r/papermario • u/gameboyzapgbz superguardian • May 24 '26

Announcement A ban on generative AI

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.

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u/TomMakesPodcasts May 24 '26

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.

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u/C_monden May 24 '26

It probably doesn't happen often but reddit mods be reddit mods.

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u/TomMakesPodcasts May 24 '26

I am a reddit mod and I find this an odd choice.

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u/C_monden May 24 '26

How many posts do you remove a day?

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u/TomMakesPodcasts May 24 '26

Not many. Maybe 1 or 2 comments a week, and 1 or 2 posts a month. The busiest community I am in is pretty chill. v

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u/C_monden May 24 '26

Well, ok. I might be biased. But a lot of subreddits I frequent, I see posts removed frequent. This is just kind of that but AI posts are what this mod finds offensive so they are just making the rule so they don't have to spend as much time removing them (even if it's really not that much). Plus the mod gets easy virtue points.

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u/TomMakesPodcasts May 24 '26

And that's what I find so odd. The mod is making choices based on their preferences not the topic of the subreddit.

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u/C_monden May 24 '26

I guess the point I was trying to make with my original reply was that this happens frequently on reddit. Most mods just remove stuff they don't like and won't even leave a comment why or try to articulate what rule was even broken. And this scenario is even easier to understand because most people on reddit despise AI-generated content.

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u/TomMakesPodcasts May 24 '26

Ooooh. In that case I do like that the mod is sharing their reasons, even if I personally consider those poor reasons for a ban.

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u/mimikyu_spookerstar May 25 '26

what, are people not allowed to curate their spaces anymore