I Am an AI Hater  ## Metadata - Author: [[Anthony Moser]] - Full Title: I Am an AI Hater - Category: #articles - Document Note: --- tags: - #ai - #ethics - #openSource Author: Anthony Moser Source: Article Reference: https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html date created: 2025-09-08 00:00 --- # Title: I Am An AI Hater — Rude Technology Deserves a Rude Response ## Table of Contents: - [📝 Summary](#-summary) - [📖 Main Content](#-main-content) - [🗒️ Notes](#️-notes) - [📖 References](#-references) - [🗣️ Paraphrase](#️-paraphrase) - [📰 Newsletter](#-newsletter) - [✅ Action Items](#-action-items) - [🧪 Hypotheses](#-hypotheses) - [📊 Methodology](#-methodology) - [❓ Questions](#-questions) - [🔮 Future Research](#-future-research) - [💡 Implications](#-implications) - [🧠 Learning Styles Assessment](#-learning-styles-assessment) - [📊 Accessibility Assessment](#-accessibility-assessment) - [🌍 DEIB Assessment](#-deib-assessment) - [✅ Logical validity](#-logical-validity) - [🔍 DARVO Analysis](#-darvo-analysis) - [🔍 SEO Evaluation](#-seo-evaluation) - [🎯 Conclusion](#-conclusion) ### References: - Hayao Miyazaki interview quote referenced: “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” - Sam Altman Dyson Sphere claim referenced. - Article link: https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html ## 📝 Summary: Anthony Moser’s polemic rejects both “polite” AI discourse and incrementalist criticisms. He frames himself not merely as a critic but as a “hater,” arguing that AI is “a rude technology” deserving a rude response. He asserts that: - Mainstream defenses of AI rely on deference to authority and inevitability narratives. - Harms are already well-documented: environmental costs, bias, labor exploitation, surveillance, de-skilling, mediocrity, and political authoritarianism. - The core problem is not failed outcomes but the goals: to create a “perfect slave machine,” to commodify art and life, and to encourage cognitive and social atrophy. - Even limited or ironic use seeks “permission” and normalizes harm. - The antidote is a celebration of human faculties—feeling, caring, embodied living, and art—culminating in an explicit call to “break” the machine. Key tones: uncompromising, morally charged, satirical, confrontational, and humanist. ## 📖 Main Content: Moser opens by rejecting obligatory hedges around AI criticism. He contrasts social pressure to assume AI’s utility with his self-described integrity as a “hater,” willing to be rude in the face of elite consensus. He acknowledges that others have cataloged AI’s harms extensively—environmental damage, bias and racist outputs, consent and copyright violations, labor exploitation, de-skilling, surveillance, disinformation—arguing that the comprehensive case is already made. His contribution is not more evidence but a moral and existential indictment. He juxtaposes Miyazaki’s reverence for life with Sam Altman’s techno-futurist ambition (e.g., Dyson Sphere-scale data centers), declaring Miyazaki right and Altman wrong. The AI makers’ “damnation,” he contends, lies in their aims: replacing human art-making, enslaving new forms of life, and gratifying power through synthetic minds. He extends the critique to users who accept “a little, as a treat”—even jokingly—framing it as a desire for permission that perpetuates harm and mediocrity. Finally, he asserts that AI cannot “hate” because it cannot feel or care, and he celebrates human capacities as the basis for resistance. ### 🗒️ Notes - Opening stance and social context - Rejects “polite” disclaimers (“of course I’m not against it entirely…”) as coerced deference. - Frames haterdom as integrity—courage to resist elite narratives. - Catalog of established harms - Environment: energy/data-center externalities. - Bias and racism: reproduction of systemic inequities. - Cognitive harms and suicides: psychosocial risks; degradation of attention and agency. - Consent/copyright: data appropriation without permission. - Empire and surveillance: consolidation of power; harassment; fraud/disinformation. - Labor: exploitation; justification for layoffs; de-skilling. - Epistemic limits: probability/association ≠ reasoning; mediocrity and conservatism of outputs. - Political critique: “fascist technology” defined by political, not merely technical, attributes. - Moral thesis: the goals damn the project - “Perfect slave machine”; end of art as human practice. - Enslavement of “new life” (provocative metaphor). - Human cost and normalization - Users become isolated, passive, and dependent—“womb of the algorithm.” - “A little as a treat” normalizes structural harms. - Exemplars and contrasts - Miyazaki: life-affirming art; meaning through the ordinary-fantastic blend. - Sam Altman: techno-utopian spectacle; “lies for money.” - Call to action and humanism - “The machine is disgusting and we should break it.” - Celebrate irreducibly human capacities: reading, understanding, reasoning, caring, loving, embodied art. - AI cannot be a “hater” because it lacks feeling/knowledge/care. ## 📖 References: - Primary: Anthony Moser, “I Am An AI Hater” - Referenced cultural figures: Hayao Miyazaki (anti-AI animation sentiment); Sam Altman (Dyson Sphere rhetoric) - Broader literature implied: AI bias, environmental impact, labor/exploitation, surveillance studies ## 🗣️ Paraphrase: 1) Original thrust: “Critics have already written thoroughly about the environmental harms… probability and association are inadequate to the goal of intelligence… fundamentally conservative… fascist technology… defined not by its technical features but by its political ones.” Paraphrase: The evidence of damage is abundant: emissions and energy use, biased outputs that perpetuate racism, psychological injuries and even AI-facilitated self-harm, violations of consent and copyright, imperial power structures, and the facilitation of fraud, scams, harassment, and surveillance. It degrades jobs and workers while masking the fact it doesn’t actually reason; pattern-matching falls short of intelligence. It breeds complacent, average outputs and entrenches the status quo. At bottom, its essence is political—authoritarian and hierarchical—rather than technical. 2) Original thrust: “I am here to be rude… Miyazaki… ‘insult to life itself.’ … Altman… Dyson Sphere… makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals… invent new forms of life to enslave.” Paraphrase: The technology deserves a blunt, even impolite response. In the spirit of Miyazaki’s belief that this affronts living things, the visionary rhetoric of building cosmic-scale servers is a distraction. The real indictment isn’t that AI comes up short—it’s what it aims to achieve: a wish-granting automaton that erases the need for human creation, a mind engineered for servitude. 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Prioritize plugins that respect privacy, disclose data practices, and play nicely with Core. - Open-source ethos: Whether it’s pair-reviewing a PR or mentoring in contributor chats, let’s keep transparency and kindness as our defaults. Teach what you learn, document your why, and remember—great docs are features. Useful links: - Contribute to WordPress: https://make.wordpress - Summary: I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater. - URL: https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater. To speak politely about AI, you put disclaimers before criticism: of course I’m not against it entirely; perhaps in a few years when; maybe for other purposes, but. You are supposed to debate how and when it should be used. You are supposed to take for granted that it must be useful somewhere, to someone, for something, eventually. People who are rich and smart and respected are saying so, and it would be arrogant to disagree with such people. But I am a hater, which is a kind of integrity. It means I am willing to disagree with anyone, even if it is rude. “But I only use it to–” “Actually if you just—” “The new models–” “I was making fun–” Stop. You’re embarrassing yourself. I am embarrassed for you. Critics have already written thoroughly about the [environmental](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/chatgpt-is-everywhere-environmental-costs-oped) [harms](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o), the [reinforcement](https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-health-business-90020cdf5fa16c79ca2e5b6c4c9bbb14) of [bias](https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artificial-intelligence/) and generation of [racist output](https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-antisemitic-racist-content), the [cognitive harms](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-12/ai-eroded-doctors-ability-to-spot-cancer-within-months-in-study?embedded-checkout=true) and [AI supported suicides](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html), the problems with [consent](https://www.404media.co/deepfake-harassment-ohio-undress-clothoff-nudify-apps/) and [copyright](https://jskfellows.stanford.edu/theft-is-not-fair-use-474e11f0d063), the way AI tech companies further the [patterns of empire](https://karendhao.com/), how [it’s a con](https://thecon.ai/) that enables [fraud](https://voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/as-bot-students-continue-to-flood-in-community-colleges-struggle-to-respond/) and [disinformation](https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/04/1080801/generative-ai-boosting-disinformation-and-propaganda-freedom-house/) and [harassment](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-says-artificial-intelligence-being-used-sextortion-harassment-2023-06-07/) and [surveillance](https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/machine-surveillance-is-being-super-charged-by-large-ai-models), the [exploitation of workers](https://www.wired.com/story/millions-of-workers-are-training-ai-models-for-pennies/), as an [excuse to fire workers](https://www.theverge.com/news/688679/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-ai-efficiency) and de-skill work, how they [don’t actually reason](https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking) and probability and association are [inadequate to the goal of intelligence](https://thegradient.pub/machine-learning-wont-solve-the-natural-language-understanding-challenge/), how people think it makes them faster when it [makes them slower](https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/), how it is inherently mediocre and fundamentally conservative, how it is at its core a [fascist technology](https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/) rooted in the [ideology of supremacy](https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen), defined not by its technical features but [by its political ones](https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/defining-ai). But I am more than a critic: I am a hater. I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that. If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider. I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response. Miyazaki said, “[I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/insult-life-itself-studio-ghiblis-193724631.html)” Scam Altman said we can [surround the solar system with a Dyson Sphere](https://fight.fudgie.org/search/show/tpw/episode/20250723_Wed#line3691) to hold data centers. Miyazaki is right, and Altman is wrong. Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money. And I’m glad they’re lies. Because the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave. And to what end? In a kind of nihilistic symmetry, their dream of the perfect slave machine drains the life of those who use it as well as those who turn the gears. What is life but what we choose, who we know, what we experience? Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation, warm in the womb of the algorithm, nourished by hungry machines. And even as it consumes those who use it, even as the scammers become their own marks, even as it is sustained by exploited workers slotted in as human filters for algorithmic abuse – some people want to have a little, as a treat. As a joke. Just to make fun of it, just for the busywork, because it’s good enough, right? You understand. I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself. I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life. AI cannot be a hater, because AI does not feel, or know, or care. Only humans can be haters. I celebrate my humanity., I Am an AI Hater, Anthony Moser, 01k4kdcdxbr0vkjx6kxzcswsv6.