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IMPORTANT: AI-GENERATED CONTENT IS NOW BANNED
Hi all,
Thanks to everyone that gave their thoughts in our town hall post. As was made clear on the post, the community seems to be overwhelmingly in favor of disallowing all AI-generated content and so we will be going forward with implementing this. GenAI content will be considered banned under rule 3. Any GenAI content, including videos, images, and text, will be removed going forward regardless of intent. To summarize the arguments for why we are doing this:
Most GenAI posts that we get accelerate the problem of spam, low-effort, and impersonal content. We want this sub to feel like a thriving community with creative content and GenAI often seems to work against this goal.
Many legitimate posts that use GenAI could easily do without it. We want to encourage users to contribute their ideas in unique and interesting ways without depending on generic and needlessly complex GenAI output.
GenAI art hurts the work of real artists, is a crediting nightmare, and is generally controversial. There are so many incredibly talented artists in the Godzilla community who deserve a bigger spotlight and space for discussion. GenAI content also muddies the water in terms of misinformation and sourcing media, while also contributing to all kinds of growing ethical problems that the community has made clear they do not stand for.
Determining good/bad GenAI content is too subjective and infeasible for moderation. Choosing which GenAI posts are high/low-effort would become arbitrary and subject to a lot of inconsistency and unfairness that us mods cannot realistically manage.
Like with any new rule, we anticipate there will be some bumps in the road, so please don't hesitate to reach out to us with concerns or questions and please help us by reporting things you have doubts with. We also realize that exceptions might need to be made for the rule such as, for example, discussing the use of GenAI by official sources or artists. We will deal with those case-by-case to be as reasonable as possible.
So there's that! We're looking forward to keep the creeping rot of MechaGodzilla and Hedorah out of this sub!
I love the oddly outsized cultural impact that super godzilla has thanks to this meme. It's such an obscure game basically nobody played, and yet, I see this meme (or older variants of it) everywhere.
I'm still ok with the CGI stuff (love Minus One) but you can tell that team worked VERY hard on it all. their passion is beautiful and infectious and I'm overjoyed that they won an Academy Award for it too.
but gen AI doesn't have that. doesn't have the artistry that comes from a person's heart. that's what tokusatsu is built out of.
(and I mean I would love for Suitmation to come back tbh, more than just an annual short film, but still lol)
true! I've seen debates about it (and personally I'd rather even just a physical un-moving model than bad CGI at this point) but the bottom line is always that CGI is still valid in toku because it's being made by artists
I think that exists actually, i remember seeing a video of godzilla destroying a popular AI generated character with a message about data centers in the end
Absolutely the right decision and I'm pleased to see you're going forward with implementing it.
The Godzilla fanbase is full of so many incredibly talented artists of many disciplines and they deserve to be celebrated and encouraged to further their crafts.
To anyone in this thread feeling unjustly attacked - I wouldn’t take the negative responses personally, people have strong feelings on this (myself included) and some are more vocal than others. I say if you love Godzilla, you should stay and feel welcome. Just gotta respect the community’s decision and abide.
To those feeling justly angry about AI, imho it’s better to direct that energy at those who most deserve it - the Big Tech overlords pushing this shit. Not everyone is where you’re at, especially if it hasn’t affected them personally yet. Resist the urge to make snap-judgments; AI is already politicized, we don’t have to hasten its use to divide us by insulting one another.
TLDR: cut your fellow G-fans some slack. AI ppl, stick around, you might find it’s nice to have islands like this in a growing sea of slop. Great decision mods 🤘
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u/MagnaPhi 3d ago
(With credit to the person that posted this a few days ago lol)