I wanted to verify this. It was real but has been since removed and judging from the missing comments by the moderators nonetheless, so that’s a W. Then I looked through this community and here are some neat experiences I had:

• One post’s subject was a goober on social media saying “cannibalism is more justified than ai art”. I looked through all the comments - none of them even entertained the possibility of this being a joke.

• In fact it is very often that they just post some stupid anti-ai screenshot where the original post had like two impressions and title it the ai equivalent of ‘they are coming for our guns!’

• I sorted by Top/Year. First post was a random drawing someone made with their hand and said “i’m not good at prompting so I drew this with my hand”. My flabers have been gasted.

• It’s pretty weird because it’s like looking in a mirror in a way: their arguments are exactly the same as I thought they were* - and the way they are posting about us is sadly pretty similar to the way we are posting about them. This post included.

*And yeah, I think those arguments are terrible, but for some reason they don’t and that weirds me out how when presented with the same arguments people can just go in completely different directions.

So this was my shallow dive into a community that shall not be named on a platform that shall not be named. Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.