u/Flack_Bag

We do not allow AI generated content on this sub except in a few niche cases. Unfortunately, a lot of people here are really bad at and confident in their ability to spot AI generated content.

Keep in mind that general AIs are trained on real humans' work, often without their consent or even knowledge. So of course some people's writing and illustration will look similar to AIs, because the AIs stole it from them. And to add insult to injury, now many people whose work was coopted by these models are being accused of using AIs, thus giving AIs ongoing credit for their stolen work. That's just vile.

We get a lot of known false reports and many more that are likely false, so we are asking that you report content you believe is generated by AIs rather than making public accusations. We'll take a look at it and maybe ask the user some questions to try to figure out whether it's AI or not before making a decision.

It's inevitable that we will be wrong sometimes, but personally, I'd rather err on the side of giving users the benefit of the doubt so that real people aren't being penalized for not being illiterate enough to pass as human or for having a distinctive style. And we don't want this sub to be complicit in accusing innocent people of doing something so dishonest and stupid as passing off AI generated (effectively plagiarized) work as their own.

For some reason, these posts always attract tons of product and brand recommendations, which makes moderation a nightmare. Something about the culture or the industry is just riddled with corporate marketspeak to the point that people don't seem to be able to talk about it without namedropping brands.

We've tried repeatedly to accommodate the topic, and every post about it is riddled with rule reminders. Nothing's worked so far, though, so we'll be removing them on sight, at least for the time being.

>Colorado’s amendment is a blueprint. Senator Ball suggested similar changes for California’s version of this bill.

>That has not happened yet. It still threatens open source developers in the nation’s largest tech market. The same exclusion needs to apply there. Every state considering these copy-paste “protect the children” bills needs to understand: you cannot age-gate software without a centralized authority. Open source fundamentally breaks that model. That is the point.