Toronto, Ontario Mar 25, 2026 (Issuewire.com) - "Why isn't anyone doing anything to push back against Gen AI?” people often ask.
Here are some experiences that people have told Stop Gen AI about:
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Gen AI is being installed onto PCs and phones without their consent, in operating systems, local applications, and online applications and social media.
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People are becoming addicted to AI chatbots, and allegedly it’s common for the chatbots to encourage people to do harmful things.
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Experts are concerned that Gen AI is making people delegate their thinking to tech companies.
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People have expressed concern about how tech companies control the output of Gen AI and how that may be influencing their thinking.
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Cybersecurity professionals allege that tech companies are using Gen AI to help law enforcement surveil people who haven't been suspected of committing any crimes.
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Artists, writers, researchers, translators, teachers, and freelancers have spoken about losing their livelihoods.
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People say they miss having privacy, art created by humans, words written by humans.
Stop Gen AI offers the following services:
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Guidance to help people remove Gen AI from their lives. By choosing different software and finding alternative online services, Gen AI can be completely removed from phones and PCs that people own. Stop Gen AI is led by cybersecurity experts who will show you how.
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Mutual aid fundraising for people who have lost income and livelihoods.
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Starting this spring, support groups are being planned for people who need compassionate help to liberate themselves from emotional attachment to AI chatbots. These groups will be in the style of AA, conducted online with only real human beings, and will be led by people who were addicted to AI chatbots in the past.
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They are coordinating with groups that have been protesting the construction of datacenters.
Visit StopGenAI.com to subscribe to their free newsletter. For your privacy, all they ask for is an email address. There's also a form on their homepage to help them plan support groups to help people stop their AI chatbot dependency, and educational sessions to learn how to remove Gen AI from PCs and phones that people own.
Climate change is very real. Climate scientists forecast that much of the Earth will be uninhabitable in the next couple of decades. (See the World Meteorological Organization report, “Earth’s climate swings increasingly out of balance.” https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/earths-climate-swings-increasingly-out-of-balance) They say that mass food and water shortages are coming very soon. MIT research shows that Gen AI usage is very likely a major contributing factor to environmental destruction. (See the MIT research report “POWER HUNGRY: AI and our energy future.” https://technologyreview.com/supertopic/ai-energy-package/)
“I visualize forests burning down and lakes being drained with each and every ‘prompt',” said Stop Gen AI founder and cybersecurity professor Kim Crawley.
Ordinary people who live near datacenters say they have been dealing with skyrocketing electricity bills that they often cannot pay. (See Brookings Institution’s “Confronting and addressing rising energy bills linked to data centers,” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/confronting-and-addressing-rising-energy-bills-linked-to-data-centers/).
Generative AI has been a marketing term that has only been used for the past few years. It tries to take all of the data on the internet, absolutely all of it, as much internet data as possible. It consumes more electricity than our power grid can support, according to MIT research.
LLM experts such as Emily Bender say that Gen AI repeats word patterns found on the internet without understanding meaning, mashes up pictures found on the internet without understanding meaning, repeats sound patterns and video patterns found in video and audio files on the internet without understanding meaning. And it’s not the kind of machine learning that has useful applications in medical research. (See Financial Times, “AI sceptic Emily Bender: ‘The emperor has no clothes’” https://www.ft.com/content/9029cc1c-4a3f-42ca-9939-f3ef8e8336ae and research by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, “Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01067-2)
There is no agreed-upon definition of artificial intelligence in computer science. Scientists such as Dr. Nicholas Weaver and Dr. Emily Bender explain that artificial intelligence has always been a marketing term. (See “Nicholas Weaver: The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter” https://podbay.fm/p/pivot-to-ai/e/1762516620 and “Is AI a Scam? We Ask Prof. Emily Bender, Author of ‘The AI Con’” https://theblindmachine.com/is-ai-a-scam-we-ask-prof-emily-bender-author-of-the-ai-con/)
Stop Gen AI believes that effective change doesn't come through the political system. Effective change comes from the grassroots.
Stop Gen AI is led by computer science and cybersecurity experts, artists, writers, and people with labor organizing and activism experience.
Kim Crawley is the founder of Stop Gen AI. She taught cybersecurity at the Open Institute of Technology and she has written many books and whitepapers for some of the biggest tech companies. She founded Stop Gen AI is May 2025 when she realized that she was losing a lot of income because the tech industry erroneously thinks Gen AI can do her work. See her body of work at kimcrawley.com.
Her upcoming book, "Technofascism Survival Guide," had a successful Kickstarter campaign recently. There's a growing interest in having better cybersecurity and privacy as people are concerned about the future. Kim aims to make the guide easy for ordinary people to understand and use. You can still order an eBook as a "late pledge" for only about $12 USD from Kickstarter. June is the deadline: kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide
David Gerard has been a critic of tech industry nonsense for many years ago, including of cryptocurrency and NFTs. He creates Pivot to AI, a blog and YouTube show that criticizes the absurd ridiculousness of Gen AI five times per week. He has already attracted the attention of other prominent Gen AI critics, including Ed Zitron. Visit pivot-to-ai.com to enjoy both the blog and the podcast.
Hard Working Netizen is a humble software developer who is a tremendous asset to Stop Gen AI behind the scenes. Including their mastery at fixing the ridiculous bugs Kim introduced to the website.
They are currently working on "What Has To Happen", which intends to include and expound upon the theoretical formulations as proposals alongside a historical analysis of production, colonization, migration, the contemporary nature of the class struggle within globalization and the state of our climate: world multilateral socialist thought, spectrum of careabilitiy, and self-obliteration.
Ryan Wilson studies Marxism. He also writes blogs, is working on a novel, and he works hard to look after the people he loves, his local community, and his family. Check out wilson-reads.ghost.io.
Katie Schmitt is a former nurse who abandoned the healthcare profession long before COVID-19 made structural failures impossible to ignore. Now living quietly in rural northern Sweden, observing societal breakdown with clinical detachment. She believes that Gen AI will bring large-scale job loss, environmental destruction, plus human mistakes amplified at machine speed.
Emmi Einstein is a cybersecurity expert who used to work for Activision Blizzard. When she was there, she led their employees in a successful unionization effort. That was before the company was acquired by Microsoft. She’s also part of the team that’s responsible for Your Anon News, a connection between the Anonymous hacktivism group and the world through social media accounts with lots of followers.
People who are interested in AI chatbot addiction support groups, datacenter protests, learning how to avoid Gen AI, and financial mutual aid should sign up for the free email newsletter via StopGenAI.com.
People who are interested in joining Stop Gen AI’s inner circle should message Kim through the Signal app via crowgirl.84.
Stop Gen AI has mutual aid fundraising efforts with t-shirts, mugs, and email accounts that show the world how much you hate Gen AI, featuring original human-created art. They can be found in the top menu of StopGenAI.com.
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