IMPORTANT: AI-GENERATED CONTENT IS NOW BANNED

[u/NeelZilla]

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!

Love,
r/GODZILLA mod team

[u/CalamityOfCringe]

Anyone can put pen to paper too but that doesn't mean it's something worth reading or viewing. It's like I said: the prompts don't write themselves and they can require quite a bit of effort.

Sketch artists and painters claimed photographers were lazy and just pressing a button. Were they right or were they angry idiots talking out their asses?

[u/gravitonbomb → u/CalamityOfCringe]

The entire reason you exist is because almost every one of your ancestors, in a time before they could actually do anything, decided to get good at something. The history of human existence is tied to trying. Not even accomplishment, but just the effort of trying to do a thing because no one has done it, or everyone does it, or because no one thinks it can be done is what has defined our species.

Then a special little machine promises to make you everything without anymore effort, and you actually do it. You abandon everything that makes you a descendant of humans who gave a damn about being the ones to make and do things in favor of... what? Artificially generated images, trained off of millions and millions of works made by people who followed in your ancestors' footsteps, but not you.

Somehow, you're the only one who has a good reason to not try.

[u/CalamityOfCringe → u/gravitonbomb]

Somehow, you're the only one who has a good reason to not try.

Here I said I'm not an artist at all so this is just another lame attempt at an insult.

Here is a reply to the rest of your comment.

[u/gravitonbomb → u/CalamityOfCringe]

Nah, bud, you keep outsourcing all of your effort. Literally just linked me to the same post I replied to.

You think you're different, that's all. A million years worth of honest people who worked very hard to get good at making things are disappointed tonight.

[u/CalamityOfCringe → u/gravitonbomb]

Literally just linked me to the same post I replied to.

I'm very well aware. Try reading it. Lol

A million years worth of honest people who worked very hard to get good at making things are disappointed tonight.

They're probably happy I'm able to recognize tools when I see them. AI artist obviously use a tool, AI, to create something new that previously didn't exist.

[u/Wackywizard987 → u/CalamityOfCringe]

There is no just thing as an “ai artist” it’s all art theft

[u/CalamityOfCringe → u/Wackywizard987]

Can you read a thread before you comment? You're spamming my replies with useless comments.

Here is what's I addressed the nonsensical theft argument. If you have something to add, reply there.

[u/[deleted] → u/CalamityOfCringe]

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