AI Rules Update Questioning

[MarioChallengerX2]

Simple question: AI art isn't allowed, but what about AI stories?

Like, what if we wanted to use something like AI Dungeon to help us give inspiration for our own SMBX levels?

[krakin]

Simple question: AI art isn't allowed, but what about AI stories?

Like, what if we wanted to use something like AI Dungeon to help us give inspiration for our own SMBX levels?

Guess you're just out of luck then, it wouldn't hurt to ask other people for inspiration once in a while.

[Alagirez]

I think it's fine since it's just for inspiration, not really sure though.

[ElectriKong]

Stories are a form of art, therefore AI generated stories are a form of AI generated art, and they probably have the same issues anyway, even if you don't consider it art. We can't force people to not use AI generated art for inspiration, but we have decided that as a community largely focused on creativity, we should be supporting independent artists, whose livelihoods are threatened by these things, and therefore strongly discourage members of the community from using AI art generators, and disallow anything that encourages others to use said generators. There are all sorts of other things you can use for inspiration for your levels that don't disenfranchise artists.

[krakin]

My views on AI in general have soured a bit recently, mostly after learning about the class-action lawsuits against OpenAI regarding their theft of personal information used in datasets to train their AI models. I used to be a strong proponent of AI generated art, music, videos, and predictive text models, and usually believed that people who argued against supporting them on the basis of theft and jeopardizing the livelihoods of artists were grossly overexaggerating the negative effects of them. Now, I'm not as positive about advocating for AI anymore, especially after seeing this situation where someone deepfaked images of politicians cheating with romantic partners. I see how it definitely could've done real-world harm, as AI image generators have gotten progressively better at making higher quality results that are likely to fool people into believing they're real images.