The Pattern That Never Dies: The Anti-AI Mob and Their Tired Playbook

The Pattern That Never Dies: The Anti-AI Mob and Their Tired Playbook

Patterns. I see them everywhere. It’s part of how my brain works — I notice repetition, behavior cycles, and how history loves to run the same broken record. And one pattern that’s become absolutely exhausting? The anti-AI crowd.

Every day, you see the same comments rotting under posts and videos:

• “I hate AI.”
• “AI is slop.”
• “AI is bad.”
• “AI steals.”

It never ends. The language is the same, the tone is the same, and the ignorance is the same. Now, they’re pushing platforms to “filter out” or outright ban AI content. They want a world where they never have to see it — as if exposure to new technology will melt their brain.

They’ve done this before. Every. Single. Time.

1) This Isn’t New — It’s the Same Script

When YouTube embraced gaming content, the purists lost their minds: “Gaming isn’t real content!”

When LGBTQ creators started gaining visibility, the trolls poured in to “protect” the platform from what they didn’t understand.

When YouTube Shorts arrived, suddenly everyone was an expert on “real” creativity and declared Shorts were “ruining YouTube.”

Now it’s AI. And guess what? Same people. Same energy. Same predictable, performative outrage.

2) It’s Never Been About Morals — It’s About Control

Let’s call it what it is: insecurity and loss of control.

AI puts creative power in more hands than ever before. You don’t need a Hollywood budget, a studio, or ten years of software training to make something impressive. That terrifies people who used to gatekeep those tools.

So, they rebrand their fear as “ethics.” They cry “AI steals” because they can’t handle losing monopoly. They yell “AI is soulless” because they can’t replicate the emotion of seeing regular people create better work in minutes. They claim it’s about “protecting art,” but it’s never been about protecting artists — just their own relevance.

3) Platforms Are Feeding the Beast

Here’s the part that really grinds my gears: platforms see this toxicity and do nothing. Worse — they reward it.

• Hate comments count as engagement.
• Arguments boost algorithmic ranking.
• Outrage keeps people scrolling — so it gets amplified.

They’ll talk about “community safety” in PR statements, but behind the scenes, every angry comment is a free hit of data dopamine. The algorithm doesn’t care if it’s love or hate — it just wants you to stay mad and stay online.

4) The Real Problem — And It’s Not AI

People can dislike whatever they want. Not everything has to be for everyone. But when disliking something turns into organized harassment, censorship, or moral crusades, that’s where the line gets crossed.

When people start demanding “AI filters” or “AI bans,” what they’re really saying is:

“I don’t want other people to create things I don’t like.”

That’s not a preference. That’s authoritarianism disguised as taste.

We saw it when people wanted to suppress gaming creators. We saw it when they targeted LGBTQ content. We saw it when they fought the rise of Shorts. Now, it’s AI’s turn to take the punches — until the next creative shift comes along and they find a new target.

5) My Stance

I’m done pretending these people are just “expressing opinions.” They’re not critics. They’re saboteurs. They don’t want a better internet — they want to control it.

Meanwhile, creators — the ones actually building, experimenting, and evolving — are getting drowned out by a mob of bitter traditionalists who refuse to adapt. The irony? They’re using the same platforms and algorithms powered by the very AI they claim to hate.

6) What Needs to Happen

At some point, platforms need to grow a spine. Stop letting malicious outrage masquerade as “engagement.” Stop giving equal weight to bad-faith actors who clearly just want to tear down innovation. We should be shunning these people — not spotlighting them for clicks.

And as creators? We keep moving. We create anyway. We innovate anyway. We stop apologizing for using tools that make us better, faster, more imaginative.

Every time creativity evolves, the same kind of people try to stop it. And every time, they lose.

TL;DR

AI isn’t the problem — people clinging to control are. They’ve been fighting every new creative wave since the dawn of online media, and this is just their latest tantrum. Let them rage. Let them block. Let them scream “slop.” We’ll still be here — creating while they complain.