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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Churii~
I dont care much about it being used in group banners, but the one thing that does bother me is AI generated world thumbnails that are clearly meant to depict the world itself and are therefore misleading to whats actually in the world.
I agree, it should be reguired to declare through a world tag and users should be able to filter out that tag in world searches or in the default world tabs (Popular, Newly Updated, etc...). I've been wanting to be ablw to hide them for some time so they dont show up when I'm looking for new worlds.
bakakuma
Require content to declare it and give us a filter to filter it out, thank yoooou
Ekso
The growing number of AI-generated or AI "enhanced" world thumbnails has really made world hopping a lot less fun for me.
I've been trying not to let it get to me because there are plenty of world authors in the past where I've said "there's no way that's what it looks like" and been totally blown away by what they've been able to accomplish.
But now when I see something that looks like it might be impressive my first thought is something like "do I even want to bother to find out".
It feels like I'm constantly wading through attempts to deceive me
smt923
my biggest issue with this recently has been worlds with AI generated thumbnails as they are often massively misleading, which makes the thumbnails no longer useful and requires you to have to load in to every world to actually see what it's like, which I think is inflating join numbers on these worlds and in general leads to a more frustrating and less enjoyable experience checking out worlds
BadNicc
I like this in theory but let's be real, who's gonna enforce this?
Whaddageek
BadNicc Add it as a report option for worlds.
bakakuma
Whaddageek yeah exactly this.
PDB
it is so annoying when people use ai on their group banner and then when called out they defend it, and they keep defending it and getting angry over it, this would help so much.
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.
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