In this sponsored stream, I sat down with William (the founder of Haven Social) and Lucky/Inky to grill them—politely, but still critically—about whether Haven could actually be the “anti-AI, anti-enshittification” platform artists have been begging for. We talked about the stuff that’s making social media unbearable right now: AI slop clogging feeds, platforms shoving AI features into everything, and the whole surveillance mess (including facial recognition scraping like Clearview AI). The pitch with Haven is basically: protect users instead of exploiting them, and be transparent about how the site works. The biggest art-focused takeaway: Haven wants to offer free, built-in “poisoning” for uploads (think Glaze/Nightshade-style protection) so you don’t need a beefy PC or a complicated setup to defend your work. We also got into how they plan to keep AI content off the platform—watermark checks where possible, imperfect auto-detection, and a community-driven reporting/survey system that rewards users and routes that money back to creators. On top of that, they’re saying the quiet part out loud: AI slop thrives because it’s monetizable, so they plan to block monetization for AI-generated content and handle appeals with actual humans. Yes, the bar is that low.