New AI Policy

1. Does the intentionality behind the prompt really matter? If a “happy accident” and deliberate fishing for surrealism have the same outcome, what impact do outside circumstances have?
2. The way your answer is worded implies the policy only applies to new ML images. Correct?

That’s why I love it. The failures are more interesting than the successes.

1. Intentionality of upload, perhaps; there’s too much that gets uploaded that’s cronenbergs with perfect DDs, and the tits or whatever are all the uploader cared about
2. The older abominations should be fine, “learning process” and initial hilarity of the stuff. There were bouts of spam, especially during the April fools’ event, that’ll get whittled down (for example, someone dumped 150ish “this pony does not exist” images with zero curation and loads of aberrations just to farm points for NLR, and several streaks of really bad SD “x pony standing” from others that look like half-melted ice cream)

@Ciaran
Imgur is no longer a valid option for long-term image hosting.

1. >>2947191 absolutely would just be artist:*. Personally I believe the inclusion of the ai generated image in the actual upload is incidental for tagging, but I can see that example becoming a bit of a tagging battle ground sometime in the future. That’s a good example for more discussion about when included images HAVE to be tagged. If the artist tagged this as ai assisted then it wouldn’t be incorrect, and might help avoid drama.
2. >>3037969 Same as 1.
3. >>3068561 I think ai assisted is right for this image. As is the presence of an artist:* tag. If the artist (you) didn’t tag it as such, then there probably will be some people finding it who do not want to see even ai generated backgrounds, resulting in needless drama, REEEs, and etc.

THIS UPDATE IS IMPORTANT!

4. >>3117630 This is ai assisted. The amount of inpainting required to get this result would take hours, and should ALSO have an artist:* tag. In this regard, this image will be treated on this site as ‘a uniquely copyrightable work of art’. It will be subject to Rule #1, can be taken down by the artist, is subject to DNPs, and can earn both the artist and the uploader badges. We understand this will not perfectly match legal statutes around the planet, but we want to respect human artists putting this much energy and time into their works. And with this image, the tools are ‘assistants’, and the artist is key.

what’s the filter syntax for hiding tags with variables? I want to kill every prompter: (whoever) tag alongside every other garbage AI image.

|| prompter:*

(prompter:*)

(ai content)

Also anything with a prompter: tag should imply ai content and ai generated.

Good point. None of them currently do, but maybe they should.

@R-tex1241
It’s also to encourage people to learn and work on more involved forms of using AI tools, such as using base sketches/photos/renders, extensive in/outpainting, and external editing, which results in the image being “something a person made with help from AI tools”, i.e. “ai assisted” + artist tag.

I’m struggling with the Rule 3 changes though. As weird as AI mistakes can be, it doesn’t sit well with me that AI is held to a higher standard than other images.

If you’re just trying to avoid floods of low-quality AI images, shouldn’t the upload limit mostly handle that?

Plus, I never felt like we only kept the “best of the best” screencaps when stuff like this exists.

(picture of a screen, screencap)

Also, having “-ai generated” in trending images is kinda annoying when I already have that filtered.

Difference between AI Generated and AI Assisted

These tags are exclusive to each other. AI Generated images have been created by an AI / Machine Learning Algorithm and have no editing, or only minor editing, such as fixing small errors like removing extra nostrils.

AI Assisted images use AI as a part of the creative process combined with significant human artistic input. This can mean things like using AI models to apply colours to hand-drawn lineart, using AI generated imagery for background elements, or adding AI voices to a human-created animation. AI Assisted also applies to images that originate as AI Generated, but have been extensively edited by a human by means such as heavy inpainting, manually painting over, tracing the artist’s own lineart, and/or combining elements from different AI generated images; essentially, where hours of manual work have been put into creating the image, rather than just hitting “generate” until the AI creates something “good enough”.