AI content discussion

[sbot2015]

With the launch of Veo 3 and similar capable AI video tools, I think AI content rules should be reviewed. This is already a very niche community and completely banning AI content is just fracturing the community where this should be a place for centralised discussion and media for this interest. There are already discussion boards for discussing many other topics on this board, so it seems strange to exclude this. I can understand the rule of banning it from fembotwiki, but to not allow links to be shared in a discussion board is very restrictive. New models such as veo 3 only require a Google account and is allowing people in this community to explore their ideas and create new media in an exciting new way. You can see places such as deviantart have many accounts creating great content with AI, but it's so hard to discover when it's fragmented on different places on the web. Allowing AI content here would allow a central place for all of this to be shared and grow the community. I think AI content should be clearly marked and only posted in an AI dedicated board. This would be of great benefit to the community in my opinion. I of course advocate for genuine artists to continue their great work and support their work as the main purpose of fembotcentral/wiki, but to ignore the possibilities of AI and just shut it out completely is not in the best interests of this very niche community in my opinion.

[MalcfunctionCrazyfor]

Going to have a hard time with this one.

There was an active discussion going on the Reports section where 2 members were sharing and weighting in their experiments, and a healthy discussion sparked. Even Fection weighted in on it.

And now its been completely removed. Not even locked, just removed. Looking real healthy out here.

[sbot2015]

Oh that's not promising, we're such a small group, in-fighting and restrictions is not helping anything. The community should have a genuine vote on things like this, just locking out good discussion on this is not helping anyone. Any idea if the discord allows AI content? (I'm not a member though )

[MalcfunctionCrazyfor]

If you're talking about Fembot Labs, Fembot Central's official(?) discord server. Then no, AI content is not allowed there either, not on reports or creation posts.

[ProchazkaJBG]

Oh that's not promising, we're such a small group, in-fighting and restrictions is not helping anything. The community should have a genuine vote on things like this, just locking out good discussion on this is not helping anyone. Any idea if the discord allows AI content? (I'm not a member though )

Don't worry you'll get shouted down soon enough lmao

[TheShoveller]

If you're talking about Fembot Labs, Fembot Central's official(?) discord server. Then no, AI content is not allowed there either, not on reports or creation posts.

Fembot Labs is different from Fembot Central, which is also different from Fembot Wiki. Robotman used to have the forums and the wiki, but since he stopped running them they were split between Spaz (the wiki) and myself (the forums.) FBL was never officially a part of this - just a similar community on which we're on pretty good terms. Just because someone gets banned off the forums doesn't mean they're banned from the other two or vice-versa.

[DukeNukem 2417]

If that "shouted down" bit was a dig at me, allow me to clarify my stance.

I am all for the creation of content by human beings using their God-given talent and imagination. Write, draw, paint, compose, sculpt - however you want to create, create. But if your idea of creativity is "feed a prompt to an algorithmic engine that shits out some approximation of what you asked for that it could only make by way of analyzing terabytes of other work made by actual people", then that isn't creativity. LLMs and other generative engines are a crutch, not a tool.

[MalcfunctionCrazyfor]

Hey Shoveler. Apologies, that's why I put the question mark in there. However, I do believe I'm accurate as well in stating that AI is not allowed in Fembot Labs discord as well, correct?

Making sure I'm not spreading misinformation.

[sbot2015]

If that "shouted down" bit was a dig at me, allow me to clarify my stance.

I am all for the creation of content by human beings using their God-given talent and imagination. Write, draw, paint, compose, sculpt - however you want to create, create. But if your idea of creativity is "feed a prompt to an algorithmic engine that shits out some approximation of what you asked for that it could only make by way of analyzing terabytes of other work made by actual people", then that isn't creativity. LLMs and other generative engines are a crutch, not a tool.

I understand your stance, but allowing AI isn't stopping people from creating using the tools they want to. Engaging with creating media here is very time consuming and potentially costly if you want to learn photoshop for example and that isn't going to allow you to produce videos. Everyone is creative in their own way, for example I do a lot of photography for travel and street photography, but that doesn't mean I'm skilled at photo manipulation in photoshop, but I still want to engage with the community here. AI is a fun way of exploring new options for content to share with the community. Restricting it to a specific board for example ensures it doesn't dilute the real art being created on the main boards, but allows for more engagement from the wider community.

[dubhdanaidh]

There are some smaller fembot themed Discords that allow AI and I know plenty of people members of them and FembotLabs and/or Fembot Central. So there are places if AI images/movies are your thing.

[sbot2015]

There are some smaller fembot themed Discords that allow AI and I know plenty of people members of them and FembotLabs and/or Fembot Central. So there are places if AI images/movies are your thing.

Any examples/links? My point was mainly about FW/C though as I've always viewed it as being great as a central hub for bringing all of this content together instead of just another site.

[dubhdanaidh]

It's RobocopGirls HQ

https://discord.gg/Wxm86JAr

I also know Kube and BunnyBot post stuff on DeviantArt. Bunnybot seems more active. There are a few other people posting AI content on DeviantArt too.

[TheShoveller]

Hey Shoveler. Apologies, that's why I put the question mark in there. However, I do believe I'm accurate as well in stating that AI is not allowed in Fembot Labs discord as well, correct?

Making sure I'm not spreading misinformation.

Correct, they've got a similar policy.

To clarify, while we do not allow AI works here on the forum, I will say that we do not completely disallow it - only when the bulk of the work is done by AI.

Asking an AI to write a story based on a prompt or two you give, and editing the result for grammar and punctuation? Not acceptable - the AI did the bulk of the work, you did little more than spellcheck it.

Writing a story and saying "Hey AI tool, give me some scenarios for a fembot story," and then using the premise of a scenario for your own written-by-you story? Acceptable. Same thing with like, "if I was a robot and I had to escape being trapped in this room, what would I do?" and using the suggestion it gives you - agaion, written in your own words, not the AI's.

Saying "Hey AI, make me a picture of a fembot malfunctioning and broken down!" and then posting the result here? Not acceptable. Not even if you photoshop it a bit, or get an AI generated image of a person and photoshop it into a robot - not cool.

Saying "Hey AI, show me a pic of a humanoid robot broken on the floor," and then using that as a reference for your own drawn / 3d modelled work? Acceptable - it's being used as a reference, not the bulk of the work.

I honestly can't think of a single valid use for an AI generated video beyond maybe rotoscoping if you do 2d animation yourself, but even then you can probably find already existing works that do a lot of that stuff as it is without needing AI.

[RoxxyRobofox]

It is extremely disingenuous of you to come here like "Oh woe is me we were having such a productive conversation and the mean old mods deleted it" when in the deleted thread you explicitly stated "If this is against the rules the mods can delete it".