This raises a lot of fundamental issues, none of which the OP bothers to tackle:

I personally don't AI-generated images to be particularly interesting, but I do find this proposal lazy and incendiary, because it doesn't suggest any possible way to enforce this that avoids a ton of bullying and witchhunts. This is an obviously terrible idea, not because the intention is wrong, but because there isn't any suggested solution here that doesn't have the potential for massive abuse. Without concrete measures to ensure the medicine isn't worse than the poison, I don't think this is something that could ever actually be put into practical effect. This would be an absolute nightmare for an organization to actually put into practice.

please. Artists are the only thing that gives VRChat its life. They need to be prioritized or I guarantee this platform will go downhill.

Personally I feel this is a serviceable idea. Sure you can't make people tag their content accurately, but that's no reason not to do it because the same applies for all the other content filters, and those definitely help people regardless of the fact that some content goes unreported. And there are absolutely enough people who do not want to see any generated content whatsoever that a feature like this is warranted.

I do still think that there may need to be a broader rethinking of the content gating system to deal with people who refuse to engage with it. It definitely happens with all of the tags, but in my experience, almost all people who generate content with "AI" specifically try to be deceptive about it because they know it's unpopular. So I suspect this tag in particular will be even more underutilized than the others. Not sure what a different approach to content gating would look like though, so I think in the short term, this makes sense.

All filters are to protect minors and to filter traumatizing content. Ai slop filter would be a filter for preferences/taste. Adding it would be close to adding filters for furries, lgbt etc. I think we need a different approach to this problem than adding another filter to existing list of nsfw filters. Community tags, similar to steam game tags, or other world scoring system would better address the problem here.

Well, seeing comments like that around here is exactly why I can't agree with this proposal. Some people are so desperate to turn this into a moral crusade against AI that they completely ignore basic logic. You need to be smart enough to handle the scissors before you start running around with them.

fully agree, this should be a filter option. i do not like seeing worlds that look like one thing in the thumbnail bc of ai then are totally different looking when i load in.

AI generated content has been greatly impacting my experience as a world explorer. I don't browse new worlds in-game anymore and instead look for good ones on VRC photographers social media. AI content doesn't help anyone. All it creates is a miserable experience for users, low quality content hidden behind fake thumbnails, content "creators" using AI and producing slop that confuses its users instead of learning how to create and design worlds that people want. It's a miserable experience where people who don't know anything about design, lighting, modeling, texturing etc. can now mass produce garbage that's only impressive if you know absolutely nothing. If I wanted to see shit I'd generate it myself. I browse worlds to see things with at least a single thought put into them. I want to experience CREATIONS not HALLUCINATIONS.

Nope. This would be incredibly short-sighted and counterproductive for an ecosystem that relies on user-created content. AI-assisted workflows empower ordinary people without lots of free time and money to create on an equal footing. AI assisted workflows are very obviously the future of gamedev and content creation.

A bad world is bad whether it was made by AI or by hand, and a good world should not need a warning label just because a texture, script or a prop was AI-assisted.

The real thing people dislike is low-effort, lazy worlds with thumbnails which don't represent them accurately. This was always a problem, even before AI. But it's one that is largely mitigated by the community labs system.

Content gating should be based on what the user actually experiences, not what tools the creator used. VRChat's filter categories describe the content itself. “Made with AI” describes a tool used.

Not to mention, it's also completely impossible to even enforce. How do you prove if something was AI assisted or not? You'd be surprised at how many big world creators are quietly using AI for their world development behind the scenes for scripts, textures, upscaling, audio effects, etc.

The gatekeeping is getting exhausting. Let creatives build with the tools they want to use.

External feedback: https://old.reddit.com/r/VRchat/comments/1umlnnk/please_add_content_contains_generative_ai_to/

fuck ai and stop data centers