Moderator Rule Opinion: AI Generated Images—Yay or Nay?
There is a lot of controversy about the existence of AI generated images. Of course, this subreddit can’t effectively moderate AI-written works, but AI-generated images are very quick and easy to spot. AI-generated content is known to steal from other people’s content and can also negatively impact our own unique creativity as authors (source: https://arxiv.org/html/2506.18706).
Instead of making a sudden rule about AI-generated images, I’d like to get people’s opinions first. We are writers and authors, and our work is centered around recognizing our own unique strengths and individual creativity.
This subreddit exists to motivate writers to interact with each-other and to learn real writing tactics through feedback. This subreddit simultaneously wants to help protect other original creative works from being stolen.
For the reasons above, along with environmental considerations, should this subreddit ban AI-generated images?