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Poll results: Do you think the current policy is where it needs to be?

The current policy is where it needs to be
40.51% 64 votes
The current policy did not go far enough
29.11% 46 votes
The current policy has gone too far
25.32% 40 votes
Something else? (Mention it below)
5.06% 8 votes

Poll ended with 158 votes.

Background Pony #CD82
Considering the imposed upload limitations, it hasn’t changed much.
Well, better for it to hold steady than increase, I guess. Personally I’d rather it start dropping, but I doubt that’ll happen anytime soon.
I appreciate the update.
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Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice

IRL 🎠 stallion
@JP
I hope it gets implemented soon. It legitimately feels like the percentage of clop on my watched list that’s AI-made has been over 50% for the past two months. It would be nice to play around with various search strings to see if any specific tag is particularly heavy with AI. SFW art on my watched list has been in line with that graph, probably topping out at no more than 10% most days.
Shimauma
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
Wallet After Summer Sale -
Not a Llama - Happy April Fools Day!

Ran some numbers, based on the ai generated tag. A pronounced uptick in ai uploads over the summer.
ai generated / total uploads
jan – 1466 / 18262 8.0%, 47 per day
feb – 1414 / 19732 7.2%, 49 per day
mar – 1426 / 19758 7.2%, 46 per day
apr – 1350 / 19862 6.8%, 45 per day
may – 1562 / 18551 8.4%, 50 per day
jun – 1824 / 17613 10.4%, 61 per day
jul – 2059 / 17933 11.5%, 66 per day
aug – 2143 / 20130 10.6%, 69 per day, nice (not!)
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Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice

IRL 🎠 stallion
@Shimauma
Your stats really make me wish doing such queries was easier to automate. I swear that the porn in my watched list has been nearly 100% computer-generated horse pussy, but there’s still plenty of SFW art drawn by humans. Is this just a statistical artifact of the tags I follow, or a real dearth of human-made clop?
The Smiling Pony
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Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
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Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
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There will be an update to the rules this month, supposing another truck doesn’t wipe a critical staff member out.
I’m sure everyone will be mad, anyway, but just to say that “something” is happening. No I won’t talk about it further, no sense in it.
LemonDrop
Duckinator - Same nonsensical quacks in every pond
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Lunar Guardian - Earned a place among the ranks of the most loyal New Lunar Republic soldiers (April Fools 2023).
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
Ten years of changes - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of MLP:FiM!
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

C++ Crazed
@Parallel Black
I wouldn’t be surprised if younger people used AI disproportionately more so that probably is the case to some degree.
Part of that is likely because if they don’t have any drawing skills yet then that’s one way to do things if they want to show off their characters (I mean just look at all the Pony Town or ponycreator uploads people have done in the past which are tools for people in a similar way).
Part of it could also be though that younger generations are always more open to new ideas and whatnot and more willing to pick up such things vs say someone in their 30s who is already skilled at one method of producing art and less willing to change.
After all I don’t think anyone would be surprised to find that say most computer users in general are younger people (well maybe not quite as much these days with how widespread tech is, but certainly in the earlier days of the internet when it was a newer thing). That’s just how it be.
Beyond that there may be some inverse factor though, like yeah AI stuff rose in that period but the number of images total seemed to drop month to month other than in August, so perhaps some factor also caused fewer artists to upload things in general. Maybe a lot of artists are actually people in education (like college) and summer break is not free time but rather time they have to spend working another job. Who knows.
tyto4tme4l

Something of an artist
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I think it’s just that there are more and more AI-generated NSFW images being uploaded and the number of human-made ones is the same or less.
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Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice

IRL 🎠 stallion
@tyto4tme4l
Your hypothesis is sensible. I just wish it were easier to obtain the numbers to test it. It could even vary with the genre of NSFW art—I have most anthro, EqG, and SFM filtered out on my watched page. Perhaps those have less AI predominance.
Background Pony #BF44
@LemonDrop
Not that this distinction matters that much, but I typically see older people using and supporting AI artwork online. Younger audiences, especially those involved in fandom, are typically involved with fan-created media in their communities to where they understand that creating any creative work with AI would be frowned upon by their peers.
However, they tend to make a exception for allowing the use of AI if they find the product funny. Shitty AI songs with weird lyrics and the like. Just a random observation.
LemonDrop
Duckinator - Same nonsensical quacks in every pond
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Lunar Guardian - Earned a place among the ranks of the most loyal New Lunar Republic soldiers (April Fools 2023).
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
Ten years of changes - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of MLP:FiM!
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition

C++ Crazed
@Background Pony #BF44
Ye I mean I don’t have any data on it either but based on this random polling it seems to confirm what I think broadly at least, younger people tend to think more positively of such technologies: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1466969/opinion-ai-impact-on-their-lives-us-by-age/
Same here: https://www.barna.com/research/generations-ai/
Though on this one it’s interesting that there is a slight bump for millennials in some spots, perhaps due to being more familiar with technology compared to Gen Z in some ways and thus perhaps a bit better able to appreciate the technology (Gen Z grew up with technology more but the heavy dominance of smartphones often leads that generation to actually know less about more “traditional” computer stuff).
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Magnificent Metadata Maniac - #1 Assistant
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Magical Inkwell - Wrote MLP fanfiction consisting of at least around 1.5k words, and has a verified link to the platform of their choice

IRL 🎠 stallion
What are the odds that some of the early days jank videos from Hailuo AI or Luma misfires would be removed for low-quality vs. preserved as a historic curiosity?
That Luma example, in particular, seems janky enough to earn a machine learning abomination tag (what I’ve played around with in Hailuo has been less derpy but also pretty boring: mostly just characters standing or walking while their mouth make the talking animation).
Background Pony #1F4D
Has to be more then 10% if you exclude screenshots of the show, whenever I open the frontpage its half AI spoiler tags by now.
But last time I pointed this out I got a 3 day ban so whatever, Derpibooru wants to be Deviantart for horses it can be
Background Pony #1F4D
@Ciaran
oh right it was
complaining that images they haven’t reported haven’t been deleted.
Because I pointed out that a shitload of the Aislop on here very obviously is created with custom AIs trained on very specific artists that anyone with two eyes could see. All while the rules supposedly dont allow this. I wasnt aware Im not allowed to complain about the site not adhering to its own standards if i dont do the work for moderation.
Ciaran
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Cutest Little Devil - Celebrated the 14th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Rainbow Rocks 10th Anniversary: Sonata Dusk - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of EQG Rainbow Rocks!
Celestial Glory - Helped others get their OC into the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Guardian - Earned a place among the ranks of the most loyal New Lunar Republic soldiers (April Fools 2023).
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.

Senior Moderator
君場森生きる
oh right it was
complaining that images they haven’t reported haven’t been deleted.
You were not banned for your comment - we just deleted the comment and asked you to stop making up shit to complain about that never happened.
So please STOP MAKING UP SHIT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT that never happened. Go be a pretend victim of things no one ever did to you somewhere else.
Here’s a deal - you have 1 day to report any of the images that you are still whinging on about. If you don’t, then I’ll give you a 3 day ban for continuing to create artificial drama about shit that never happened. That way you won’t be lying any more, because you will have been banned for 3 days. But not for the reasons you claim.
I’m not kidding - I’m looking forward to some absolutely 100% valid delete on sight Rule #1 using ai to emulate artist's styles images. Hit me with your best shot, please. I’ve only deleted a few of those this month so far and would like to make it an even 20 by Monday.
Background Pony #1F4D
@Ciaran
>Do my job or I ban you
great show pal. Just ban me now then, but with that attitude it wont be long before Smiling replaces you with an algorythm aswell. Dudes probably looking forward to that. But here took me 5 minutes after taking a shit: https://derpibooru.org/images/3316472?q=ai+content%2C+oc%3Alittlepip
and another one
https://derpibooru.org/images/3211249?q=prompter%3Anowiveawoken
and another one
https://derpibooru.org/images/3431844?q=ai+content%2C+luna%2C+safe
Some of many LORAs trained on Assasin Monkeys stuff. Again took me the same time it took you to eat your cheetos.
Fuckign Equestria Daily admidts that LORAs exist and are sued, but then they dont promote AI art https://www.equestriadaily.com/2024/03/the-ai-warnings-continue-new-loras.html
The Smiling Pony
Cutest Little Devil - Celebrated the 14th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Rainbow Rocks 10th Anniversary: Sonata Dusk - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of EQG Rainbow Rocks!
Celestial Glory - Helped others get their OC into the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Nightmare in the Moon - Had their OC in the 2024 Derpibooru Collab.
Pixel Perfection - I still call her Lightning Bolt
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Hero - Went above and beyond for the Solar Deity, drawing from the power of the sun itself to bring balance to the fight against the Lunar Insurrection (April Fools 2023).
Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.

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@Background Pony #1F4D
Are you really so maladjusted that you think staff are checking every upload and every comment on the site? Why do you think the site has “Report” buttons on everything? How many hours of their life do you think a staff member dedicates to “policing” the site each day?
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