I knew there was an anti-AI wave, but I didn’t realize how brutal it could get until yesterday.
One of my posts went viral on Threads, and I’ll be honest: out of the 10K comments, probably 90% were negative. Some were hateful, some were also threatening.
The good part is… the post brought me new followers and over 800K views in 24 hours, and it’s still climbing.
People don’t always realize that when they pile onto a post, they’re also helping it travel further. 😆
What disappoints me most is that this could have been such an interesting conversation.
Imagine if all those comments had been actual arguments about why people dislike AI, what they’re afraid of, what they think we’re losing, and where they think the line should be.
That would have made an incredible discussion.
I posted the same thing here on X. It performed well too, but the negativity was nowhere near as intense.
After a few hours I limited the replies to verified accounts only, and now some of the unverified people are upset because they can’t comment. 🤦♂️
Now let me make something clear: 🔊
I’m still going to talk about AI.
I’m still going to create with it.
And I’m only going to listen or reply when someone disagrees with me respectfully.
The best conversations don’t happen when everyone agrees. They happen when we can also disagree without forgetting there’s a human being on the other side of the screen.
Normalize calling AI artists, artists.
Normalize calling AI content, content.
Normalize calling AI music, music.
Normalize calling AI films, films.
Normalize calling AI photography, photography.
Normalize calling AI design, design.
Normalize calling AI-built apps, apps.
Normalize calling AI-assisted writing, writing…
It’s time we stop treating AI-assisted creation like it belongs in a separate category forever.