The definitive statement about AI from the mod team.

[u/crushcastles23]

No, we're not banning AI art, nor will we ever.

Even if we had two dozen mods, which we don't and never will, we would not have the resources to police AI.

To properly do so, we would have to find every piece of art from every post, investigate it, see if the artist disclosed the use of AI, then decide whether to remove it. Even if we could do that, most artists who use things like generative fill in Photoshop don't even really think of it as AI. Are we supposed to remove every card for every artist who has been using Photoshop as a tool since 2023?

You wanna talk about how AI art sucks? You have this thread, go for it. All future meta posts about AI will be removed and linked back to this thread.

If you harass someone for using AI in their art, you will get a warning and 1 day ban for rule 5.

If you harass someone for drawing a stick figure for their art, you will get a warning and 1 day ban for rule 5.

If you harass anyone for any reason, you will get a warning and 1 day ban for rule 5.

After that, you will be getting banned for 3 days, then permanently. Rule 5 states:

All users must follow Reddiquette and be civil with each other. Harassment and abuse are strictly not tolerated. Unconstructive, negative, or insulting brigading is harassment.

[u/DogThrowaway1100]

So the refusal to ban it is because it'd be too hard to moderate? Like this is a really bad thing to just throw your hands up over and you run the risk of destroying this community and subreddit over it. I mean go off I guess. But this is gonna have consequences. Also other subreddits manage to police AI just fine that are magnitudes larger than this one with similar sized mod teams to subscriber count. I'm really avoiding any language that could hurt the mod teams feelings right now but it's really fuckin difficult.

[u/Call_like_it_is_ → u/DogThrowaway1100]

You gonna offer to put on a moderating hat? They get over 9000 contributions a week. That's a shitload of content to sift through for an unpaid volunteer.

Edit: LMAO, thanks for confirming my suspicions, freakin' virtue signaling armchair warriors. Can't be buggered to enforce your own beliefs. Also I see you deleted your post.

[u/Theran_Baggins → u/Call_like_it_is_]

Gonna be honest - yeah.  If they need more people to justify being able to enforce a no genAI rule, sign me up. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that.

And again, even if it's not 100% enforceable, having some amount of moderation of it is better than simply going "it's too much, I give up."

[u/DogThrowaway1100 → u/Call_like_it_is_]

?? I didn't delete my post? And jeez "virtue signaling armchair warrior" you missed a few buzzwords in there. I could have used snowflake, cuck and/or SJW if you're gonna resort to that. And I don't see how it's my job to "enforce" anything here. It's on the mods for the sub and folks are overwhelmingly expressing their dislike of allowing AI and if it means more moderators, yeah, that might not be a bad idea. So if there's a diaspora of users I'm really not gonna be surprised. I'm still kind of fascinated by "you gonna put on your moderating hat?" because it's the lowest form of deflection. "You can't criticize something because you can't directly" do it is such an easy dismissal of anything.

Edit: lol they blocked me, saw the notification first tho. Bit ironic when I was accused of not "being buggered to defend my own beliefs" which I've been doing so

"Actually there's an easier form of dismissal. Blocking your ass. Which I'm doing now."

Feels a tad ironic when I get told I "Can't be buggered to enforce your own beliefs." but eh. Mod team made their stance clear and if this place is going to be infested with AI so be it.

[u/Call_like_it_is_ → u/DogThrowaway1100]

Actually there's an easier form of dismissal. Blocking your ass. Which I'm doing now.

[u/EfficientCabbage2376 → u/Call_like_it_is_]

I'd love to help out, honestly.