Concerning Captions and AI art

For my communities (!gts@lemmynsfw.com and !tsf@lemmynsfw.com) I'm not going to say a strict "no" just yet and take a bit of time to monitor; but For me personally I would rather keep AI in it's own corner (the dedicated AI comms). once either of these get some userbase and more regular posts then I do want to see whether we should allow it (under proper tagging), move it to a dedicated comm or just put a full stop on it altogether.

My big concern is that AI generated content does not respect the authors of the original works it used to train and most checkpoints use various aggregator sites like Danbooru which already exist in a weird state legally. Another concern is that AI art is stupid easy to make (any bloke with a recent NVIDIA GPU can spin up Stable Diffusion or you can use one of many online services/spaces) and start spamming your comm with low effort content. Granted some AI outputs can look good; but most of the seriously good outputs have been selected and altered in some capacity to address the current limitations of the technology.

That said I am not active in this comm and I'm talking moderation standpoint first, lemmy user second, what decision is made should be left to the people who are part of this comm and I have no reason to meddle in it.

Regarding TF captions: I don't personally have a complaint as long as they don't overwhelm everything else - they're not as engaging as other content, but they can fill out a healthy community.

But /r/transformation had some very reasonable purposes behind banning AI art - first and foremost that AI art is uniquely ill-equipped to provide good TF art, due to the interpolation needed between a first and final form. AI can surely shift the pixels around to make a waifu picture more mermaid-y, but it's not going to have consistency in the ways needed to build a good result.

I think having a separate community for that is meaningful and worthwhile (a la /r/aiexpansionhentai, which used AI for a subset of TF that's much easier to automate), and when AI art gets good enough (and humans get good enough at wielding it) the conversation is worth revisiting.

I mean im certaintly not going to complain about it!