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The Anti-AI Protests Have Arrived in Portland, and This is Only the Beginning

By @jaredwhite | @theinternet

According to reports from pro-#AI attendees at a business meetup in #Portland, #Oregon, anti-AI protesters showed up outside, throwing eggs and paint at cars and distributing pamphlets with the following message:

“BUTLERIAN JIHAD AGAINST AI

never ending destruction and death propels the machine of progress. AI rides on the front of this beast, annihilating humanity, leaving nothing in its wake but sterile boxes to lock us in and apps to keep us sedated. while the techies are inside sipping their cocktails the rest of us are faced with a choice: to accept our position at the bottom of the social order or find our people and bring the whole thing down. only we can decide to smash the screens that are brainwashing us into submission.

the time is now,

the day is here,

ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!”

Read more: https://theinternet.review/2025/08/15/the-anti-ai-protests-are-here/

Image of a protest pamphlet with the headline “BUTLERIAN JIHAD AGAINST AI.” Below the title is a paragraph that begins: “never ending destruction and death propels the machine of progress. AI rides on the front of this beast, annihilating humanity, leaving nothing in its wake but sterile boxes to lock us in and apps to keep us sedated. while the techies are inside sipping their cocktails the rest of us are faced with a choice: to accept our position at the bottom of the social order or find our people and bring the whole thing down. only we can decide to smash the screens that are brainwashing us into submission.” It ends with the lines: “the time is now, the day is here, ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!”
Image of a protest pamphlet with the headline “BUTLERIAN JIHAD AGAINST AI.” Below the title is a paragraph that begins: “never ending destruction and death propels the machine of progress. AI rides on the front of this beast, annihilating humanity, leaving nothing in its wake but sterile boxes to lock us in and apps to keep us sedated. while the techies are inside sipping their cocktails the rest of us are faced with a choice: to accept our position at the bottom of the social order or find our people and bring the whole thing down. only we can decide to smash the screens that are brainwashing us into submission.” It ends with the lines: “the time is now, the day is here, ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!”
Image of a protest pamphlet with the headline “BUTLERIAN JIHAD AGAINST AI.” Below the title is a paragraph that begins: “never ending destruction and death propels the machine of progress. AI rides on the front of this beast, annihilating humanity, leaving nothing in its wake but sterile boxes to lock us in and apps to keep us sedated. while the techies are inside sipping their cocktails the rest of us are faced with a choice: to accept our position at the bottom of the social order or find our people and bring the whole thing down. only we can decide to smash the screens that are brainwashing us into submission.” It ends with the lines: “the time is now, the day is here, ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK!”