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I want to preface this by saying I've taken a good look through Lioden rules, TOS and chatter rules but I haven't found anything about AI. If I missed it and there is a rule against/regulating the use of AI, please tell me and I will delete this post. This is written under my understanding that Lioden has not yet put any rules over AI so if this is not the case, my post is misguided. Thank you.


Warning: Long rant about AI and why its bad (I'm tired now haha)
I've recently seen viral images/videos of AI work that look alarmingly realistic, and I'm terrified. As an artist, I wonder what this could do to my job, to my dreams. The way AI is starting to catch up reflects on AI "art". This is not a post condemning or asking Lioden to sort this issue out because, of course, this has nothing to do with them. But what it is doing, is asking for strict rules around AI.

As I've spent my time on this site, I've seen the lively community of passionate artists, writers, animators and people who are interested in those services. AI threatens that. What if people start to lose interest in real artwork? They start to offer up auctions of AI work?

In terms of morality, AI steals from artists and as a site full of dedicated artists, the site is proudly full of artwork itself, this is betraying all those people who have worked so hard. But even looking through a business lens, AI can destroy the sense of community on the site. Artists leave, commissioners leave, people who just care in general leave.

I know that this is a roleplaying game. I know that the community aspect isn't a core thing, but the community is so integral to the site and I don't think Lioden would be so enjoyable without it.

I'm not asking the Lioden team to focus all their attention and efforts on keeping AI out but at the very least, have a clear rule put in place against it. This will make it easier to ban users who use it. Not only that but it is further re-enforcing the no tracing/stealing art rule given AI is literally formed by the stolen work of artists.

This is not an angry call-out post to Lioden for not having something in place against AI, not at all, AI is only very recent. All this is, is asking the team to make sure artists don't suffer in the long run. My biggest fear is having all my years' worth of building up a name for myself, developing my art through trial and error, caring about improving...lost to a program.


If you do or don't support this, please do tell me why. Everyone's take matters to me.
And as I mentioned at the beginning, this is all written under the idea that Lioden has not put any AI rules in place so if they have, this is not a necessary discussion and I will delete it.