Traveller

Today's crop of heavily-promoted image-generation models and text-generation models are both trained on huge swaths of the public internet as well as private sources; this has been done without the consent of the vast majority of authors and artists of those works. Once fed into the model during training, there is no way to retract a work from the resulting model.

Both the training of models, and the routine usage of them, consume unethically large amounts of electricity (and water consumed for cooling).

People who use those models to generate text or images, and then post the results, are either unaware of the ethical abuses, or don't care enough to stop. Yes, I support a blanket ban on posting such content here.

While I would never try to publish something generated by AI, I do use AI tools for PC and NPC portraits (mostly this person doesn't exist, because I suck at prompting) in a personal capacity for games I'm in. I prefer it to taking historical photos and using those, which I've known several GM's to do, often without checking who the person was, or assigning the photo of a civil rights activist as a villain (yeah, don't play in that game any more).

I have mixed feelings on AI as a field. I don't believe it is reliable when it comes to decisions or coding. But it can be useful as a starting point. For people with zero artistic skill and limited funds it can be a useful tool.

I would say "no promotion or selling of AI generated content, but discussion of AI and it's possible uses is okay". I don't even mind posting of AI art, as long as it is clearly labeled.

worth noting, i believe that discussion is for c/rpg specifically, i dont think it was about a blanket ban for the entire instance.

Boo.