I run a niche creative community, and we outlawed AI-generated content in 2022 as it was easy to see how corrosive it would be to the community.

It hasn't been easy. We ban fake AI accounts daily and shrug off around 600 AI content creator accounts monthly.

It's a lot of work, extra work that wasn't needed before AI content came around, and of course, that is an extra cost.

I fear losing the battle.

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WolfeReader 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Unlike a lot of communities, yours at least started on the correct side. Better to ban outright, than to slowly realize that you should have banned it.

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RodgerTheGreat 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Indeed. Take a soft approach, or "wait and see", and you'll just allow your community to get infested with slop enthusiast crybullies that loudly protest any pushback against "genai content". The communities that draw a firm line and hold it will be the only ones that endure.

	▲	CrzyLngPwd 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It was a surprise to us how vehemently some folk defended AI content and assumed it was their right to post it within our community. We had no problems with people using it and posting elsewhere, it was the demands that we must allow it that were problematic and made us question whether we were doing the right thing. No regrets now, though, as we see competitors being flooded with AI slop and they are too invested in it to change now. Now I see it as the perfect tool for impostors.

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thinkingtoilet 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What about charging $1 or $5 for an account? Seems like you could stem the tide pretty easily with something like that.

	▲	rgblambda 20 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Or applying for an account could involve sending a handwritten letter by post.
	▲	ishouldstayaway an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		We bringing back Something Awful, now?
	▲	pojntfx 28 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If you head to Twitter right now, the vast majority of bots are blue checks. It seems to actually encourage the opposite, where you trusting that someone paying $8 for an account makes you even more likely to fall for slop