I get why people don’t like it, but when I scroll lemmy and see a post which looks like it has a decent level of engagements I’m finding an endless stream of replies that are always the same.
“Is this ai?” “Looks like it might be ai” “Ai slop” “This is ai, look at the [feature]”
Communities should set a rule to allow ai or not. Allowing ai but it must be declared could be a decent approach.
If there isn’t a rule in the community that prohibits ai, I really wish people would cool it.
Even only a few months ago this would be a reasonable demand, but AI image generation is getting better, faster and faster. Ask any moderator or anyone who has seriously discussed HOW to single out what is and isn’t AI created. Usually the consensus is the best anyone can do is ask for reports of suspicion and voluntary marking by the poster. Sure, some of the inferior is obvious, but a tag or ban should be thorough and not miss any, right? Otherwise such efforts are only catching the low fruit and letting the better AI pass because of ignorance. So rather than say “just tag/ban it”, explain how one does that without sliding into the trap that those who wanted to ban porn did with the “I’ll know it when I see it”. What is a solid universal indication of AI images?
I don’t think the objectors in this thread understand the point of the post. AI isn’t the topic, the constant claims of AI slop to anything someone doesn’t like is. Be nice if there was a “No AI material” button to apply, but it is not that easy to do, even when things are “obvious”.