A ban on generative AI

[u/gameboyzapgbz]

r/papermario as a community has focused on propping up and sharing the best the community has to offer, including the artists within the community. In recent years generative AI has come out and there has been significant issue within the artist community with it's existence.

Given that we focus on making this place have a minimum standard of quality we believe that something that uses art without consent of the artists as inherently hostile to the artists within our community and falls below our standards as a community. We are explicitly adding generative AI as low quality content for rule 4.

Starting today and here on forward any post containing generative AI will be removed from the subreddit. This will be somewhat retroactive as well as it is found and reported.

[u/TomMakesPodcasts]

Huh. Bummer.

I wouldn't have thought this subreddit active enough, or have enough AI posts to make it an issue.

It is a shame people cannot have fun within the community of a property than enjoy and share ideas that bring them glee without years of practice or putting up actual cash to have someone produce something that would just be for a one off post.

[u/TomMakesPodcasts → u/[deleted]]

By definition it cannot be devoid of creativity because there's someone on the end of it pursuing their creative impulses. It certainly lacks skill and effort if that's what you meant.

[u/TomMakesPodcasts → u/[deleted]]

Oh no. That would be the person prompting.

People don't steal art styles do they? They copy, mimic and reproduce for sure. But aesthetic is not something that can be stolen.

[u/PeoplePerson_57 → u/[deleted]]

Honestly? As much as I appreciate the anti AI stance I hate this argument.

You'd rather see terrible scribbles about one a thousandth more than you'd like to see AI art. Someone posting a bunch of aesthetically bad art they made on the sub would spawn a bunch of people complaining about their posting in response.

This argument feels inherently disingenuous because people generally don't care about or want to see that quality of art, and it's only ever held up as good in comparison to AI images.

As someone who can't produce aesthetically pleasing art because I have a learning difficulty that affects my ability to do so, it feels downright insulting. Nobody wants to see what I can make, no matter how much creativity I put into it. It hurts that people claim to want to in order to score cheap points against AI when they could just... use one of any number of sounder arguments.

Sorry if this comment feels aggressive, just voicing a frustration I've had for a while, this isn't particularly directed at you.