Banning AI Art

The taxpayer will be most likely forced to pay when the AI gold rush goes bust. Just like with General Motors and the bank bailouts. We lose every time, its so depressing.

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Is there any way to archive/protect and guarantee integrity of the upload datetime of images? That is probably the best way to keep track of what is and isn't potentially AI based on the when it was uploaded.

IE everything uploaded today is suspect, everything 5 years ago safe.

FYI my opinion is that in the context of background wallpapers AI art is good (copyright issues aside, I will not enter into moral debate here) but we should have a way to tag it.

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It doesn't matter for this rule, all AI art will soon be removed, regardless of the date uploaded.

viddlenchaire said:

Firstly I respect the decision. I am just a humble user of this site. I don't know my opinion is relevant or not, and i really don't want to complain, but I feel some disturbance in the Force. From 1.2M pics what the site shows, there are only 30k tagged as AI, and i think some of it has real values. At least, not in a less rate than in the non-AI content. It seems to me this is an absolutely minor problem, rather it's not a problem at all, or at least the site is handling it already perfectly. So why it must be banned? AI is just another brush in creators hand, if a picture isnt good, that is always the problem of the creator, not the tool. If you really want lure artists to come here, i think it would be better to deal with the fact, at least 50% of the site content is brainless soft porn, basically most of them are the same picture but with another woman. I use this site to inspire myself. When i browse the precious Random to collect ideas, i see much more nearly identical pornographic content than valuable art. well, it isn't a problem to me, we can hide NSFW content too (well, i will not, i am a man of culture as well :D), but if i dont want to see, i can hide AI too, I don't really understand why it is better if you're simply denying already filterable content, and not let the user decide if they want to see it or not, like how it is works nowadays absolute perfectly. So I feel this decision causeless. Well, it isnt much of a loss, and I can't see what you can see operating the site, so as i said, i don't want to complain, i just really don't understand, why is it necessary. I rather miss a rating system to let the audience to judge and evaluate the content, so that would be my idea instead of this simple censorship. Pls don't ban me, i just want to help to make the site better, well, even if it's perfect already.

Very good observation, completely agree with this take.

the thing about gAI being "another brush in a creators hand "is super dumb cuz every single time somebody calls themselves an artist but then says they use gAI it turns out they ONLY ever use gAI. it subsumes all other methods of use. and all of that for the most mediocre images of big-breasted ladies they couldve found via google instead of wasting resources. yall should honestly just ban the ai art tags as a whole imo.

PeriLFlamme said:

the thing about gAI being "another brush in a creators hand "is super dumb cuz every single time somebody calls themselves an artist but then says they use gAI it turns out they ONLY ever use gAI. it subsumes all other methods of use. and all of that for the most mediocre images of big-breasted ladies they couldve found via google instead of wasting resources. yall should honestly just ban the ai art tags as a whole imo.

There is a difference between a "artist" and a "creator" and you are right they could've googled instead but gAI is really good for creating specifics/custom stuff and yeah there is this debate about AI consuming more or less resources but that's for a different thread/site.

very good！

Good rule!!

YES! YES! YES!

This must happen.

Good

Totally agree with this decision!

11 months late to this, however, in these 11 months I stumbled upon plenty of AI generations, since this is a global community effort, I'll be more vigilant and use programs to identify AI drivel in order to successfully eradicate it from this website.

AI should be used to further humanity's progress, not dilute it or thwart it. Art is none of its business. Only profiteers claim otherwise.

I'm late but this is awesome!

Super late to the party - I only just discovered this site recently. But I signed up and became a member specifically because I saw the announcement from 11 months ago. I just don't understand why anyone would believe that a system that that consumes gigawatts of power and all the fresh water it can drink and turns it into the the most mid graphics and writing is some kind of revolutionary advance. Sure, large language models can do some neat things, but this mad dash to shove it into every nook and cranny reminds me of the dot-com boom (and bust) of the early 2000's. Some folks never learn, I guess...

I'm starting to see a kind of movement out here in online spaces, a turning away from Big Tech's version of how everything should go, and it makes me happy to see Wallhaven has decided to become part of it. Nice one!

It would be cool if you leave the option to togle AI Art visible or not, other sites have this filter and it works pretty well, some people still enjoying AI art and I don't really see the issue of having that kind of items here, you could make by default all AI Art is hidden and users interested on this topic can just togle this option to see that kind of pictures. I also understand your concern about all this AI thing and I understand not all the people like it, personally I have been using it as a tool to learn drawing (I pretty much use it to generate references to practice so I don't mess up with intellectual property).

At the end is your site and we have to adapt to the new rules, but I hope in the future we have more options to see and share this kind of stuff, you could even create a separeted site for AI only so you don't have to mix AI with actual art.

It's a bit counterintuitive to ban people who do AI illustrations when there are other solutions! Look at the Pixiv website. It has a general section for everyone and a section for artists where they can sell their illustrations, and AI is prohibited there... there's no need to ban users who use AI. Why don't artists use copyrighted characters on this site? They should be banned too. Only artists who create their own art should remain!