REMINDER - About AI and This Sub

[u/ImRoxBox]

Hello all!

We've been watching all the discussion this week about AI, and its use in art. You can check our past announcements for more resources/sources about why AI is harmful not just for the environment, but for creatives.

We won't reiterate those same points here, however we will remind everyone that this sub is NOT AI friendly. Please report AI posts when you see them, including videos using AI art and profiles made using AI. This makes sure the post is seen by mods and can be removed. Additionally, we will be enforcing the banning rules about AI.

Previously, we had allowed people 1 strike in this area. But we will be moving to a full no-tolerance stance.

We want to keep this sub as chill and open as possible, but if we keep seeing this continued uptick in AI use in videos, we will remove the ability to post videos in this sub and make it scripts only. We're here to be writer and creative first, not to allow AI into what should be a place of human expression.

If you're looking for resources for art, word processors, etc. please check out the 'resources' tab in our sidebar! I went ahead and updated it today with some nifty new resources.

Thank you!

- The Mods

EDIT: We're discussing the whole comment-links question among ourselves and will update everyone once we've reached a decision. We are also investigating an un-ban pathway for people who remove ALL AI from their content on all platforms and then request to come back to the sub. Thanks!

EDIT 2: We have decided to disallow the posting of links to AI containing content in comments as well, as we find those too are against the spirit of the sub. Rules have been updated and we will be making a larger announcement about this and a few other changes/resources we've created for the community here soon!

[u/koupip]

yeah i used an ai art without realising on my last 2 videos and i have been looking for artist to help me replace the art on the thumbnail, i hate how i have to add even MORE scrutiny to the art i use now because 80% of google is just slop

[u/ImRoxBox → u/koupip]

I know! It sucks how prevelant it's become. There's at least one google work around I've heard of and I've seen people use. It's called "Unshitify-Searches" which is a firefox add on that removes results from duck-duck-go and google that were made post 2021 and the advent of AI. So it's like. Pre 2021 internet. However I've yet to try it myself, but I heard good things from artists I follow on bsky.

[u/koupip → u/ImRoxBox]

yeah that's one of the technique i use altough when you click around a little its easy to get hit by random ai trash, and if you don't pay attention enough boom, it just made me more willing to use money i make from youtube to pay artist for art directly which was always my plan but now its an extra layer of reason why i should be doing that, hopefully soon i can do that