Announcing Rule 6: Protect Creativity

After listening to your feedback and discussing it amongst ourselves, your mod team has decided to implement a new rule.

Generative-AI content will not be welcome in our community moving forward.

Images rendered with Generative-AI are not welcome to be shared here.

Text/“copy” that has been generated by AI/LLMs is not welcome to be shared here.

Products that have used Generative-AI in their creation and those that use it in their ongoing baseline operations are not welcome to be shared here. Discussing these products is not in violation of this rule, but advertising for them, is.

Not all machine learning or the adjacent technologies are the AI we are worried about. For many on both sides, that is a tough pill.

You know we don’t mean the upscaling in your phone’s camera app. You know we don’t mean you can never use spell-checkers. You know we don’t wanna see your chat history with your LLM. You get the idea.

People will never perfectly get the names right, we aren’t all computer scientists, and we don’t have to be. The point is, if you have to wonder if your submission is skirting our rules, it probably is.

You are welcome to reach out to the mod team and ask first without concern for how you will be treated. We have great respect for everyone who aspires to live up to our subreddit rules.

We plan to add a report option for Generative-AI content over this weekend. Until then, should you need to, you can report it as spam. The subreddit sidebar and elsewhere will be updated to reflect this new rule as well.

We will not be enforcing this rule retroactively. Old posts, especially those we’ve already closed tickets on, are not welcome to be reported for violating this rule.

Thank you everyone for engaging with us and helping us come to this decision, and always feel welcome to revisit this discussion as the days progress.