Based on the general consensus users are leaning towards ensuring that AI posts are marked as such and to limit the amount of them. Adjustments to the sidebar rules will be made stating that AI posts must be labeled in the title as Lemmy does not currently offer a way to provide flair. If we see a significant amount of AI posts then we will reassess banning them from this community.

Yeah restrict AI posts. I think cuteness needs to have some notion of soul behind it to be cute and AI images are just creepy and soulless.

I don't want to gatekeep what is and isn't aww, but I definitely don't appreciate the realization that something fake was slipped in right under my nose without warning. AI may be harder to get good results from than I imagine, but if it's not being presented as exactly what it is upfront, it's naturally going to fool a lot of people into thinking they're seeing an extraordinary image.

Come to think of it, this doesn't just extend to AI. If someone was trying to pass a photo realistic render or heavily Photoshopped pic off as real (and I mean on the level of replacing, grafting and moving parts of multiple images to make something that gets attention for how surprising or special it seems) then I would feel the same way about that. It's about honesty. I want to see all kinds of mediums on here allowed to shine, but not if it's done through obfuscation of the medium used.

And also, AI stuff just skeeves me out. I want to be able to filter it out, or just know that there's a rule against it and another community for that content. There's something deeply human and heartwarming about an "aww" to me, and if it's not real, or at least presents itself honestly in a way I can appreciate the love that went into the craft, it's no longer aww.

As someone that has messed with Stable Diffusion for generating images, this is a non issue. AI images are challenging to prompt well and generate results. Good results are the result of clever prompts and what really amounts to a new form of artistry. The hype over AI is mostly due to mainstream garbage hype media and people that can not distinguish between technology and magic. If anyone opens Stable Diffusion and tries to just write a prompt, the output is usually garbage. If they are super lucky, the first result may work, but it will go downhill from there. Good prompts take practice, research, and lots of extra software tools. It is a skill all its own. If you are going to restrict AI for anything, it should be limiting it to a tag in the title, must include the entire prompt and seed, and the positive prompt must match the image reasonably well. This would limit post submissions to real artistry and it would enable anyone that is interested in this technology to reproduce the results and explore them more.

In my eyes, the question is more if this is even an issue. I mean, if this community gets flooded by AI stuff, it can be forbidden at any time, but as long as there is only the occasional AI post (that makes you go aww), why artificially (hah!) Limit ourselves.

Yes, please restrict

I think it should be restricted. However, if it's decided to be allowed, it should be tagged as AI.

I remember the problem on reddit was people posting needlefelt dolls as real animals and that would piss everyone off. AI can be Aww, but it should be tagged as AI and be removed if not tagged.

I’m not a fan of Ai generated images as straight content, I’m a little more fine with the ChatGPT at work but even then that appears to be a bit of a gray area when it comes to the training data that any AI uses.

I’m gonna have to pass on AI content for the simple worry of the wrong type of content saturation.

You can either go full bonzai and aggressively trim any little branch that pokes out of place to try to keep a meticulously maintained tree at all times, or you can just let the tree grows as it will, and if a branch becomes an obvious issue, then just cut the entire branch and graft it somewhere else.

If I was a mod here, I would do the latter, maybe even setup an /c/AIAww or whatever in anticipation for what might come.
That's probably my laziness speaking.

Is there a way to have them marked as AI like NSFW, or some sort of hashtag? That Way people can easily filter them out if they don't want to see them.

If it's so good that it looks like a real photo I suppose it's a moot point, but if it looks less than real then I would probably downvote that.

Please don't allow AI posts. If we start having AI posts this place will basically turn into a fan art page.

No AI please - it just dilutes and lowers the overall quality of the community. I'd much rather a handful of genuine posts/comments from real people than a flood of hallucinations that range from being utter gibberish to making you question your own sanity.

Maybe comoderate something like c/AiWWW to have a clear 0eperation but if people want they can get over the info a community that is specifically for it

I feel like AI posts in this context are no more harmful than Photoshop. It's not really a community about artistry or appreciating the authenticity of the post.

I would say let them. If people feel deceived by this, but not when someone claims a drawing or picture is theirs when it's not, that's a them problem.

Compromise? Ai art must be tagged so.

There’s a lot of creative ai art out there, is it as impressive as say, a painting? No. But is it still art? Sure. What is “art” anyhow?

AI content should be limited to AI communities. Period.

One per week per user for completely generated images.

Filtering an existing photo is okay, but using multiple filters to post multiple images is not. Only one post per distinct source image.

From how I see it, they're fine as long as they're labelled as AI posts.

It's fine as a concept, but I don't really want my feed of actual aww-worthy images diluted with ai generated pics.

Echoing the sentiment of others, it should be restricted and/or tagged as AI. Preferably it should be limited to AI-specific communities.

I'm cool with AI. I've been having a blast playing with stable diffusion