Require content using generative AI to declare it
°sky
Content that uses generative AI should have to declare that it is being used, and should be able to be filtered out of search results and recommendations by the user.
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Gipzi_says
I definitely agree that we need some form of declaration for AI slop on VRChat. I'm someone who likes to look a bit closer at textures/models in a world, and way too often I've noticed that an image or model is very likely AI generated and therefore completely ruins that world for me. Being able to have the choice to filter that out would be amazing, same way we're able to choose to filter out horror or gore or things like that.
It obviously won't be perfect, nothing is. But having some method of telling at a glance if something is AI or not via a tag would be a tremendous help all around
-V I A-
I have seen too many ai slop world thumbnails. They give you false hope thinking a place will be super interesting but it’s just a poorly designed ai code riddled world.
It hurts seeing a world with an ai thumbnail shoot to the top of new and noteworthy and popular because people fall for the clickbait thumbnail and title.
I’ve also seen so many groups, many popular ones too, use ai art for all there banners and images.
흑단열쇠
Personally, I detest generative AI. It feels as though my own work is being used merely as a stepping stone.
However, the harsh reality is that there is no fundamental difference between generative AI and human creators.
Only someone who can claim they have never once been influenced by art in the real world—whether on X, Facebook, YouTube, in books, movies, music, or even within their own home—would have the right to criticize me.
Every creator absorbs countless influences when making their work; it is impossible to recall every single one of them.
Two years ago, one could dismiss generative AI as a nuisance that churned out nothing but clumsy, low-quality trash, but those days are over. Much of what AI generates today is high quality. Enjoyable worlds get featured on curated playlists, while boring ones go unnoticed and quietly fade into obscurity.
Furthermore, from a copyright perspective, AI-generated assets can sometimes be more reliable than a hodgepodge of assets from unknown origins. I recall instances on the Unity Asset Store where assets stolen from unrelated games were being distributed.
Besides—and anyone who truly respects creators would understand this—unless everything is entirely handmade, it is impossible to accurately verify whether or not any given data asset contains AI-generated content.
If one is angry about the mass production of low-quality content, what is needed isn't a "Generative AI" tag, but rather a "Boring" tag applied by users. That said, I wouldn't want that to happen, as it could easily sap the motivation of sincere, promising creators.
After all, in a world flooded with illegally data-mined content and avatars ripped without permission, does anyone truly believe such rules would be effective?
They would likely only result in creating more tedious work for honest, well-intentioned people.
MissingNO123
흑단열쇠 L AI-Generated response Sam A is NOT gonna let you hit bro
The fundamental difference from human-generated content is that a machine has no concept of inspiration and only generates the most statistically likely output. The machine can never understand
why
a person would want to see something, it only knows a significant amount of people might. Any philosophical debate you could have about AI is moot, however, because it literally doesn't matter how many pretend scenarios you could come up with about how AI might work, that doesn't matter. The true hard facts is that
this is not how it's being used
. People don't see a potential tool to assist them in creating worlds. People see a way to get the same amount of clout as those who actually put work and care into their craft. People see a way to take a shortcut and spit out a high volume of low effort content just for fame (or sometimes to make a quick buck off VRC credits). The technology enables this, to such a high degree to where it becomes this. AI-generated slop has become so ubiquitous that at this point it is almost inseparable from it.
I'm sure we'd all love to hear what your actual opinion on the matter is rather than whatever Bot you used to come up with this response for you.
Quote04
Yes please, VRChat has way too much Slop and at the very least It should be able to be filtered out. I want to see real creativity, not Facebook-tier machine generated garbage.
Cedarbear
I also second this, having an option to filter out AI generated material from my world and avatar suggestions would be appreciated. A tag for ai generated art assets, and ai generated code would be appreciated as separate things.
Obviously, things will slip by, but just having the option would be appreciated.
Scareye1
i definetly agree with this as i personally noticed the uptick in ammount of deceptive pictures for worlds as example, there are genuine creators who bring us amazingly desinged worlds and thus we should give back by protecting their work and ackomplishments, please protect them .
Cedarbear
Scareye1
I also have noticed this within the thumbnails of content. This is a very real issue Roblox is having at the current moment and is effecting creators and players alike at a much larger scale.
Moderation is needed.
Zarphus
i wholeheartedly and emphatically agree with this proposal. genAI is getting out of control and i want to know if the world im joining has it.
i want to appreciate the work of human creativity, not wonder if im walking through a genAI landscape.
GLITTERB0NES
In support of artists who put there whole soul into painstakingly piece by piece making avatars and worlds only for AI that has little effort put in it over half the time be pushed forward, I think this is a wonderful idea. Unsure of how enforcing this would go but it's better than the nothing we have right now.
Neutrality or not we all gotta see the big picture, the future we want to see in vrc. Last year there was such a big uptick of AI generated "Museums" and "Interactive worlds" with little or nothing in them or just straight up stealing art and running through a generator. There is no effort put in these just laziness trying to pass as something it's not.
If there is it's actually got a human touch at least IN IT, not 100% AI.
pyrothermal
Not sure how well it can be enforced, but I would like to see it happen.
Enasona
Now that creator monetization is present it’s more important than ever for VRChat to categorize and separate AI generated content! We want to support real human artists!
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