Hey m@tes, as y'all know, this instance has been anti-corporate GenAI positive since it's creation and as such we've typically allowed such content to be posted freely. However in the last few weeks we've had a bunch of drama from GenAI haters who insist on coming into our comms and starting slap-fights. This caused us to vote on a new rule to have the mandate to clear out this constant friction. This worked to an extent, but I think we can help foster a better community with the larger threadiverse.
One issue a lot of anti-GenAI people keep bringing is that while they can block dedicated comms like !stable_diffusion_art@lemmy.dbzer0.com, they don't have an easy option to avoid GenAI content in random other /0 comms as there's no way to filter it out. This kind of content has been seen to cause a lot of strife, because people complain about its existence, while /0 admins and mods based on the above rule, tend to sanction those complaining. This then causes drama loops with /c/YPTB and /c/FuckAI etc.
There is a good point to be made here that while we don't mind GenAI content in /0, there isn't a reason to not help others avoid it. So we want to institute the following soft rule by now:
Simply tag your posts which consist of primarily GenAI content with the [GenAI] tag in their title. Not only will frontends like Tesseract will natively parse this as a tag and display it accordingly, but people who dislike such content, can simply filter it out of their feeds. Eventually lemmy will add tags which will make this tagging more seamless, but for now a manual tag in the title will suffice.
This rule only applies to posts in non-explicit GenAI comms. The assumption is that people can simply block those comms completely anyway.
As I said, this is a soft rule for now. Soft in the sense that you're not going to be sanctioned for forgetting it, but we hope people will remind you to do so. This is a good-faith attempt by us to co-exist and help others avoid what they don't want to stumble onto, much like [NSFW] tags. So I hope you'll add do a good faith attempt to help us in this. Furthermore, people who come to posts tagged as GenAI explicitly to scold and start slap-fights, will give the admins and easier justification to clean up, since they could have just filtered out that content in the first place.
Cheers
imo you're giving in to a loud minority that aren't looking for reasonable solutions. They hate ai because of propaganda, and they want it gone. They'll keep pushing for more censorship every time because the genie won't go back in the bottle, but damned if they won't try anyways
This is not "giving in"
If we operate on anecdotal rules, I am looking for reasonable solutions and would be happy with this one. If I can filter out stuff I actively dislike, I can live with other people enjoying it behind my back.
if they want it gone, in what way does just tagging the content give in to this crowd?
It's doing extra work and allowing other people to dictate how we use our space, for people that are going to break the rules anyway.
[!lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com](/c/lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com)has been running on this philosophy for ten months now. The sidebar even says:Yet look at all of Best_of_ai_bot's posts. Immediately and heavily downvoted every time. The people doing this won't care, and use the tags to target content.