Policy update regarding AI content

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Frankly, I’m more concerned about bad actors uploading AI generations and tagging them as ai composition putting the onus on everyone else to report quality issues, or as ai assisted and then arguing against anyone who claims they’re AI generations at all.
I’ll remain vigilant, but if people were willing to skirt AI-related rules before, then they’re willing to skirt AI-related rules now.
Also, can the AI quality guidelines be added as a link to the “Site Resources” section at the bottom of Derpi? It should be easy to find like the Rules.
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Based decision, thank you Derpibooru. I’ve seen what happens when sites like DeviantArt fully embrace AI, it just results in actual human art being drowned out by an endless sea of slop.
For every decent AI pic there is like 10 more poorly generated ones, so limiting the upload quality to one a day and enforcing higher quality standards is the way to go.
I am gonna miss my Twi-bomination though XD
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Also in regards to the “One AI pic a day” rule, is it a calendar day, or just 24 hours after the last pic?
So say you posted an AI pic at 7PM, do you need to wait till 7PM the next day to upload one, or can it be uploaded at an earlier time like 4PM next day?
What is the point of this if you have new tags for AI?
You have People who Do put Ai on top of their work and AI completely just completely redoes the rendition of their composition to where everything is warped and such low quality. Like seriously what is the point of this if you’re not sending all of ai users over to tantibus?
If anything this comes off as a Moderation thing? Hey we can’t cover doing this?
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Per the server seems the easiest way to figure it. ‘created_at.eq:today’s date’ kind of search is what I use. “Per 24 hours” gets tricky if you upload today at 6 pm and tomorrow at 5pm all of a sudden you broke a rule. You end up having to wait one minute longer each day or people report you.
This is an international site, and we’ve got people uploading to it from all over the planet. So having everything be normal and EU based won’t work - so when we look at people uploading what might be ‘too many images’ we do have to figure out if it’s a one time thing, like they uploaded 2 minutes early today, or if it’s someone doing a either a bunch in one go or ‘too many over time’.
Like I’ll even go as far as Hey, You know you want to draw from AI? And have AI interpretation,
Thats okay as long as it’s your own hard work.
I don’t understand why y’all are just destroying the intended purpose of this site and just having artist’s flee from it.
And I don’t understand why it’s called tantibus and not DerpAibooru
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I’d like to remind this little point in the OP (now in the middle given the extra stuff that had to be added after… but still there):
Please limit any discussion to questions about precise policy points or requests for clarification. This thread is not to be used for general talk about AI, neither technical or ethical.
While interesting, the topic of “AI” is very broad and we don’t want this to be an “AI General Discussion” thread.
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Like I’ll even go as far as Hey, You know you want to draw from AI? And have AI interpretation, Thats okay as long as it’s your own hard work.
That is fine. ai interpretation is the tag you are looking for. Those images are not affected by this.
I don’t understand why y’all are just destroying the intended purpose of this site and just having artist’s flee from it.
We are, in fact, doing this to support artists. If that is not clear, please re-read the first post.
This will probably be confusing in a way. What if the image in question that’s uploaded was made with both, ai and not in the same image?
Please read the definitions on the tags themselves. Hopefully that will help you. The tags are listed in the first post. If that doesn’t help, please either come to support or send me a PM with an example of an image you’re wondering about.
It seems kinda pointless to abolish ai, but then Keep AI assist, when they have the same about of errors, No?
I can go right now over to the tag and find issues over in ai assist that the frowning pony is already bringing up with regular ai that they are mentioning. what is the point of doing this if not all of ai is being transferred over?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to have a Ai based platform if people are supportive of ai?
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It seems kinda pointless to abolish ai, but then Keep AI assist, when they have the same about of errors, No?
That is not how it works.
Any image tagged ai assisted that has raw generation errors or artifacts is deleted, and the person who tagged it as ai assisted gets a warning or banned.
I can go right now over to the tag and find issues over in ai assist
Report them. Or send me a PM with a list of some examples.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to have a Ai based platform if people are supportive of ai?
What do you think tantabus.ai is, if not exactly what you just described?
Background Pony #047D
We are, in fact, doing this to support artists. If that is not clear, please re-read the first post.
The first post- and your own comments- makes it pretty clear you’re doing this because you can’t moderate the spam, and are also unwilling or unable to distinguish between that spam and the AI artists I come here for.
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@Background Pony #047D
If we are spending most of our time dealing with people using AI tools then we aren’t helping artists. So we aren’t going to help people uploading raw AI gens any more.
Thus we can help artists instead.
are also unwilling or unable to distinguish between that spam and the AI artists I come here for.
Please do not believe for even a second that I am spending any time trying to distinguish between spam and the AI creators you came here for. You liking it isn’t a metric that I’m working to.
“that is not how it works.
Any image tagged ai assisted that has raw generation errors or artifacts is deleted, and the person who tagged it as ai assisted gets a warning or banned.”
Forgive me, But the guidelines pointed out a very specific list? (Bad facial features) for example.
How is exactly okay to pull these, but ignore like AI assisted eyes that are clearly disfigured or warped?
Clearly this seems like moderation is picking and choosing on what is reasonable and what is not based upon the character or content, No?
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ai assisted is for minor use of AI, like to add some background element or fill in colours. It also covers the sort of stuff Photoshop and other art programs have had built in for well over a decade that were always “AI” but just never called that.
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IMO the amount of upvotes something has should not be used as a metric for quality, regardless of AI usage. By that logic, a hidden gem containing a less popular background character/made by an unknown artist is lower quality than a mediocre image containing a very popular character/made by a very popular artist. At best, it’s a metric for how many people were looking for the same thing which is not exactly synonymous with art quality.
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