Drama that deepens prejudice.

People insist it's low-quality. And if it's good, then it's robbing artists. And if you've never commissioned an artist in your life, then it's anti-environmental. And if running it locally barely warmed your video card, then it's theft. And if you'd otherwise borrow images from online... then shut up. Shut up is why it's bad.

I'd understand marking it, because some people still don't recognize it. But when they do they try to un-feel whatever reaction they just had. Oh that clever idea was illustrated by a robot? Then it means nothing, lacks intent, isn't art, fnord fnord etc. The minature version of tearing posters off your wall, insisting you never liked your favorite band.

Folks, the robot that draws anything isn't going anywhere. Make your peace. The software is aggressively available for local use, apparently simple enough that tech-bro douchebags can figure it out, and most damningly, was immediately adopted for pornography. It could at worst be chased underground... but it won't be. You will see people make things with this tech, when they otherwise couldn't, and at some point your distaste has to end.

Preemptively banning an entire class of tool like that is ridiculous, IMO. Especially before there's even whatever ill-defined "problem" you're imagining.

I make a lot of use of AI tools in the course of prepping and running adventures. With the advent of generative AI I've been able to produce adventures of far higher quality and depth than I was able to make previously. Dozens of pieces of custom art, high quality battle maps rather than just lines on a grid, custom theme music and songs. I record each session and have an AI transcribe it and then another AI automatically generates detailed notes from the transcript for the players. Every session I post a 4-minute AI-generated "last time, on FaceDeer's D&D campaign..." video summarizing the previous adventure for players to watch if they feel like they can't remember what happened.

I don't know what you're imagining, but how is any of this a "problem"? Both my players and I love this.

AI is just a tool. if some have a philosophical or moral problem with it then they can abstain.

AI not going away, and its use will only increase. so I'm the long term it will either have to be allowed, or this sub will fade into obsolescence.

I see no value in banning it.

Just be careful with your definition. Here's some things that are "generative AI":

• Speech recognition
• Zillions of AI tools in photo editors (e.g. "remove background" or tools that let you mask subjects). Yes, all generative AI.
• All sorts of title/logo generators.
• Upscaling tools.

Think about the reason why you want to ban generative AI: Is it because it sucks? Or because you have something against training AI models with images posted publicly to the Internet? Is it the environmental impact of data centers?

Be clear in your ban statement as to your reasoning so it doesn't seem arbitrary and capricious.

If you ban it. It feeds until the delusion that they're persecuted.

I think the right move is always allowing it, but requiring a tag [ai] so it's obvious.

If people don't like it, they can down vote it. Or block accounts that always post it.

If the people posting it don't want down votes, they can post to one of many explicitly pro-ai coms where mods ban people for down voting.

The only issue may be the ai fans are probably going to build bots to upvote anything tagged as AI. They tend to be weird and really care about votes.