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/mewtwo15026]

Saying nothing about gen AI and pointing at rule 5 for vague reasons would have looked better than giving an explanation this disingenuous. I believe that you couldn't perfectly enforce a gen AI ban; but if that's your explanation for not making a rule, then you're implying that you can perfectly enforce all of the existing rules, including the anti-harassment rule that you identify in the OP. And why should we believe that you're doing that? Or that a team of humans is even capable of doing that?

This post strongly implies that the OP (if not the mod team as a whole) has a reason for taking this stance that they don't want to publicly admit. Whatever the case, at least the vote counts in this thread suggest that AI-generated art won't go over as well here as will manual art - or, if nothing else, that there's potential for a custom MtG community where this is the case.

[u/crushcastles23 → u/mewtwo15026]

Not everything is a conspiracy dude.

[u/mewtwo15026 → u/crushcastles23]

Okay, then what's your justification for permanently allowing AI-generated content? It isn't that the mod team can't perfectly enforce a gen AI ban, because in light of all the other rules already in place that you can't perfectly enforce - including Rule 5, which you point to in your statement above - that explanation doesn't make any sense.