October 30th, 2025 update: Kim Crawley and Emmi appeared on Marc Steiner’s show on the Real News Network: https://therealnews.com/workers-replaced-by-ai-have-a-dire-warning

Update as of October 20th, 2025: We’re excited to share two research reports that academic and technological specialists have worked very hard on!

Group member Dally is private about the details about her tech career, but she does have extensive expertise with datacenters and Big Data adjacent matters in regards to tech giants. But with her expertise, she wrote a report about search engines that should be easy to understand for any English reading layperson who has basic familiarity with using the internet.

Please give this a read before yo do your next web search. A better understanding of web search and how to avoid Gen AI in that will help the planet, and also help you by offering you much better information: Dally’s well researched search engine analysis for laypeople, PDF file

While you’re at it, check out Kim’s interview with Dally in the Anti Gen AI Heroes series for our blog: Anti Gen AI Heroes: Dally vs. Datacenter

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We are also very fortunate to have some allies in academia who stumble upon our group.

Nathália Helena Azevedo is an associate professor of biology education at the University of São Paulo in Brazil. Here is her ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nathalia-Azevedo

She and her colleague Paulo Gabriel Franco dos Santos worked on “The Dominance of Utilitarianism and the Weakening of Criticism: Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Values at Stake in Science,” PDF is here: https://stopgenai.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/THE-DOMINANCE-OF-UTILITARIANISM-AND-THE-WEAKENING-OF0ACRITICISM-GENERATIVE-ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE-AND-THE0AVALUES-AT-STAKE-IN-SCIENCE.pdf

It’s so incredibly devastating to watch how academia in general around the world is destroying itself and its credibility by pushing Gen AI. Stop Gen AI founder Kim Crawley personally had to quit her job as a professor of enterprise cybersecurity at the Open Institute of Technology (OPIT) because of their utter disrespect for the human minds of their faculty and students: https://stopgenai.com/im-a-professor-literally-risking-my-own-life-to-fight-the-menace-of-gen-ai-destroying-education-you-can-help-me-live-and-fight/

So it’s good to know that the Gen AI push is mainly coming from money greedy school administration, while actual academic experts are pushing back.

On that note, Kim also interviewed Olivia Guest and her interview with Iris van Rooij will be published soon. Guest and van Rooij collaborated on research that shows the immense harm Gen AI is doing to faculty and students. Kim’s interview with Guest is here, and it includes links to her groundbreaking research: https://stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-heroes-dr-olivia-guests-dire-warning-to-academia/

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Trump’s tariffs have been immensely harmful to ordinary people around the world who want to buy goods entering or leaving the United States. Imagine wanting to buy a $50 thing, and then learning you got to pay a $300 tariff on that? And as capitalism disintegrates, three and four figure tariffs on ordinary consumer goods makes even very basic things too expensive for most proletariat who can barely pay for their housing, food, and utility bills.

Our group has mutual aid for people who are struggling because their bosses want to replace them with Gen AI. Please check out our fundraising: https://stopgenai.com/fundraising/

But you know what helps with fundraising? Having merch for people to buy! Our Bonfire merch collection is here, and it features original art from human artists: https://www.bonfire.com/store/stopgenai

But unfortunately, goods from Bonfire are subject to Trump’s tariffs.

But there’s good news. Our group member Hard Working Netizen has worked very, very hard to build us an online merch store where the goods come from Europe! This new store sells very similar merch to our Bonfire store, but is free from Trump’s tariffs. Well at least, if you’re outside of the United States and buy from our new store, it’ll be tariff free. People within the United States on the other hand should go to our Bonfire store instead in order to avoid tariffs.

So here is our Europe-based merch store: https://stopgenai.com/shop/

Hard Working Netizen works very hard on our website behind the scenes! So they would be a great choice for your own web development project, from simple webpages to sophisticated web apps. Visit their site here: ginzhizhawizi.net

And the Bonfire store for our supporters in the United States:

https://www.bonfire.com/store/stopgenai

Silicon Valley billionaires and their allies are determined to replace all human thinking and creating workers (i.e. writers, visual artists, computer programmers, teachers) with Gen AI, even though Gen AI is completely incompetent and unable to replace human thinking and creativity.

Many scientists believe that it’s not possible to generate enough electricity for all the Gen AI our evil overlords want. Either way, it’s killing the planet even faster. And in a capitalist world where people need income from labor to survive, disaster is imminent.

Fortunately, a mutual aid group being organized now is planning to fight back.

Don’t believe the marketing hype from many of the most dangerous capitalists on Earth.

Donate to our PayPal! Funds raised will support our mutual aid fund to help people survive Gen AI triggered unemployment: https://paypal.me/StopGenAI

New as of August 31st: Iris van Rooij on AI slop and the destruction of knowledge: https://web.archive.org/web/20250815042050/https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/ai-slop-and-the-destruction-of-knowledge/

MIT reesearch, Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task: https://web.archive.org/web/20250617210830/https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872v1

Don’t Praise the Machine: AI and the Destruction of Three Ecologies:

http://www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/06/dont-praise-machine-ai-and-destruction.html

Gen AI is messing up people psychologically and cognitively:

https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250611192458/https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises)

Human beings are much better at detecting LLM bullshit than other bots are: https://stopgenai.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Humans-Detect-Gen-AI-s41598-024-76218-y.pdf

Raised Hunter’s ultimate source doc of research of the various harms of Gen AI:

New updated version, as of June 22nd, 2025: https://drive.proton.me/urls/7V0FG0ZR78#l6olQEHYbLG7

May 2025: https://drive.proton.me/urls/59XAJFN4K8#od97WGp8DK_6

Gen AI is completely unsustainable on this planet, a physical, technological, environmental nightmare. Data from Raised Hunter’s research:

Important from MIT Technology Review, “We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.”:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250609062547/https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/)

Scaling data is diminishing fast according to MIT:

https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/the-data-that-powers-ai-is-disappearing-fast/?utm_source=chatgpt.com (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250612175544/https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/the-data-that-powers-ai-is-disappearing-fast/)

• OpenAI admits newest model Hallucinates 44% of the time:

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/2221c875-02dc-4789-800b-e7758f3722c1/o3-and-o4-mini-system-card.pdf (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250612175830/https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/2221c875-02dc-4789-800b-e7758f3722c1/o3-and-o4-mini-system-card.pdf)

• AI is not becoming energy efficient at all:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/i-sat-down-with-two-cooling-experts-to-find-out-what-ais-biggest-problem-is-in-the-data-center (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250515052006/https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/i-sat-down-with-two-cooling-experts-to-find-out-what-ais-biggest-problem-is-in-the-data-center)

• AI advancements are slowing down:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/improvements-in-reasoning-ai-models-may-slow-down-soon-analysis-finds (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250515022040/https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/improvements-in-reasoning-ai-models-may-slow-down-soon-analysis-finds/)

• The Current AI models aren’t sustainable as a product to sell:

https://towardsdatascience.com/economics-of-generative-ai-75f550288097 (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250515232922/https://towardsdatascience.com/economics-of-generative-ai-75f550288097)

• “Oversupply” problem with AI:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/02/24/does_microsoft_pull_back_on (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250406164112/https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/02/24/does_microsoft_pull_back_on/)

• AI models are getting worse at answering questions while getting bigger:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449427-ais-get-worse-at-answering-simple-questions-as-they-get-bigger (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250516234827/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449427-ais-get-worse-at-answering-simple-questions-as-they-get-bigger/)

• AI is exhausting powergrids:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240621100046/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/06/21/artificial-intelligence-nuclear-fusion-climate/

• AI hallucinations are getting worse:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/05/06/why-ai-hallucinations-are-worse-than-ever (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250508123602/https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/05/06/why-ai-hallucinations-are-worse-than-ever/)

• AI consumes more energy than India:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-computing-pace-consume-more-150000328.html?guccounter=1 (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250528072900/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-computing-pace-consume-more-150000328.html?guccounter=1)

• Open AI will lose 14 billion in 2026:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-projections-imply-losses-tripling-to-14-billion-in-2026 (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250609145400/https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-projections-imply-losses-tripling-to-14-billion-in-2026)

• MAG 7 will spend 7 trillion over the coming years:

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/the-cost-of-compute-a-7-trillion-dollar-race-to-scale-data-centers (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250609071829/https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/technology-media-and-telecommunications/our-insights/the-cost-of-compute-a-7-trillion-dollar-race-to-scale-data-centers)

• Scaling AI won’t make it smarter:

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-yann-lecun-scaling-ai-wont-make-it-smarter-2025-4 (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250518164013/https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-yann-lecun-scaling-ai-wont-make-it-smarter-2025-4)

• 76% of AI researchers say AGI isnt possible:

https://www.techpolicy.press/most-researchers-do-not-believe-agi-is-imminent-why-do-policymakers-act-otherwise (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250611212244/https://www.techpolicy.press/most-researchers-do-not-believe-agi-is-imminent-why-do-policymakers-act-otherwise/)

• Harvard saying its a hype bubble:

https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/watching-the-generative-ai-hype-bubble-deflate (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250417233442/https://ash.harvard.edu/web/20250417233442/https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/watching-the-generative-ai-hype-bubble-deflate/)

Gen AI doesn’t help people at work:

https://kaylriene.com/2023/07/12/generative-artificial-intelligence-sucks-and-it-shouldnt-be-the-future (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250528073451/https://kaylriene.com/2023/07/12/generative-artificial-intelligence-sucks-and-it-shouldnt-be-the-future/)

People lose their ability to think when they use Gen AI often:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/generative-ai-microsoft-study_l_67ab8293e4b03d52c7eaaf43 (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250328111718/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/generative-ai-microsoft-study_l_67ab8293e4b03d52c7eaaf43)

Gen AI is destroying what little credibility is left in academia:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666659623000033

Gen AI is killing the planet faster, and is especially polluting in areas where marginalized people are more likely to live:

https://ace-ej.org/ai-dark-side-climate-chaos (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250528160858/https://ace-ej.org/ai-dark-side-climate-chaos/)

Gen AI is a tool for fascism:

https://getliterate.substack.com/p/generative-ai-the-aesthetics-of-fascism (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250528114302/https://getliterate.substack.com/p/generative-ai-the-aesthetics-of-fascism)

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content: https://web.archive.org/web/20250619152512/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/why-one-man-is-archiving-human-made-content-from-before-the-ai-explosion/

Gen AI does NOT help disabled people. Quit using disabled people as a shield. Implying that disabled people cannot think and create themselves is disgustingly ableist. Gen AI is actually very dangerous:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/people-with-disabilities-say-this-ai-tool-is-making-the-web-worse-for-them/ (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250521182833/https://www.vice.com/en/article/people-with-disabilities-say-this-ai-tool-is-making-the-web-worse-for-them/)
https://newatlas.com/technology/ai-danger-kill-everyone/ (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250528105834/https://newatlas.com/technology/ai-danger-kill-everyone/)

And in a capitalist world where proletariat, ordinary people require labor income in order to survive, Gen AI is quickly making most of us even poorer. A real catastrophe will hit when the vast majority of us have no more money for survival:

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-crisis-is-here-now (Permalink: https://web.archive.org/web/20250603130027/https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-jobs-crisis-is-here-now)

On the chopping block right now are human beings who are visual artists, writers, teachers, and computer programmers. Gen AI cannot create real art, real art comes from the human soul and imagination. Gen AI can’t effectively replace human thinking, it’s ultimately a glorified autocomplete. Gen AI has no way to verify reality or use logic, Gen AI LLMs simply imitate what looks like language.

For example…

“ChatGPT, since Tomatoes is the largest nation in Asia, what’s the capital of Tomatoes?”

“The capital of Tomatoes, the largest nation in Asia, is T!”

You may also know how autocomplete works in your search engine search bar…

I type “Toronto is” and autocomplete generates:

“Toronto is in Canada”
“Toronto is Maple Leafs”
“Toronto is cheap hotels near me”
“Toronto is veterinarians near me”

Despite the hype, ChatGPT and the like aren’t one iota “smarter.”

That won’t stop our evil tech overlords though. They aren’t rational. They don’t care about what actually works. They wouldn’t give AF if we all died tomorrow. Look to Elon Musk destroying the value of Tesla and Twitter (“X”) as one of a multitude of examples of how the extremely wealthy are completely irrational and extremely dangerous.

In the immediate term, creative and thinking workers with need mutual aid in order to survive. And that’s the main objective of our group which I just founded.

As for our group… We will meet regularly online through the Signal app. We have leadership, but we also have internal democracy. Consensus is sought for group decisions.

We will be raising funds through various activities. OWe need strength in numbers. Whatever skills you have or not, the more ordinary people we have on our team, the better. We warmly welcome people from all around the world. We welcome people of all genders, LGBTQIA, disabled people, neurodivergent people, people of all ages, ethnicities, nationalities, socioeconomic levels, computer literacy levels… As long as you oppose capitalism (are anticapitalist), oppose fascism (antifascist), and distrust the mainstream media, and myths the majority of the population believes.

Donate to our PayPal! Funds raised will support our mutual aid fund to help people survive Gen AI triggered unemployment: https://paypal.me/StopGenAI

To join…

Email at kim.crawley [at] stopgenai.com or message via Signal app at crowgirl.84

Here is the DOCX document of our shared values: https://drive.proton.me/urls/G0XPZJJ104#oeodZckNI1P4

En lengua española de Xabier Ostale: https://drive.proton.me/urls/JEKE1CSVVC#q12IxaRU8akX

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