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Just curious, are AI generated art pieces ever going to find their way into Featured Images, or has the staff decided to keep those out of nomination?
Lil_VampireCJ 
Lil_VampireCJ
I doubt they’d ever really be allowed or picked as it isn’t real art & would be quite insulting towards real artists & the artist community in general meaning it would cause a lot of drama & controversy which is not what the site or anyone needs.
Another reason is that the Machine Learning tags are filtered & as well hidden by-default and by most users who use Derpibooru meaning less unlikely there too. A lot of Art Sites have been quick to ban AI-Generated Content quick with how much negativity AI Content Has, now I know Derpibooru haven’t but they have pretty much done the equivalent to shadow banning it by hiding the tags by default.
The chances of backlash are too high and too risky, overall..
Ciaran 
Senior Moderator
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Featured images are ostensibly to feature overlooked artists. Although sometimes the image is worth featuring, too. This is why once an artist is featured they are rarely featured again.
Either way, nominated images have to win a popularity vote, so just nominating an image is only the first step to it being featured.
@Lil_VampireCJ
An image that is filtered by the default filter will not be featured.
An image that is filtered by the default filter will not be featured.
And is “shadow ban” really an appropriate term if we posted a site wide announcement about it with a banner on the top of the site, and spent weeks answering questions about it? Its not a secret.
Lil_VampireCJ
Lil_VampireCJ
An image that is filtered by the default filter will not be featured.
I kind of had a thought about that as guests wouldn’t be able to see it! X3
And is “shadow ban” really an appropriate term if we posted a site wide announcement about it with a banner on the top
of the site, and spent weeks answering questions about it? Its not a secret.
I don’t really know, I’m not the best with my words sorry but true its no secret, you can check the default filters.
Zerowinger 
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Either way, nominated images have to win a popularity vote, so just nominating an image is only the first step to it being featured.
Where is this vote held? Among the staff?
Ciaran
Senior Moderator
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@Zerowinger
Yeah. Only volunteers may vote for the featured image. It’s in the assistants only forum. It is really one of the few actual perks of being a volunteer here.
Yeah. Only volunteers may vote for the featured image. It’s in the assistants only forum. It is really one of the few actual perks of being a volunteer here.
[edit - oh, wait, I didn’t know about the
machine learning assisted tag. That isn’t filtered by default, so technically speaking it could be featured.]
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