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Resistance Against GenAI

May 30, 2025


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CONTENT WARNING: Some discussion about United States politics.

Going out of my way to avoid using or seeing generative AI is becoming more of an act of resistance these days. I started this website to have a space outside of the mental quagmire that is modern-day social media, but now I’m starting to understand this is more of a personal extension of myself and my innermost thoughts. Just like my artwork and (work in progress) comics, I have bared my soul into everything I’ve ever worked on by myself, and if I didn’t make something, then I’ll give credit where it’s due.

I don’t need smart speakers to search something for me. I don’t need an algorithm to show social media posts for me. I don’t need a chatbot built on Large Language Models to write stuff for me. I don’t need cars to drive for me. I don’t need to automate the most mundane daily tasks because I like to learn through experience, and I like to use my brain for critical thinking.

I will admit that the only automated things I still use are search engines, grammar checkers like Grammarly, or other simple systems that can transfer files between storage devices when I tell them to. Cutting out the simple tedium through automated processes can be helpful even without using genAI, of course.

Also, some automated systems can potentially be useful for people with certain disabilities, like blind people using a smart speaker, but I cannot speak on their behalf because I don’t have that kind of experience. It’s one thing if you have to rely on technology to make up for your disabilities, but it’s another thing when you’re surrendering your thoughts and feelings to a technology that doesn’t need to exist. This is, arguably, what genAI has become.

I’ve already written an exhaustive essay on why you should never use generative AI, so I have zero fucks left to give for a destructive technology. But this time, through the power of the persuasive essay, I would like to explore why people are still using technology that can think for them, especially among today’s youth and in political spheres. Remember Wall-E? We are literally transforming into those lethargic space passengers on that enormous spaceship.

Holy Anomalocaris, this movie predicted iPad babies!


The Kids Are Not (Treated) Alright

Resisting the temptation to use genAI will set an example for younger generations. This HuffPost article I read is giving me little hope for our current generation of high schoolers and college students:

I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else.

One of my students began to panic.

“I have to ask Google the prompt to get some ideas if I can’t just use AI,” she pleaded and then began typing into the search box on her screen, “A time when someone believed in you.”

“It’s about you,” I told her. “You’ve got your life experiences inside of your own mind.”

— Liz Rose Shulman, HuffPost

Girl, you’re turning to Google…to answer a question about yourself?? What?! And I thought that kids becoming technologically illiterate because of those damn Chromebooks was bad enough. Anyway, the passage continues:

It hadn’t occurred to her — even with my gentle reminder — to look within her own imagination to generate ideas. One of the reasons why I assigned the prompt is because learning to think for herself now, in high school, will help her build confidence and think through more complicated problems as she gets older — even when she’s no longer in a classroom situation.

She’s only in ninth grade, yet she’s already become accustomed to outsourcing her own mind to digital technologies, and it frightens me.

When I teach students how to write, I’m also teaching them how to think. Through fits and starts (a process that can be both frustrating and rewarding), high school English teachers like me help students get to know themselves better when they use language to figure out what they think and how they feel.

— Liz Rose Shulman, HuffPost

Actually, I should rephrase what I said earlier: I have little hope for this generation of high schoolers and college students because of the technology that’s being imposed upon a captive audience such as them.

It’s important to understand that kids did not become technologically illiterate (or lack critical thinking) because they are inherently stupid. It’s quite the contrary: kids are not thinking for themselves because of emergent technologies that allow them to barely think or have self-confidence in the first place.

A good example that illustrates this point is another passage in the same article about how social media affects people, particularly younger generations:

Unfortunately, it’s becoming harder to teach them that their ideas have value because they’ve subcontracted out their minds to their screens. They get their news on TikTok and YouTube and do their shopping based on ads they see in between the videos they watch.

One of my students told me there was no point to writing anymore for my class because now “AI just does it for us.” He doesn’t value the writing process because — despite how hard I’m trying — he’s constantly being bombarded with messages that he shouldn’t.

Whether it’s an advertisement for Grammarly on YouTube encouraging my students to add its new Chrome extension on their Google Docs or a video on TikTok enticing them to download the latest version of ChatGPT, my kids are constantly inundated with carefully curated messages that encourage them to be passive consumers in the classroom.

The messaging they receive is so strategically targeted to my students, it can give them a false sense of who they are, while at the same time increasing their dependence on these products.

— Liz Rose Shulman, HuffPost

“They’ve subcontracted out their minds to their screens” is such a powerful line and it needs to be shouted to the heavens. Social media is a beast of its own, but nowadays they can overlap with genAI systems. Mainstream social media sites are one of many tech platforms that come with AI chatbots built in, and some of them like Twitter’s Grok can summarize who you are with frightening accuracy.

In a way, genAI feels like an invasive advertisement, because modern-day advertising is all about all trying to get you hooked onto something that is meant to surrender your mind to their products, and eventually depend on them. It’s despicable, so I have to take measures to protect myself from ads, which is why I don’t use TikTok, hide YouTube’s recommendation feed, and always use a web browser with an ad blocker. I wouldn’t mind if the advertised product in question is a tool that somebody can learn how to use on their own, but if the product is supposed to do the mental heavy-lifting for them? Then that’s when I get suspicious and have to ask, “What’s the catch?” This is exactly what’s happening with kids browsing on TikTok and being left to the whims of their algorithmic “For You” feed or "Discovery" feed because they don’t know any better, and nobody’s stopping them. The same gullible people who fall for genAI would also fall for the dumbest advertisements.

Take video games, for example—I felt this to a small degree with these stupid little 3D animated ads I keep seeing on Tumblr that showcase mobile games. The ads look AMAZING, but then when you go to the product page for the mobile game, it neither looks nor plays like it did in the advertisement.

Usually, the rampant false advertising these games use will stop me from downloading a free mobile game, but there were times when the game successfully snared me into playing it. While I am adamant about spending no money on microtransactions, I am still getting caught up in an addictive game loop that depends on me getting short bursts of dopamine whenever I complete a task in a game. However, since I know damn well what my taste in video games is, especially knowing that most of my favorite games are not time-wasting mobile apps, I would have to learn how to break out of the spell at some point, usually when I get to the point where my suspension of disbelief kicks in and I realize “goddamn, my attention is being used by this stupid free game!”

They played us like a damn fiddle!

They played us like a damn fiddle!

[Insert obligatory “Why are we still here? Just to suffer?” quote]

And that’s just free-to-play mobile games! Never mind the amount of untold mental AND financial damage these things can do to players through microtransactions. These predatory monetary systems can enable gambling addictions, whether it’s on every damn mobile game on Earth or Triple-A games that come with the same gambling mechanics that even kids have access to. If you do not want your kids playing games with microtransactions, then you should not let your kids use genAI!

This is what we’re up against with genAI, but worse than advertising: it’s a technology that lures in a captive audience, makes them depend on it, and keeps the audience glued to their seat because otherwise trying to escape it would be exceedingly difficult. I believe we have to treat kids with the utmost care, especially nowadays. Kids are highly impressionable, you need to nurture their minds, let them think for themselves, and continue that practice throughout grade school and beyond. Let them write, create, or speak on topics that they believe in.

I never got a firm grasp on critical thinking and ethics until after I graduated from college in my mid-20s, but a lot of that was practiced through writing. Though I went through many trials and tribulations through failed attempts at writing effective persuasive essays, I kept trying, no matter how good or bad my writing is nowadays. Writing helps exercise my mind in a way that keeps me alert, curious, and skeptical about many things related to my core interests.

This is what we need. We need more people who can think for themselves like this.


Being Shitty is the Point

Resisting the temptation to use genAI will distance yourself from the craven assholes who cherish it. In my experience, the only people who don’t care about how shitty genAI is are business majors or conservatives. Sometimes, these two groups intersect with top-tier scumbags like Elon Musk or Donald Trump and will leverage genAI as a tool for spreading fascist propaganda, such as one image that hails Trump as a king (gross). GenAI is but one of the many tools used in Trump & Musk’s current war of attrition upon average people inside the United States and out.

Conservatives love this genAI garbage because they can say what’s on their feeble minds, with their full chest, without learning how to make art. That sure says a lot when a conservative wingnut uses a brainless technology! While tried and true artists who make hateful imagery are particularly shitty in their own right (and it CAN happen on social media), being a bigot and an artist are not mutually exclusive. Just like a greedy business executive, conservatives will gladly take a system that can expedite their goals at a low cost and not even worry about how their genAI output will look like a twisted fever dream.

Between eager conservatives and children developing a dependence on genAI, I can’t help but feel that this will make everyone, on average, a lot dumber on purpose. That’s how the authoritarians get ya! Those AI-dependent kids can quite possibly grow up to respect the Republicans more because the kids may not think for themselves. Throw in some blind hatred against a minority group, and you’ve got yourself the next generation of puppeteered conservatives! It’s sad to think about, honestly.

To make a man never care about his presentation, imagined or not, he needs to have no empathy or creativity left within him. Wealthy oligarchs like Trump have no shame in making displays of power, no matter how tacky they look. Their embracement of genAI is about as embarrassingly shameless as Trump’s shitty haircut, which this article from New Socialist sums up perfectly in this passage:

Trump’s haircut, which we all seem to have become inured to…looks like shit and that’s the point. It is a display of power and a small act of cruelty.

— Gareth Watkins, New Socialist

Conservatism and the wealthy elite go hand-in-hand when they have a shared interest in punching down at the working class and everyday people. Hell, this overlap has literally manifested within Trump’s second term this year with the destructive involvement of Elon Musk. When you’re so rich and powerful that you can get away with doing stupid shit without giving a care in the world, then nothing can stop you until someone else forces you to. Sometimes, billionaires do it for attention. Sometimes, billionaires do it for money. Sometimes, a billionaire will shamelessly sell you an overrated product that one of its data centers is now guilty of spreading methane gas as air pollution, causing anyone who lives around the data center to be hospitalized for asthma.

To circle back on genAI as an arm of fascism, there’s no direct way to financially kneecap it outside of slow-moving legislation. We need solutions to tarnish genAI’s reputation while the government takes forever to regulate it. That said, you know one strategy that can help diminish the social value of a gaudy thing? Calling it a cheap piece of shit. Or, in a less vulgar way, call it dumb, weird, or stupid. Sure, I will always mention WHY genAI is bad for the environment or the general populace, but that won’t stop bigots from using it. Consider this when you look at genAI alongside conservatives:

...the right wing psyche is incredibly fragile. For some reason, they are able to process any inversion of empirical reality, but are acutely sensitive to being laughed at. Calling them weird absolutely works, and telling them their sole artistic output looks like shit also works. Laughing at people who treat AI art as in any way legitimate works. Talking about AI’s environmental impact or its implications for the workforce will not work - they like that, it makes them feel dangerous. Instead of talking about taking money from artists, talk about how it makes them look cheap. If hurting and offending people is part of the point, then we can take that fun away from them by refusing to express hurt or offence, even if we feel it.

— Gareth Watkins, New Socialist

If dumb premium technologies like Google Glass and the Cybertruck can fail, in part, because they’re gaudy enough to make someone look like a chump, then anything is possible if enough people call it out as an embarrassment. Even more so when said technology is associated with fascist purveyors. Remember this: if your first reaction to seeing a Nazi in person is to punch ‘em in the face, then your first reaction to seeing a genAI image is to call it shit. Call it cheap. Call it weird. Call it dumb. Literally anything that gives it a bad name.

A person who succumbs to genAI—no, EMBRACES genAI—and uses the soulless machine to spread hate is a person who never had a soul to begin with (figuratively speaking). That doesn’t make them edgy or badass; that makes them as cheap as dirt. If conservative fascists have made their entire personality around hatred and pivoted to making genAI slop, then they don’t deserve respect when they’re already disrespectful in the first place. It’s entirely justified, you see.


Making Art Without GenAI

Resisting the temptation to use genAI is to accept your limitations. Generative AI’s biggest incentive is that you can “create” things that you otherwise couldn’t make before, particularly for non-artists…but genAI is all a sham. A piece of software is incapable of creation when the best it can do is mash together text, sounds, or images to make something “new” out of preexisting media. It can only output derivative media.

GenAI has become the autotune of our generation: Singers who once thought they couldn’t perfectly hit particular notes fell back on a software solution to cover up their imperfections instead of accommodating their limits or practicing to sing better. GenAI is like autotune but at a more widespread level: People are falling back on this regurgitative software that lacks context and soul instead of learning and understanding how to write, draw, or compose music.

You know what people did before the advent of genAI? They EMBRACED their imperfections and created art anyway, limitations be damned. A Tumblr thread I stumbled on provided great examples in the comics and manga spaces. Rich Berlew, author and artist of The Order of the Stick, started with uneven panel shapes and nothing but stick-figure characters for a fantasy story. 20 years later, the comic has, more or less, embraced its imperfections as a unique art style while continuing its bizarre narrative. The environment art has greatly improved while every character still looks like a stick figure, so it’s a testament to the author’s pursuit to continue this story in his image. See for yourself in the comic’s thousand-page catalog!

This reminded me of another stick figure comic that has been around for a long time as well: xkcd by Randall Munroe. When compared to The Order of the Stick, xkcd is even less detailed, but it’s stood the test of time because it’s nerdy and it’s hilarious. As a long-running comic strip series, a lot of its jokes revolve around math, science, and statistics, but it often applies those fields in ridiculous ways. What are the working theories for Jupiter’s core? What would happen if you arranged certain math & science careers by purity? What could possibly go wrong if you try to make more helium? A lot of the gags are preposterous on purpose, and while many jokes can go over people’s heads (myself included), there’s still a good smattering of comic strips that anyone can understand.

Here’s a case of an inexperienced artist making some highly influential manga: ONE, the author/artist behind One Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100, went through a similar journey. The first versions of One Punch Man’s webmanga run were full of shaky drawings and messy linework, but the intriguing concepts that ONE managed to put out on pen and paper shone through regardless of that. A superhero who can defeat anyone with a single punch? How crazy is that?! While One Punch Man later got redrawn by a prolific industry manga artist, it put the series through the same general anime/manga aesthetic that I’m sure everyone is used to by now. It got homogenized, for better or worse. However, ONE did make the artwork for Mob Psycho 100, and while his artwork was still imperfect, it has definitely improved.

What all of these comic/manga artists have in common is that they created what they wanted, despite what their output looks like. It’s exactly what game devs call an instance where they stumble on an unintended result that technically doesn’t break the game: “It’s a feature, not a bug.” Or, as Aggro Crab likes to put it, they keep these things in their games like Another Crab's Treasure because it’s funny as hell. As long as you’re having fun and have the curiosity to explore it further, then you should do it. Or better yet, to steal one last thing from that Tumblr thread I’m referencing from, consider this powerful quote from Bob Ross:

Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

I’m gonna have to engrave this into my memory.

Sometimes, I’ve had trouble finding the difference between “talent” and “skill,” but knowing that “talent is a pursued interest,” this makes me believe that both terms can go hand-in-hand. Calling someone “talented” implies that they were born with the ability to pursue their interest, while calling someone “skilled” implies that they dedicated time learning how to do something well. Both terms do not stand well on their own, as calling someone “talented” places high expectations on an ability that’s implied to be naturally gifted, while calling someone “skilled” doesn’t account for how much that person loves their skill. However, the best kind of person is one who pursues an interest in it and is willing to learn how to do it, regardless of how much they have developed their skills in it. Do they have to be a master at it? Not always, especially when one is open to finding room for improvement.

Furthermore, if you have even the tiniest interest in drawing, writing, or making music, then that puts you leagues beyond the chumps who are relying on genAI to make stuff for them. You don’t even have to be good at drawing or even think your artwork is good, you just have to be interested in it. Consider this other Tumblr post that talks about how the impostor syndrome has plagued artists for ages:

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

I will ALSO have to engrave this into my memory.

The bar has been set so low for artistic standards that you can be leagues better than anyone as long as you never use genAI. The only thing that can propel you over that bar is if you can draw, period. It doesn’t matter how good or bad you are at it, you just have to do it, even badly. As an illustrator, I know that I am better than those who are willing, or even CONFIDENT, enough to use genAI to make visual slop. Needlessly calling myself a fraud or second-guessing my artistic ability, as it typically goes with creatives with imposter syndrome, will now mean nothing when ACTUAL frauds are using genAI.

Remember this the next time you encounter some knucklehead using genAI as a shortcut, or if you encounter a popular & experienced artist who destroys their reputation by using genAI. Call them frauds instead of beating yourself up.

The artists behind The Order of the Stick, xkcd, and Mob Psycho 100 kept making art because of their pursued interest in their work, and not because they’re “the best” artists. I kept making my website because I pursued the interest of building one while frankensteining a bunch of other code pieces into it, and not because I am “the best” web developer. When you make things with love in your heart, then people will see it and they will cherish it. Conversely, people will also know when you try to make things without love in your heart, and that’s what makes genAI so soulless and cowardly. AIbros are not using genAI because it’s easy; it’s because they have no love for the craft, and this extends beyond the realms of artwork into things like politics and education.


Don’t be Braindead

Resisting the temptation to use genAI is to protect your dignity and autonomy. It’s important to remember that the human mind is a deep and intricate thing, as illustrated by Oisín McGann’s BlueSky thread on genAI:

My mother is a speech and language therapist, and there’s an example she uses to explain how we develop language. The cup. As a baby, you start with no language. Then you will [start] using a cup around the same time that you start understanding the word ‘cup’ when it’s said to you.

It’s a physical thing that you use. It’s not just your brain interpreting a word, it’s your whole body interacting with it. You have to hold it, keep it upright, tip it to drink from it. It has solidity and weight. You learn that ‘cup’ can refer to all kinds of cup, not just one thing.

— Oisín McGann, BlueSky

Later in the thread, when McGann mentions “lorem ipsum” text as an example of linguistic gibberish, he brings up the point that “It’s not meant to be read. This is how an AI sees text. It cannot understand meaning, but what it *can* do, is associate other words with that first word and assign a probability to what word comes next based on a prompt.” This makes humans inherently better than genAI systems because they can understand context. It’s second nature, and a wise person would consider context without thinking too hard. A human learning how to attribute a cup, an object, with the word “cup” cannot be the same as a machine that can only predict what comes after the word “cup” with zero understanding or context of what a cup is. In my previous essay about genAI, I know I said that genAI cannot think, much less create, but likening it to a filler text generator that can only write lorem ipsums is an incredible example.

But even knowing this, it makes me all the more heartbroken that people are depending on genAI systems instead of using their heads.

When I brought up the HuffPost article to my mom, a high school teacher, she mentioned how the education system is now caught up in a catch-22 situation: If today’s workforce is using automated systems like genAI then so should the students in school, but at the same time the students need to learn how to think for themselves, otherwise, they may not have much of an identity to build off of. Sure, maybe these kids nowadays can learn to grow out of it and stop depending on genAI systems, but many of them won’t. That should be terrifying.

Anecdotes like my mother’s current experience as a high school teacher can drive home the idea that using automated systems to outsource our minds is extremely dangerous to the spirit of humanity. Habitually doing the least amount of thinking possible will strip us of our autonomy and erode our sense of critical thinking. We need solutions that enrich the human mind, not technologies that are sold as dumbed-down products by a techbro billionaire. But also, it bears repeating that automated technologies like genAI chatbots have been imposed upon us, not given, Imposed. Chromebooks were imposed upon high school students about as much as genAI was imposed upon every facet of everybody’s lives. Do we need genAI? Fuck no. But do the companies that make those products WANT you to think you need it? Absolutely.

It all boils down to resisting a scummy advertisement from a corporation: don’t buy into something that you don’t need, because it’s overpromising on a product that’s actually shit, just like a mobile game ad. A braindead mind will simply buy whatever an advertisement tells it to, but a smarter mind will make informed decisions, even if it’s for the simplest reasons. However, this is easier said than done with some products more than others because nowadays, technologies like Chromebooks and genAI chatbots have been shoved down our throats so hard that average people are taking the bait against their better judgment. My mom is one of them, despite what she had told me before: in the past, she has occasionally talked about using genAI to develop lesson plans for her teaching job, but as of writing, I don’t know if she still does that anymore.

If you have even a shred of empathy for yourself and others, you need to exercise your mind. You have GOT to use your noggin because people are already (metaphorically speaking) trading their brains for systems that will never be as good as a human mind. This is everything we said was wrong with people “watching too much TV” or “playing too many video games” coming to fruition. Resist the temptation. Believe me, the moment that you start using generative AI is the day that you surrender your sense of self, and this is exactly what the people running these AI systems want, so you can depend on their products.

Don’t make yourself or those you love slaves to an algorithm. GenAI is shit, so don’t tread into the mud pit with it. Avoid genAI not just because it’s shit, but to also protect your dignity. Exercise your brain. Create. Even if it looks bad, Create. Keep going! Draw, write, code, anything!

Refusing to use genAI systems is going to be a continuous act of resistance for us all, so let’s act like it.







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