Banning AI Art

AI should be moderated if not banned. I agree with this.

Was wondering why posts were deleted, totally valid. What about wallpapers with AI generated supplements? For example; hand drawn characters, but some objects in the background (e.g. trees) generated, still no?

Well this is disappointing - I liked a lot of the AI art on here

Some of it is a LOT better than the low-quality screenshots and other crap I see here

Just keep the toggle for those that want it.

(The most recent picture just uploaded is a low-resolution screenshot from 'The Matrix' movie - how is that any way someone creating 'art' ?)

iSuzume said:

Why intentionally cripple your site's popularity? Are we fighting windmills? AI is not going anywhere, and it's getting better every month, and I have no idea how you will know if it's AI-made or not. Who decides that?

I have seen so, so much bad art, screenshots of movies, and games. But are they okay because it's human slop? Why should they stay and AI go? Is it about ethics? People copy each other left and right, but nobody cares. A toggle was good enough, but clearly, people can't even tag properly. Create a system where people could vote for AI art to stay or be removed, so the best could stay.

And why look at the teeth of a free horse? Ads are never the problem; the problem is how site owners never know where to put them. Instead of one picture, there could be an ad. You don't need to go crazy with it, but additional money could be good for the site? No? I'm not an engineer regarding this.

you´re 100% right. But the owner choose to run with his head through the wall instead of creating a solution for everyone on this platform. YES AI is most of the times terrible. Its only sad that this decision was made from a personal grudge against AI.

Bad decission imho, but your website your rules.

OrionSDB said:

While I understand & respect your desire to preserve the spirit of the "old internet" & protect a community of human artists, I think banning AI art outright is a short-sighted move that may ultimately limit the richness of creative expression rather than protect it.

First, AI art is not inherently antithetical to human creativity, it is a tool, much like Photoshop, digital brushes or 3D modeling software once were. Behind every AI generated image is a human making choices: about prompts, composition, curation, iteration & intent. To suggest otherwise is to deny the existence of hybrid creativity, which is where the future of art undeniably lies. You say you want to fight "enshittification," but censoring innovation because it challenges a traditional workflow could just as easily be seen as another form of cultural regression.

Second, banning AI art sends an exclusionary message to a growing wave of digital creatives who are embracing new tools not to replace artistry, but to amplify it. Some of these people are artists who can no longer hold a stylus due to disability. Some are storytellers using visual tools to explore new worlds. Others are experimenting in ways traditional tools simply don't allow. You’re shutting the door on them without distinguishing between spam & sincere expression.

Finally, there’s a practical danger in drawing a hard line here: the definition of “AI art” is already murky. Should it include pieces where AI was used in composition but finished by hand? Or where an AI helped conceptualize a sketch later turned into a painting? The line is blurrier than your policy admits, & enforcement risks being both inconsistent & unjust.

Rather than banning a medium, why not foster curation & transparency? Let users tag, filter, and follow what they want. Build tools to spotlight human created content without erasing everything else. Respect your users by giving them choice, don’t make that choice for them.

In the name of preserving the “old internet,” we should be cautious not to revive its worst tendencies: fear of change, knee-jerk gatekeeping, & elitism masquerading as authenticity.

You don't need to like AI art... but banning it altogether risks alienating people who are using it ethically, creatively & with heart.

Literally nobody cares about the middle school rant you just went on about how sad you are about this development. Go back to diddling yourself to the women you make up on ChatGPT.

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Lexobaal said:

iSuzume said:

Why intentionally cripple your site's popularity? Are we fighting windmills? AI is not going anywhere, and it's getting better every month, and I have no idea how you will know if it's AI-made or not. Who decides that?

I have seen so, so much bad art, screenshots of movies, and games. But are they okay because it's human slop? Why should they stay and AI go? Is it about ethics? People copy each other left and right, but nobody cares. A toggle was good enough, but clearly, people can't even tag properly. Create a system where people could vote for AI art to stay or be removed, so the best could stay.

And why look at the teeth of a free horse? Ads are never the problem; the problem is how site owners never know where to put them. Instead of one picture, there could be an ad. You don't need to go crazy with it, but additional money could be good for the site? No? I'm not an engineer regarding this.

you´re 100% right. But the owner choose to run with his head through the wall instead of creating a solution for everyone on this platform. YES AI is most of the times terrible. Its only sad that this decision was made from a personal grudge against AI.

You're a moron who posts AI generated women and thinks he "makes art". You're the actual lowest example of your species.

PinecamppleX3 said:

OrionSDB said:

While I understand & respect your desire to preserve the spirit of the "old internet" & protect a community of human artists, I think banning AI art outright is a short-sighted move that may ultimately limit the richness of creative expression rather than protect it.

First, AI art is not inherently antithetical to human creativity, it is a tool, much like Photoshop, digital brushes or 3D modeling software once were. Behind every AI generated image is a human making choices: about prompts, composition, curation, iteration & intent. To suggest otherwise is to deny the existence of hybrid creativity, which is where the future of art undeniably lies. You say you want to fight "enshittification," but censoring innovation because it challenges a traditional workflow could just as easily be seen as another form of cultural regression.

Second, banning AI art sends an exclusionary message to a growing wave of digital creatives who are embracing new tools not to replace artistry, but to amplify it. Some of these people are artists who can no longer hold a stylus due to disability. Some are storytellers using visual tools to explore new worlds. Others are experimenting in ways traditional tools simply don't allow. You’re shutting the door on them without distinguishing between spam & sincere expression.

Finally, there’s a practical danger in drawing a hard line here: the definition of “AI art” is already murky. Should it include pieces where AI was used in composition but finished by hand? Or where an AI helped conceptualize a sketch later turned into a painting? The line is blurrier than your policy admits, & enforcement risks being both inconsistent & unjust.

Rather than banning a medium, why not foster curation & transparency? Let users tag, filter, and follow what they want. Build tools to spotlight human created content without erasing everything else. Respect your users by giving them choice, don’t make that choice for them.

In the name of preserving the “old internet,” we should be cautious not to revive its worst tendencies: fear of change, knee-jerk gatekeeping, & elitism masquerading as authenticity.

You don't need to like AI art... but banning it altogether risks alienating people who are using it ethically, creatively & with heart.

Literally nobody cares about the middle school rant you just went on about how sad you are about this development. Go back to diddling yourself to the women you make up on ChatGPT.

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Lexobaal said:

iSuzume said:

Why intentionally cripple your site's popularity? Are we fighting windmills? AI is not going anywhere, and it's getting better every month, and I have no idea how you will know if it's AI-made or not. Who decides that?

I have seen so, so much bad art, screenshots of movies, and games. But are they okay because it's human slop? Why should they stay and AI go? Is it about ethics? People copy each other left and right, but nobody cares. A toggle was good enough, but clearly, people can't even tag properly. Create a system where people could vote for AI art to stay or be removed, so the best could stay.

And why look at the teeth of a free horse? Ads are never the problem; the problem is how site owners never know where to put them. Instead of one picture, there could be an ad. You don't need to go crazy with it, but additional money could be good for the site? No? I'm not an engineer regarding this.

you´re 100% right. But the owner choose to run with his head through the wall instead of creating a solution for everyone on this platform. YES AI is most of the times terrible. Its only sad that this decision was made from a personal grudge against AI.

You're a moron who posts AI generated women and thinks he "makes art". You're the actual lowest example of your species.

Has anyone told you how toxic you are ?

PinecamppleX3 is a butthurt luddite with no reading comprehension / acute ADHD

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OP, it's very ironic you mention platform decay while i am literally bombarded with the tag "femboy" on the front page alongside Wuthering Waves, a game played by sub-60 IQ SEAmonkeys. the fact you didn't put feminine boy under "questionable" or "explicit" shows how little you care about your site which can be accessed by minors and you leave a fetishistic tag available for the public to see.

this is a borderline retarded measure, blacklisting exists for a reason and this one of them, if you don't like it, block it, but no i suppose you are bleeding users (this post only got 5 digits of views in the span of a month, your website is not relevant) so you are trying to cater towards the lowest common denominator who hates AI for absolutely no reason.

you are the goat

Really late to this, but amazing measure, i feel like AI is something that we have to avoid incorporating as "something that just has to happen" when that's not the case at all

As per how the site can be more attractive to artists, a small change i could suggest is adding the artist's @ with the platform in the source of any given wallpaper, it's a small change (i think, i don't know if that would be something easy to add to the website), but i think it could shine a brighter light in the artist rather than the platform

Great news, huge support to this, THANKS Art is Aiphobic

My first reply to anything ever on this site. Just to say thank you for running this place like you do. This is why I upload stuff I create here.

So, in short, people will be forced to post AI stuff without tagging it as AI, and we also won't have the option to filter AI out? That's a weird way to normalize AI art, but OK.

Thank you!!!!

AIGODSwon said:

PinecamppleX3 is a butthurt luddite with no reading comprehension / acute ADHD

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OP, it's very ironic you mention platform decay while i am literally bombarded with the tag "femboy" on the front page alongside Wuthering Waves, a game played by sub-60 IQ SEAmonkeys. the fact you didn't put feminine boy under "questionable" or "explicit" shows how little you care about your site which can be accessed by minors and you leave a fetishistic tag available for the public to see.

this is a borderline retarded measure, blacklisting exists for a reason and this one of them, if you don't like it, block it, but no i suppose you are bleeding users (this post only got 5 digits of views in the span of a month, your website is not relevant) so you are trying to cater towards the lowest common denominator who hates AI for absolutely no reason.

This dude called me butthurt and then unironically typed this out, hit send and thought he sounded cool. He's all the proof you need that AI dudes are inbred, low IQ chimps.

The dude created an account six days ago just to bitch and moan about this. Absolutely peak comedy.

is there an option to 1-click download my AI art collection here? i dont want to download every single pic on its own before they get removed

YUYU said:

is there an option to 1-click download my AI art collection here? i dont want to download every single pic on its own before they get removed

Nothing official afaik but this thread lists a downloader app that i used like half a year ago to play around with, still worked back then https://wallhaven.cc/forums/thread/2410

I stand with this decision. Thank you very much.

Notege said:

YUYU said:

is there an option to 1-click download my AI art collection here? i dont want to download every single pic on its own before they get removed

Nothing official afaik but this thread lists a downloader app that i used like half a year ago to play around with, still worked back then https://wallhaven.cc/forums/thread/2410

thank you! i'll check it out