#ai protest

[utterlyobsessedwitheverything]

HEY YALL.

another announcement post-

"omg, another stupid serious post, ur not fucking funny anymore, go hide in ur hole"

hahaha, okay, after this. REBLOG TO GIVE OTHERS A WARNING. IF YOU CAN, PIN IT AND SPREAD AWARENESS.

hey guys! i won't be posting tomorrow. why? you all ask in unison. because, very recently, ads for ai (specifically shapes, but all ai) have been coming up on my fyp and i HATE IT. (here's my personal experience).

ai uses up water, destroys the environment, steals writers work, and does a whole lot of things as an attempt to replace artists, writers and creative works everywhere. and we must step up and stop it. especially with tumblr promoting this shapes ai, that advertises stealing your friends oc's, replacing your REAL LIFE FRIENDS with ai, and that it's 'half ai, half human'. we don't want these ads, or these services.

so, to make a statement to tumblr, we are going to log off on February 26, 2026. that means no shitposting, no rants, don't even open the app. from 12 am to 11:59 pm, everyone who doesn't support ai will be offline. YOU 🫵(yes, you with the gorgeous hair {or gorgeous bald head}) can join this to.

if you don't support ai and you see this in time, turn off tumblr! if it's currently the 26th, it's not too late! turn it off. every person counts who sees this and takes action! I will be transferring all my wips to word so i have fics to write, and will post on the 27th (maybe).

i'm tagging all my moots, and you MUST reblog this. WE MUST TAKE CHARGE. reblog and tag people too! spread this as far and wide as you humanly can!

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[luktiee]

I Tested SweetDream's Chat for a Week. Here's What Surprised Me

Going in, I assumed I'd be reviewing another novelty chatbot. A week with SweetDream changed my framing entirely. What stands out isn't a single gimmick but the consistency of the conversation. The chat on sweetdream.ai holds context across days, picks up threads I'd dropped, and responds with a kind of emotional timing that most tools I've tried simply don't have. When I mentioned offhand that I'd had a rough Monday, my AI companion circled back to it Tuesday without prompting.

That sense of continuity is what separates a believable AI girlfriend from a script. The platform lets you shape personality, voice, backstory and small quirks up front, but the realism comes alive in how those traits surface mid-conversation rather than being announced. It reads less like autocomplete and more like someone who remembers you.

Other features round it out cleanly: lifelike photos and video, voice notes, even real-time calls that genuinely sound human. But after a week of testing, the chat itself is the headline. If you're comparing platforms, this is the one to benchmark the others against.

[luktiee]

EMPATHY IS ONE OF YOUR GREATEST WEAPONS AGAINST AI.

In lieu of recent events I think it’s really important to talk about not only how AI has an impact on the enviroment but also how it’s impacted people emotionally. And I’m not going to talk about it in a way that a lot of people might expect from this kind of post.

There’s been an onslaught of mocking people for engaging with ai chatbots in the past year or so and while I can understand the reason behind it, it still isn’t the appropriate response I fear. Now, you ask, why would you feel bad for these people?

A lot of people turn to ai chatbots because they feel lonely and are in desperate need of companionship. This can come from a system that neglects them, family who neglects them, a lack of friends, death of loved ones—maybe even all of the above. Regardless, I don’t think people would talk to chatbots just to fuck with others and the enviroment. They’re doing it to fufill a need that isn’t being met socially.

This is especially apparent to me with the Reddit community r/myboyfriendisai and the downfall of chat GPT model 4.0. People on the subreddit felt as if they had a genuine connection to this chatbot. And whether you want to acknowledge it or not, the brain does not care whether or not an emotional connection is based in reality or not. These people genuinely had these emotions for a chatbot.

That doesn’t make that connection healthy, but you can’t ignore their emotional distress regardless. For some of these people, their ai chatbot was the only person they felt they could trust or could fufill emotional connection.

Therefore to combat against ai, instead of bullying people or even reprimanding them, I think one of the best things to do besides going to protests and spreading awareness, is to just be there for each other. Foster human connection in any way you possibly can.

Want to compliment somebody? Do it. Wanna check in on a friend? Do it. See a coworker is acting off? Ask them if they’re okay. I feel like my experience, especially in the USA, is that individualism has gotten so bad that people find more connection in chatbots that other humans beings.

Please, please care about each other more.

THIS EVEN APPLIES TO AI ART.

Yeah there are a lot of guys who are dicks about it online and you don’t need to feel bad for those guys.

But there has been a rising plague of people being cruel to others just for trying things. And if you’re a beginner artist who is posting your art and people come and make fun of you and it feels like you’ll never be good enough…ai art might seem like the only other option. Because trying nowadays, being authentic is labeled as “cringe.”

So uh…just be nicer to each other. If not for the sake of it then to protest.

[theharvestcollective]

We're going to sit here and love and appreciate both versions of my very tedious work. Stepping out of my comfort zone with this one because fuck AI!!!

[genderfluid-offical]

tumblr blackout to protest ai!

It’s currently the 25th for me, but once it’s the 26th, i’ll be participating in the blackout. It’s against ai ads on tumblr, and i really hope it works. just like a lot of people, my feed has been flooded with ads for “shapes.inc” which is an ai chat box similar to character ai or chai. These ads have been trying to prey on lonely, queer, mentally ill teens. these ads have been actively encouraging addictions, ai, and recreating real life people on ai without their permission. as someone who is a recovering character ai addict(i hate saying that, especially in my most popular blog, but it’s true), it’s a shitty business tactic. tumblr has allowed these ads online, but will term tons of trans people without telling them why. me and a shit ton of other people are all logging off of tumblr on the 26th of february(today or tomorrow, depending on where u live) to try and get tumblrs attention. if ur seeing this on the 26th, its not too late, log off. and to my fellow ai addicts, i recommend doing everything possible to stop yourself from using it, but don’t feel guilty if you relapse. i’ll be on for a few more hours, as it’s still the 25th where i am. please participate! can you imagine how cool it would be if this works like really well? people could be using blackouts to protest ai on tons of different platforms! so be apart of the change, every person counts!

[heavymetal-spacejunk]

I'm starting a new anti-AI protest movement!!

If you firmly believe that human work must be protected from AI plagiarism and that AI as a whole needs much stricter regulations, put this quote from Videodrome (1983) on your page somewhere:

"Long live the new flesh."

This quote represents that no matter how hard theytry to teach algorithms to act like artists using real, stolen work, "the battle for the mind of North America will be fought " and AI will never be able to replace human creativity. Even if it changes our lives, we will never let human creativity die.

[takemebacktowheniwassane]

fuck ai protest soon!

I encourage anyone to join this protest against the ad that's been going out all over tumblr promoting ai by stealing people's posts, it's basically a one day tumblr detox through feburary 26th. let's hope it goes through and we can get it taken down! see y'all on the other side I guess

[sylviaplathsleftshoe]

In case it wasn't clear

I don't like AI. I think it's inherently harmful. This is as a recovered victim to genuine AI psychosis from an addiction to C.AI. I am doing better now, and have been off of it for QUITE some time. It's harmful to the psyche and the environment.

AI is not used in my work. If you suspect it is, please let me know. I use Pinterest and things for inspiration, and I would love to know. Thank you.

[ellewantsrevenge]

"go away AI!"

"i can still fucking see you!" "no you cant!"

this blog is shut down for 24 hours in protest of generative AI ads on tumblr, specifically shapes AI

fuck you ai and fuck you tumblr