can as notes come in. As such, I'm adding an update date since Tumblr doesn't update the old blogs with the newer version.
Update: US time. May 19, 2026 5:31pm US time.
This is tentative. But Barnes and Nobles is going to turn to the evil side:
The CEO of Barnes and Noble says he will stock AI written books.
We still have room to protest like hell and raise a firestorm so that they are forced out of it, give him reports of the health problems caused by data centers and so on.
But yes, Barnes and Nobles is about to turn evil if we sit on our hands and do nothing. Time to crack some knuckles and let them know how much you hate this and give them warm stories of Barnes and Nobles mixed with reports of true stories of communities brought to their knees by data centers and health concerns.
Write to the CEO, call and harass them to back off of this idea.
April 16, 2026 There's an update on the Krita section added by reblog by Erkhyan. I give credit.
Previous change:
I changed UBlacklist so there are clearer instructions on how to add to Duckduckgo's search engine. ^^;; Feel a little dumb it took me this long to figure out.
There have been several requests to add programs, but either they aren't well populated, their projects are short, or they have the murkiest anti-AI statement I've ever read.
For example, I was told about this company, here, they were forced into anti-AI, but this seems a bit passive aggressive corporate speak for we hate you.:
Companies building AI tools must be ethically responsible in their products and with their audiences.
AI systems developers need to make a genuine effort to educate their users on how to use their tools responsibly and how to find ways to promote ethical practices.
As AI integrations become more commonplace for creative design tools, we feel strongly that it is imperative for developers to consider the impacts being made to the creative communities at large, and if need be, be willing to take a stand and adapt or forgo unethical AI models.
The industry must monitor the impact of new tools in terms of both positive and negative effects.
We believe that it’s our responsibility to build art tools, which ultimately make us smarter and more skilled - contributing to a happier and better society.
So no talk about environmental impact, passive aggressive around the edges, "AI systems developers need to make a genuine effort to educate their users on how to use their tools responsibly" is really passive aggressive considering it was users trying to get them to change their policy.
And even when they have support for the artist, the statement seems to undercut it...
Artists who have devoted years into developing their skills and individual style made generative AI possible, and they deserve recognition.
I also attempted to contact the company with no response.
So I'm reluctant to add them because it seems like they really, really want to add it, and will backstab the userbase as soon as possible.
Additional Note: GenAI, an algorithm and AI tools aren't the same.
GenAI requires vast servers to constantly run 24-7, kicking up harmful fumes which are killing people, absorbing hospital energy, vast amounts of water, and generally killing the planet using data stolen from real people. This is bad. (links at the bottom)
Algorithms I've gone into detail before what they are and how they work on my post about Why Spell Check is not GenAI. Click the link. Too long for here.
AI tools run on your computer and are programmed using your power, not external servers. It depends on your RAM. It's not taken with stolen data from other users. Things like Gaussian Blur, etc might borderline be considered AI to some people (though not really) and things like smart tools (smart lasso), but this is not equal to GenAI in an ethics violation. So environmental impact depends on where you live, but certainly isn't purposefully giving other people cancer because they want a picture of Miyazaki-style selfie of themselves while totally being ignorant of the meaning of Miyazaki's films making people want to bash them over the head with a clue stick. These tools CAN run on large servers, but most scientists aren't running say, how to find the next prime number on vast huge servers in poor communities. GenAI, which is being used for cancer cure stuff, etc is in poor communities. Chess AI is run locally on your computer, but doesn't have as huge ethics issues. Tools the save time, but don't kill people isn't an ethics problem.
As such this focuses on GenAI, itself and the servers it runs on being an ethical violation on so many fronts.
Pro AI Stance is:
their user's data in and data out.
All companies that are willing to sell their customer's data for AI.
Gross support of GenAI, saying GenAI is the future, screw the poor people, goes here.
GenAI is added to the program at any level belongs here. App or program is a deliberate add.
Neutral Stance is:
For websites only: No data into GenAI or an easy opt out, but doesn't protect against AI content of any kind for websites explicitly. Sliding scale for how much of each. (Why different rules for websites v. programs/apps is about the bots.)
I try to tell you by how much with links.
For program/Apps, where they don't have a clear stance, or it feels like they might want to add it anyway and backstab the userbase. (See Toonboom. They are about to slide to the evil side...)
Also some not sure or no clear Anti-statement goes here.
Freeware and shareware without a clear statement also goes here.
Anti AI Stance is:
No data into AI no GenAI machine.
No GenAI added AND a clear anti-AI statement in their TOS and policies.
No Chatbots, LLMs anywhere in the program. Cannot prompt.
Open source, but do not list any third party plug-ins with genAI/LLMs on the website.
Extra points and higher listings for programs that are well populated, older and have a stable UX.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
Social Media
Facebook
Threads (owned by facebook)
Instagram
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok's servers gives people cancer)
Duolingo Language learning App
Discord went pro-GenAI:
Youtube went pro-genAI. This is different from the algorithm. They are owned by Google. They are using people's handmade subs for hearing impaired for the Large Language Models, which has shaky legal ground. It's currently being sued over. They are also adding to it anything to detect facial scans. Which has shown problems with racism before: (ACLU): https://www.aclu-mn.org/en/news/biased-technology-automated-discrimination-facial-recognition (Facial recognition note by Buds-and-baubles. See reblog.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjnQ-s7LW-g They are also forcing creators to look like they are GenAI, genuine people, so they can pass their GenAI users under the radar. Creators aren't happy. Things like forced GenAI translation and weird "improvements" to art on shorts so that creators are complaining that their genuinely made content looks like it is genAI. This is where we're at. If they can't make creators embrace them, they will make human-created art look like GenAI.
Writing
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Re: Grammar Programs
BTW, I'm firm on the idea that grammar programs are really racist. So asking about grammar programs to replace Grammarly, will always be met with, use your own brain. If you want a long linguistics reasoning for this, or my long rants about Google Docs being too Texas-based on its grammar corrections, I can give it, but you wouldn't give a shit anyway. I know English is a fucked up language—I struggled through learning the illogical of it. I've said as much, but you know what you can do to get around that? Ask another human. Rely on the community around you to teach the rules instead of a machine and you'll maybe make some friends along the way. If you think this is cruel to actually be asked to interact with the writing community, and other humans, I would think more about what stances you are taking that you are that afraid of other humans. You shouldn't be using crutches for life and the best of grammar programs are also wrong. Longer linguistic/programming essay here: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/805143849449275392/why-grammarly-and-other-grammar-ai-is-secretly?source=share
Google Docs/Google- Going full on pro AI including Youtube. They are also suppressing anti-GenAI results on their search engine. (Duckduckgo isn't, BTW because I can see it on SearXNG.)
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Proton as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) is pro AI (as the reblog from McBitchTits pointed out) They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN. They came out with their own AI tool: https://proton.me/blog/lumo-ai But also swears never to use their user's data: "Acknowledging these concerns and recognising that three in five (60%) workers would like to use AI despite four in five (79%) being concerned about the use of their private data for training purposes, Proton Scribe promises never to use data from users’ inboxes. The company backed up its claim by asserting that the standard end-to-end encryption makes this impossible." (https://www.techradar.com/pro/proton-is-launching-an-ai-tool-to-help-you-write-better-emails) I'd feel wary about that, especially if they get close to GenAI collapse. (Also that stat is crazy, either you're for it, or you're against it, if you're for it, you need to be on board with it using your data to feed the machine.). Proton's CEO also supported Trump.
Notion (I feel this was like a troll).
Novlr While they say they have an Anti-AI stance (last post) here: https://www.threads.com/@novlrofficial/post/C_immJrotiC Earlier thoughts on AI here: https://www.novlr.org/the-reading-room/ai-and-you-emerging-technology-and-what-it-means-for-writers/ Unfortunately they are still partnered with ProWritingAid, which is pro GenAI.
So it goes like this, originally Nanowrimo crashed out over GenAI because of ProWritingAid. Then Novlr SWORE they were anti-AI. Then they decided to backstab everyone and INTEGRATE ProWritingAid when got its data from GenAI. Not all grammar programs use AI as I've delineated before, but this one uses stolen data and their TOS is very murky. In case of total ignorance, I pointed this out to Novlr on Blue Sky (because what's the point of lecturing when you don't take action yourself?) They tried to back that it was integration only and would not correct either the claim that theirs was the first program to be made by a writer (As I said, I fact checked this and the creator of Scrivener was also writer first, a programmer second. And then Ywriter was on its heels soon after and blatantly said they were a writer when they created it).
Lifting open projects on grammar isn't that difficult since word processors are one of the first programs to be made. So making a grammar integration isn't that difficult, especially one without GenAI and LLMs attached. But they continue to blatantly support ProWritingAid. This makes them pro-GenAI.
They KNOW that ProWritingAid is pro GenAI and that Nannowrimo crashed out over it, 100% because I told them so. And then they doubled down. I would say this makes them shady at best and pro-GenAI. When they kick out ProWritingAid they can be anti again. In this case they are fat-faced lying their butts off on two counts and continuing to do so even after being notified. If a company lies while doing the thing they swear they aren't doing while making false claims, should you trust them? I say no.
Art
Sites
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine. There is an opt-out, but they made it labo[u]r intensive. You have to check it off EVERY TIME. And you can reduce, not eliminate GenAI in the results. This tips it over into being Pro-GenAI still. (last note modified per Usagi-Zakura's reblog) Find a better site below.
Pinterest went pro-GenAI [link] making the site unusable since it was often used for inspo from the REAL WORLD and REAL images to create weddings, etc. There is a way to "opt-out", but it's overrun with AI images even then.
ArtStation Leaned more pro-AI. Bills itself for "portfolios". Has no restrictions against AI in the TOS, but you can do the Deviant art thing of "check it every time if you don't want it". Urrgghhh No thanks. They also don't protect from AI scrapers, which they selectively could. They do "sternly warn" that AI has no copyright protection, and don't think it's morally wrong to put into portfolios AI art. (Yes, snark) Oh, yes, that'll really help. (Sarcasm).
Instagram As part of Facebook's meta, of course they are pro-AI, there is a way to opt out, if you're willing to give up your left kidney to get it. (i.e. they make it really difficult.)
Art Programs (Raster, and Vector)+ Suites
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law. Adobe wants to claim they don't feed their machine with your art, but that's not in the legal agreements and famously the legal agreements changed. Legal agreements can supersede other claims on the website, though one could theoretically sue for predatory practices, it's a harder case.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Photopea which is an image editing program went pro GenAI according to cat-of-many-faces in comments.
Affinity (Suite program) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos (I haven't checked out their InDesign equivalent). They SOLD to Canva (so much for that promise. This is in the same realm as Novlr. A huge backstab.)
Canva then officially added GenAI to Affinity and took the three programs and combined them into one. Then made it "free"
After version 2, do not download or buy. It's likely to use GenAI and is giving Canva profit. Right now it's borderline because it's a moral panic of if you want to give Canva profit.
My review for Affinity Designer is here: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/776698728716337152/affinity-designer-2weaknesses-and-strengths
Online Art Programs
Canva Takes and feeds their machine. Alternatives are Presentation software. (See LibreOffice) and Moodboard software. Not sure? Milanote doesn't have GenAI (or the search engines are suppressing the results, which I found recently is a thing), but also no anti-AI stance. Creativit on Mac has a Moodboard function without AI (for now) No anti-AI stance, but snap.
Snappa has GenAI
Pixlr (This one hurt me personally)
3D Modeling
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Epic Games: Sketch Fab Caveat:
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Art Sharing Clouds, Website Creation, etc (Specialized, not part of a Suite.)
DropBox went Pro-AI causing massive backlash against the company.
QuarkXPress added GenAI in 2025 [Link]
Figma has GenAI
Pro GenAI Colleges and Universities
Ah, yes, we're at this stage of late stage capitalism. DO NOT submit to these places without a clear contract and writing that you do not consent on every piece of art to feed a GenAI machine. Or simply instruct all people to not submit.
Please, please add to this list. You can send it to me anonymously. I am safe because I'm going to an anti-GenAI college with no plans to try to get a BA or a Masters. I will check your claim. They can be within the US or outside of the US.
Cal Arts is Pro GenAI. Students are protesting, but they are suppressing their free speech. This confirms Walt Disney is also Pro GenAI. It's risky to even apply here. Scraping is next step. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cbpu7IQEts
Otis College of Art and Design is pushing GenAI (according to the comment section of the previous video) and I confirmed it here:
Otis College LibGuides: AI Literacy: Defining AI, GenAI, & LLMs
They couldn't even bother to have pictures of real students at the college?
Neutral ground:
Social Media
Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai They did sell the data to OpenAI, but there is an opt out, and they block GenAI bots. The report about it is here. Shaky ground. Leans more toward Pro-AI. (See comments for correction and added last sentence).
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). They also still allow people to post AI images/text on the website. There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots). Theyrrefused the restrictive Mississippi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku3VpRIFEcM
Mastodon *might* have some anti-AI art community servers on it. When I looked there are some servers that are explicitly aggressive about being anti-AI in moderation. It's a bit difficult for those not tech savvy to use. Because of its decentralized nature (more so than Blue Sky) it's easier to filter for anti-AI art. Because it's decentralized, though, the rest of the servers ould have AI art.
Cannot find AI stances for:
Final Draft who refuses to make a stance either way.
Celtx threatened to go proAI/LLM during the screenwriter's strike of all times. I wrote them a really strongly worded letter (without swearing) which basically was a, "Are you serious when you know what this strike is about?" and then they went radio silent. I think they are hoping it blows over so they can be pro again.
By the way, I worked on two (free) templates for Scrivener to replace Final Draft and Celtx somewhat:
UK version: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/791598143262392320/better-uk-screenwriting-scrivener-template?source=share
US/AUS/NZ/CAN: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/791465354153082880/better-screenplay-scrivener-template-north?source=share
Here are two extra language charts I also worked on.
💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 4 · Sorta an easier way to language chart Phonemes within Scrivener? · So I spent 2.5 days in really bad heat TT HTMLing the ch
No one else is making Scrivener templates on this website... so...
PaintTool Sai *only* works on Windows. Located in Japan. Updates are slow. It only does raster (Clip Studio Paint technically does both raster and vector). As it's shareware, it's not reliable to say if the creator is anti or pro. Unlike the defenders say, it's NOT open source, so no, that doesn't guarantee anything at all.
Search Engine Replacement
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
DuckDuckGo (Find in the pulldown menu)- You can turn off the AI results for images and AI. Link shared by selkie-on-land in reblog. It's not perfect, but can be done. Change the default search engine default to: noai.duckduckgo.com (This is better results than web.google.com) DuckDuckgo (from my searxng search engine) also gets consistently non-slanted results for topics like ai, etc. For Firefox go to Search->Search Shortcuts->Add->plug in for the Site Name: No AI DuckDuckGo; URL: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=%s->scroll up and hit "Default search engine" and change it to "No AI DuckDuckGo"
Ublacklist extension: DuckDuckGo is not perfect, so how do you make it perfect so it'll block places like Diffusion AI and the other egregious and gregarious websites? Firefox version: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublacklist/ Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmialoiaghdehhbnbhkkgmjanfhe?hl=en Note that the default setting is for it to work ONLY for Google, but you can expand it to other results.
Options->"Other search engines"->flip the switch on the search engines you want it to apply to.->It'll give you a dialogue box when you first do it, confirm.
There will be some blank results on your page and it might take a little longer to load, but it is better than having a fit every time you see another picture of waifish waifu in non-hanbok. (And yes, I know waifu is a Japanese word, that's the point) or historically inaccurate clothes that make you want to stab someone, preferably the programmer who thought that Victorian clothes all look the same by decade and location. My search results are much, much better.
Remove GenAI from Firefox
Super annoying. Especially with pop ups. 2. The person who had this idea needs to be corrected repeatedly. 3. Poor implementation.
Not going to click the link... even though it gives you visuals. Three hamburger menu->Settings. Uncheck "Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups" This results in annoying popup menus. (The link misses unchecking this)
Under General->Browser Layout->Show sidebar Uncheck AI chatbot in the sidebar.
Then go to about:config, accept the risk, search for "chat" and change the settings for: "browser.ml.chat.menu" to false (click the double sided arrow). If you hate it that much, you can also change the footerbadge, menubadge, shortcuts, shortcutscustom, and sidebar also to false.
Go curse the people who decided to add this and implement it and ask them to permanently remove it.
Writing
Obsidian-It's a writing and organizational tool. Plugins may contain genAI company doesn't vet them according to borealtwilight in comments.
AO3 (Archive of Our Own)- Gets Data scraped. So they made an AI statement, but it's on Neutral ground. They are protecting lightly from scraping: https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/25888 But you still have to do the work yourself to block the bots and put yourself on private. They will allow GenAI words. They've been scraped twice already. https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/1k6a3t6/ao3_has_been_scraped_again_for_genai_purposes/ O.o; I've never seen a site cooperate this much with "researchers" that they are willing to get scraped and not block scraping. They are blocking the specific GenAI bots. Your choice in this case. Leaning more neutral neutral, in this case, given the statement.
If you would like to block scrapers (suggested by Benwvatt, see reblog), then try:
WARNING, though, that it will block text readers, so may block dyslexic, Low vision, blind, etc readers.
It randomly inserts words into the sentence at random intervals when the fic is downloaded.
Art
Sites
Newgrounds: Stronger on the no AI art side, but still allow pieces in specific cases, it's not a total ban. Allowed AI is highlighted in bold to make it easier to skim.:
AI-generated art is not allowed in the Art Portal. This includes using tools such as Midjourney, Dall-E, and CrAIyon, in addition fractal generators and websites like ArtBreeder, where the user selects two images and they are combined into a new image via machine learning.
There are cases where some use of AI is ok, for example if you are primarily showcasing your character art but use an AI-generated background. In these cases, please note any elements where AI was used so that it is clear to users and moderators.
Tracing and coloring over AI-generated art is something best shared on your blog, as it is much like tracing over someone else's art.
Making art from scratch that is inspired by an AI piece is ok. Here are two good examples: Maiden of Flames and Hermin. Both pieces reference the AI art they are based on while being original pieces in their own right.
Bottom line: We want to keep the focus on art made by people and not have the Art Portal flooded with computer-generated art. https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/terms-of-use/art-guidelines
Cara is totally anti-AI in contrast. You would be too if someone profited from your artwork by simply reversing it and changing the color scheme a little.
BTW, It's BS to call Backgrounds not real art. Tips it more towards pro-AI.
Wacom?: This one confuses the hell out of me, but apparently Wacom is running contests, etc with GenAI. Apparently they did this a few times. Proof: https://x.com/meganroseruiz/status/1743759432268607843. Honestly makes me a bit reticent about Yuify... https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/yuify Look, I love Wacom, I really do, and was a loyal customer long before screen tablets were a thing, but this seriously confuses the hell out of me. Why support the technology that will make your tech obsolete? The problem is Wacom has done this repeatedly. For contests, promos, etc, in Japanese and Japanese people have also called them out repeatedly. (They are now owned by a pro-AI company testing out users). I get you want more reliable source, so here: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/9/24031468/wacom-wizards-of-the-coast-mtg-artists-against-generative-ai
This is seriously confusing where to put Wacom. It's split loyalties at this point.
Other tablet companies? Huion continues to "teach a course on AI" and XP Pen says they don't promote GenAI and got scammed by an artist, but have not used AI art in their promotions since. Reddit, but they link to the evidence in the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/wacom/comments/190lubo/promoting_ai_art_and_forgoing_real_artists_just/
Suites:
ToonBoomHarmony- This is an animation suite, since it has a set of programs. No Anti-AI statement. There are AI tools (not the same as AI) which is heavily being questioned on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ToonBoomHarmony/comments/1j8s9yc/ai_tools_harmony_is_cooked/ with some implications they are stopping listening to customers since they took down their forums and are now switching to the next mode of enshittification Stage 3. People objected heavily, hating on the AI tools, the implementation was horrid, they didn't fix any of the base bugs before launching (which UX people would tell you not to do). When customers flooded in to complain about the AI tools being terrible, they shut down ALL of forums by DELETING THEM (which is enshittification step number 3). While not GenAI, it's implied that might be a next step to please the investors.
They are a hair way from putting in GenAI anyway, despite objections to the AI tools.
Enshittification
1. Good to their end users, but needs to find a way to lock those end users in.
2. Platforms abuse their users to tempt in business customers. Business customers become locked into the platform.
3. Claws back all the value from business customers and end users.
(Oh look, a cloud the company owns. Oh look, we own that cloud. You're OK with that, RRRRIIIGHHHTT). And then it's betraying the customer base for the stockholders and the program becomes hell and then the company shuts down when it loses it's customer face in a huge Pikachu move. I Didn'tKnowYouHadtoPleaseCustomersFirstToMakeMoney So they are at step 3 out of 3. Harmony essentials is USD 29.00 / month, Advanced is USD 73.00 / month, Premium is USD 133.00 / month. Storyboard Pro: USD 75.00 / month Producer "cannot access files unless they are uploaded" How much is your first born worth? Oh and UX people would have effing told you to fix your bugs with the release of new features... say like SIMS4, without adding new ones. SIMS4. I paid over 5,000 dollars for a game that functionally breaks because it's built on a house of cards of not fixing the base code and doing patches instead. (My Dad [a programmer] had an hour lecture on why this was a terrible idea too and told me this was why Microsoft Windows kept getting hacked).
Online Art Programs
Milanote?- Moodboard software. To get full features you have to pay per month (which isn't ideal since the free version is very, very limited) There is no pro or anti-genAI statement I can find. But so far there is no GenAI on the platform. This is a *not sure* category.
Creativit- is offline, free and on Mac only Moodboard software. It's a pretty straight forward program, so no AI. Has snapping features and no frills. Since they are small, it doesn't have AI, but there is no anti-AI statement either.
Art Sharing Clouds, Website Creation, etc (Specialized, not part of a Suite.)
WeTransfer has a murky TOS statement. https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/789157028107010048/we-transfer-went-to-the-genai-dark-side?source=share which I covered here. They swear they won't, but then they didn't specify they wouldn't in the TOS. As I said, you can sue for deceptive practices, but doesn't mean you will win.
Strong positions against AI
Social Media
Pillowfort- This is a social media website. Somewhere between Tumblr and Deviant Art. They banned all AI images. They don't have a social media algorithm. (So you won't be on top of each other. You have to earn your own followers.)
Item 13 of the Banned images section of their terms of service: https://www.pillowfort.social/termsofservice
A bit of a jab to put the item between "No prohibited images of minors" and "revenge porn". (basically lack of consent)
Suggested by lindwurmkai
I read the other TOS too, and it seems pretty fair and in plain language.
Thunderbirdmail (not released yet)
At DarkHorse IT, we love seeing tech that aligns with our values—privacy, transparency, and putting the user first. That’s why we’ve always
Released to be competition to Google mail without the privacy glitches of Gmail and have NO AI. It's open source, yet private, and has a lot of the features of Gmail, no equivalent of Google Docs and no equivalent to online spreadsheet, but still free. But will have other appendages, like scheduler, etc.
Writing
Offline (mostly)
Scrivener (Creator vowed against adding GenAI during Nanowrimo scandal #2 on Twitter. Request for AI features has been denied.) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
Scrivener works with Mac, Windows and Linux (with some fussing): https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/tutorial-running-scrivener-3-1-5-1-under-linux-w-wine-64bit-with-activation/136046
Also has sharing and comparing versions capability as long as you have a cloud harddisk. (Be sure to check out cloud services that are safe)
There was a question of if they added GenAI, but that proves to be false. Up through November 2025 they have sworn against GenAI. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/scrivener-and-ai-why-do-i-see-ai-prompts-in-my-scrivener-projects-on-mac
I have made a Better Script Template for US/CAN/AUS/NZ:
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 3 · Better Screenplay Scrivener Template (US/ CAN/AUS/NZ) · Posted: Saturday, August 9, 2025
Updated: Monday August 11, 2025
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One for the UK: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/791598143262392320/better-uk-screenwriting-scrivener-template?source=share
I have a Better Novel Template as well: https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/750865969317052416/better-novel-scrivener-template?source=share
I am in no way affiliated with Scrivener. If you have issues, with the program, please direct it to the forums.
With any of the templates, be sure to read ALL instructions first BEFORE downloading, including the Read Me in order to get it to work. I never write any instructions that are unnecessary.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Office (Word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, drawing, formula, database creator). Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener because of the worse UX.
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener). Scrivener, for the 59 dollars a month has all of the same features of Dabble at Premium, making Dabble in total more than triple the price of Scrivener. You choose.
NovelWriter is an Open source writing program done offline. It has less capabilities than Scrivener or YWriter or Dabble. (Can't make templates, Can't save to cloud to compare) The GUI isn't as slick, but because of that it's super easy to use and lower entry in learning curve. (anonymous suggestion through inbox)
StudioBinder- is a script to video production software. Made an Anti-GenAI statement on their Youtube channel (see below).
This is not an official Anti-AI stance and might be tongue-in-cheek. But does look serious as something they are NOT interested in. Pricing is here: https://app.studiobinder.com/pricing
Phone/Online Writing
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI [Link]. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a German-based company in Berlin.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. (Find on the Android app store) The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ programmer took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Art
Sites
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the creator, is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Artgram is an art posting website with a super strong Anti-AI statement It will delete all Ai art and has detection measures in place. And signatures added to the art so they can form you legal protection and make takedown requests. It is free to use.
Fur Affinity Hard ban on All AI use, not even backgrounds. Furry Art posting website. BTW, found this and Artgram on this website: https://brushwarriors.com/art-websites-that-ban-ai/ which does not show as any kind of result on Google, because Google is trying to block anti-AI content as of last week from the search results. (About the day after I posted the Grok gives poor people cancer). You can only find it using a searxng search.
Handmade vowed against AI (Selling any artwork with AI, and also drop shipping, etc) and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
Discover a world of creativity and craftsmanship through Handmade, an innovative platform connecting passionate artisans with discerning buy
Art Programs (Raster, and Vector)+ Suites
Clip Studio Paint is a mostly raster, somewhat Vector program that does comics, illustration and animation. They added genAI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. It can do 2D animation, and generally is a replacement for Corel Painter and can do manga/comics, etc. I'd still recommend paying for the offline version rather than monthly subscription just in case they change their minds back, at least you'll still have the program AI free without worry about them stealing directly as you're drawing. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean [Explanation].
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
OpenToonz is an anti-AI open source animation program. It's almost identical to Tahoma 2D, but has less responsive forums (I tried both) and on a Mac, you can't customize which drive it saves to. Tahoma's forums responded within hours, Opentoonz, I gave a week and got no response. Tahoma, in these regards is ahead. Tahoma has their own forum, v. OpenToonz which is on github, so your response gets lost. (If anyone wants to fix it). (Suggested add by anonymous via inbox, opinions my own.)
Krita is a raster-only open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
As gathered by erkhyan: As of 15 April 2026, discussing or distributing genAI plugins and related tools isn’t allowed on the Krita forums anymore.
Rebelle- Honestly tipping towards Neutral with their Anti-AI statement found here: https://www.escapemotions.com/blog/escape-motions-stands-by-artists but just enough to make them anti. I'd keep an eye on them. Here are some of the neutral statements I'd red flag: "Rebelle's NanoPixel export, for example, allows you to scale your images up to 16x for larger export files, which would not be possible without machine-learning technology. Many artists agree that AI art is a powerful tool but believe it shouldn't be celebrated in the same way as human-created art." "We believe images created with AI can serve for inspiration but to just put a whole painting together through AI is not in alignment with our vision."
They are on Cara, though and their protections against scraping and attempts to prove copyright for their artists is heartening. Still, GenAi is terrible for the planet and doesn't serve as great inspiration.
Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
StudioBinder- is a script to video production software. But I put them also down here because it can also do Moodboards. Made an Anti-GenAI statement on their Youtube channel:
This is not an official Anti-AI stance and might be tongue-in-cheek. But does look serious as something they are NOT interested in. Pricing is here: https://app.studiobinder.com/pricing
GIMP- Open source 2D Image editing software. Works natively on Linux, can kinda port to Mac, and kinda works on Windows. It has less features than Krita and has generally fallen out of favor with the public for not being able to keep up as well. The UX isn't bad, but use Krita instead. You'll be happier. Krita is Mac and Windows stable and works on Linux. There isn't any extra fancy things you need to do with Krita to DL it and Krita is fairly intuitive if you know Photoshop.
Moho- is a 2D animation software. Anti AI Stance is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMFeLjLWFd4 . This was originally made by Mike Clifton at Lost Marble and then the name changed to Anime Studio under Smith Micro. Then it was changed back to Moho and then sold back to Lost Marble, LLC, who now has taken a strong stance against AI. There is a Pro version and a Debut version. The pro version is 399.99 USD (as of 2025) Debut is 59.99. There is a student discount too.
Online Art Programs
ProCreate: Anti AI Stance as noted by mortavaine (in comments). It's an art Studio and can be used on an iPhone. 12.99 (currently) for the Art Studio one, time dealie, not reoccurring. 19.99 (currently) for the animation software. Based in Australia.
3D Modeling
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation. After Version 7-8 the UX vastly improved and a ton of features were added.
Art Sharing Clouds, Website Creation, etc (Specialized, not part of a Suite.)
Swiss Transfer: The Swiss government is going to put strict restrictions on AI and have pretty strict privacy laws. So they can't steal your content.
It has a better deal than WeTransfer did after the buyout.
In the fallout from WeTransfer there is also this list (but I haven't vetted it).
We compared 8 WeTransfer competitors based on functionality, use cases, user reviews, and of course, price. Which one is best for your needs
Because you need to send files to clients without breaking NDAs.
Scribus is a replacement for InDesign and can layout magazines. It doesn't use GenAI, BUT be careful since there is a AI gen named after the program. (Because of course they would.) The learning curve is hard and it's not as advanced as Adobe for things, but it can layout magazines decently. So click the link instead.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. Their CEO came hard against GenAI: https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=205673 when it was brought up in the forums, as a request to add, there was a hard no from the CEO. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. Black Magic is an Aussie company, but the program's core was DaVinici Systems, a US company (Florida), where the program originated. DaVinci Systems was bought by Black Magic. Black Magic has offices in US (Bay area/Los Angeles), UK (Manchester), Netherlands (Amsterdam), Australia (Melbourne), Singapore, China (Beijing), Japan (Tokyo, Osaka), Korea (Seoul). Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts. primary-blog-nothing-here asserted that they took data in order to create AI, but this turned out to be not a true claim. AI Tools are not the same as Gen AI. All of the tools claimed on Davinici Resolve 20 are AI tools that existed before GenAI existed. (Mostly about precutting up the timeline based on different shots). If you object to AI tools, stop using Gaussian Blur. Really they put AI in front to make it seem fancier. It's only a little more complex than the smart selection tool. They won't take your data. Cloud won't be used to train AI which they added after the whole Dropbox debacle. https://nofilmschool.com/blackmagic-ai-training-stance Note that AI tools is not the same as GenAI.
ANTI-AI Colleges and and Universities
But you need a professional website...
Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/
Use cloudflare:
Use Nightshade:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
which will poison the algorithm and collapse the algorithm faster. I've seen Youtubers who are popular use it on their images they post to videos, and it made the AI bros irate. Some tried SOOO hard to argue how hopeless it was and how programmers would break the consent of artists. (Yeah, and they might wonder why they are single).
There are claims Nightshade, etc doesn't work, but the evidence it does is in this video.
I can go over the programming reasons it does as well. If it doesn't why are so many AI bros so upset every time someone uses it?
Use Glaze:
If you can't use Nightshade, use Glaze. You can't use Nightshade and Glaze at the same time, but some OS's and machines can't use Nightshade, so the secondary option is to use Glaze. This will blur your image enough in a particular way to make AI unable to read it.
Push companies towards anti-AI
Protest and Petition
Several sites gave in at least halfway or partially when people protested openly to the application. Crowd beats company every time. (Unless there are shareholders, in which case the next tip will help)
Don't buy monthly subscriptions when possible
This tip was on several Youtube videos (don't remember the creators' name, sorry, but I know one was a guy a long time ago). Newly made features every time you want to buy helps motivate the company to update, but also gives leverage to you, the consumer to actively protest the application and write a (Audrina) letter to the company.
Protest Monthly subscriptions. There was a really good video on the enshittification of Adobe, and it started around then, because that's when they became a Stock power. Don't give Stock Power to companies.
Look for Open Source Projects
They aren't rich enough to run servers, so won't add AI.
Convince Employers/Institutions that AI is not copyright protected and bad for branding.
Our biggest obstacle is here. As long as institutions get kickbacks from Adobe, etc and get donated funds, they are more than likely to use it as primary teaching material, which then undercuts their policies about no plagiarism. Point out that free programs are good or sometimes better than the paid ones AND it doesn't undercut their own message and they might convert.
Take Away
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scrapi
And why not help that along?
I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.
BTW, the information about poor communities having cancer from GenAI servers I got from Reese Waters who pointed out it's usually poor Black elderly communities. But especially Grok. Timestamp is 16:28.
So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
Facebook
Instagram
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok gives people cancer)
Threads
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Duolingo
Google Docs
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Youtube (taking advantage of people who are hearing impaired. ==;;)
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Canva Takes and feeds their machine.
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine.
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Neutral ground:
Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots).
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
Strong positions against AI:
Scrivener (Creator vowed against AI) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Word. Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener) for the same features of Premium. You choose.
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener which is saying something.
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a British-based company.
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the Creator,is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Clip Studio Paint added AI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. US company. Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts.
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
Krita open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ person took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
Affinity (Designer, etc) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos. The UX is messy, I dislike the program and regret paying for it. Inkscape and Krita are better UX and do the same thing. The forums aren't as friendly since there has been an onslaught of people seeing it's supposed to be a replacement for Photoshop and Illustrator, but the programmers aren't present. The people on the forums are often on edge about this assertion. And the capabilities of the program don't outshine basically Krita or Inkscape capabilities (both free). What is usually intuitive is not. UK company. If you're going to pay for a program, go for Clip Studio Paint which rivals Corel Painter.
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation.
Handmade vowed against AI and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
Discover a world of creativity and craftsmanship through Handmade, an innovative platform connecting passionate artisans with discerning buy
Proton (to replace Google Suite) as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) Vowed against AI. They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN.
But you need a pro website...
Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/
Use cloudflare:
Use Nightshade:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
which will poison the algorithm
Use Glaze:
Take Away:
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scrapi
And why not help that along?
I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.
how do I make an account with ellipsus or any anti ai website if I have an email with the -gmail+com address? Please? I want to switch but don’t know how. I’ve had this email address since 2014. I’m not a tech savvy person at all. If I have to make a new one, how do I do that?
I'm OP, first, remember that the post does not update on reblog, which is tumblr 101.
And before someone wants to do long lectures at me:
https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/807272705145602048/tumblr-does-not-update-the-original-post-after?source=share
And yeah, someone is going to lecture me on why should I keep my notifications on? It's to answer questions like this. And also keep out spam out of the notes and make sure the post is up-to-date so I can update it. Pro-AI people keep trying to post and get away with it. I keep my posts clean, especially on sensitive topics.
Second, Ellipsus is a writing software tool that's a replacement for Google Docs.
Honestly, I'm waiting for Thunderbirdmail server to go online to replace Google mail/suite, since Proton is iffy around the corners (See the latest post) Yes, yes, Firefox has added AI to their browser and you have to do a lot of extra stuff to opt out of it. And yes, yes someone is going to point to Brave, Vivaldi or Ecosia again. I did a review of those already. I'm still testing Vivaldi but unfortunately I'm in finals week, so I can't do final write up yet.
There are shakier replacements for Google Suite in general the piggybacks on LibreOffice, but they have their own issues.
We're still looking for a replacement for Google Mail, ideally, Youtube (no crypto) and InDesign. You can decide after you read about Proton if you want to switch. They still added AI... but the rules about privacy are stricter from their parent country.
So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
Facebook
Instagram
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok gives people cancer)
Threads
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Duolingo
Google Docs
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Youtube (taking advantage of people who are hearing impaired. ==;;)
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Canva Takes and feeds their machine.
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine.
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Neutral ground:
Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots).
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
Strong positions against AI:
Scrivener (Creator vowed against AI) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Word. Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener) for the same features of Premium. You choose.
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener which is saying something.
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a British-based company.
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the Creator,is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Clip Studio Paint added AI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. US company. Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts.
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
Krita open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ person took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
Affinity (Designer, etc) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos. The UX is messy, I dislike the program and regret paying for it. Inkscape and Krita are better UX and do the same thing. The forums aren't as friendly since there has been an onslaught of people seeing it's supposed to be a replacement for Photoshop and Illustrator, but the programmers aren't present. The people on the forums are often on edge about this assertion. And the capabilities of the program don't outshine basically Krita or Inkscape capabilities (both free). What is usually intuitive is not. UK company. If you're going to pay for a program, go for Clip Studio Paint which rivals Corel Painter.
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation.
Handmade vowed against AI and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
Discover a world of creativity and craftsmanship through Handmade, an innovative platform connecting passionate artisans with discerning buy
Proton (to replace Google Suite) as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) Vowed against AI. They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN.
But you need a pro website...
Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/
Use cloudflare:
Use Nightshade:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
which will poison the algorithm
Use Glaze:
Take Away:
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scrapi
And why not help that along?
I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.
For the tags:
#should be mentioned that bsky is kinda leaning toward pro ai as far as I’m aware#what with the time the staff allegedly used ai to code the website and it exploded (hyperbole) for a few hours
Covered already in reblogs. I can't make a move under suspicions.
1 programmer doesn't make all of them.
Two things need to happen for confirmation:
They launch their LLM bot, who is highly unpopular right now and isn't live. (Second most blocked on the website compared to JD Vance, who is first)
Actual confirmation of programming with AI instead of one person running their mouth.
I'm not in the business of getting sued for false accusations.
From what I understand of Blue Sky, a bunch of the programmers were from Twitter and they were planning it before Twitter was bought out by the Skunk. Jack Dorsey was working on Blue Sky early days and is somewhat of a programmer himself. Since several of the core programmers from Twitter were working on the website, knowing some of the history of Blue Sky, I have high doubts that the core programming was done with AI and that was one ignoramous running his mouth to try to get support and failing miserably. He wasn't the core leadership before the last two leaders jumped ship.
Several of the programmers that Twitter fired jumped ship to make improvements to Tumblr since Tumblr poached them. (That's why there were vast improvements to Tumblr in the last few years). That makes it really against my interests to make false accusations. I don't know who worked on what project. =P
But since he ran his mouth Blue Sky has been attacked full on to try to see if there are real programmers running the ship and on payroll.
People like to surrender early. Instead, why not consider protesting sooner and support companies taking the correct direction by broadcasting them loudly? Block the bot, etc.
You have no right to complain if you haven't even tried to protest. Remember, the protesting in the form of an Audrina letter can do a lot. It steered Clip Studio away from AI. Vote to protest as well if you have an election.
BTW, since you are doing things under reblogs, you should make sure you are checking from the latest version.
I'm still testing Vivaldi. I refuse to make a move until things are sure because updating is a pain, especially when people reblog without checking the original post.
So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
Facebook
Instagram
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok gives people cancer)
Threads
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Duolingo
Google Docs
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Youtube (taking advantage of people who are hearing impaired. ==;;)
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Canva Takes and feeds their machine.
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine.
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Neutral ground:
Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots).
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
Strong positions against AI:
Scrivener (Creator vowed against AI) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Word. Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener) for the same features of Premium. You choose.
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener which is saying something.
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a British-based company.
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the Creator,is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Clip Studio Paint added AI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. US company. Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts.
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
Krita open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ person took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
Affinity (Designer, etc) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos. The UX is messy, I dislike the program and regret paying for it. Inkscape and Krita are better UX and do the same thing. The forums aren't as friendly since there has been an onslaught of people seeing it's supposed to be a replacement for Photoshop and Illustrator, but the programmers aren't present. The people on the forums are often on edge about this assertion. And the capabilities of the program don't outshine basically Krita or Inkscape capabilities (both free). What is usually intuitive is not. UK company. If you're going to pay for a program, go for Clip Studio Paint which rivals Corel Painter.
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation.
Handmade vowed against AI and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
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Proton (to replace Google Suite) as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) Vowed against AI. They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN.
But you need a pro website...
Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/
Use cloudflare:
Use Nightshade:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
which will poison the algorithm
Use Glaze:
Take Away:
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scrapi
And why not help that along?
I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.
Reblogging for tags:
#REBLOGGING#unfortunately i dont think any of these things (at least not the writing ones) are mobile friendly#still on the hunt for a gdoc alternative 😔#for later#tips and tricks
Tumblr DOES NOT Update the original post after it's reblogged.
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I haven't used AI for that and I've turned off all of the AI summaries. In case you didn't know you could do that:
https://www.tumblr.com/kimyoonmiauthor/789986515755368448/genai-v-not-genai-round-up
Use uoriginblock and ublacklist. It's magic. And then noai.duckduckgo.com and look, mommy, no AI.
I find AI incredibly annoying. And I should note here that I've done extensive testing of it. As I said, it's a 3 year old without the creativity, who writes with the vocabulary of a lazy college student.
AI is only seductive to those who can't do research and can't test and see its flaws.
