Server Suggestion Ban AI generated images on signs / billboards

[rat]

Suggestion Title: Ban AI generated images on signs / billboards
Suggestion Description: Ban AI generated images on signs / billboards

Why should this be added?:
- AI is incredibly cringe, harmful to the enviroment and detrimental to real artists. It shouldn't be allowed on the server. Wasting such gargatuan amounts of electricity to advertise your shitty gmod perpheads store is so wasteful!!!!!!

What negatives could this have?:
- Literally none.

What problem would this suggestion solve?: Me having to stroll through bazaar and see low effort shitty AI images on every sign.

 

[Allen Kennedy]

Having not read any of the millions of replies in this thread, I feel well informed enough to offer a nuanced take on the matter.

Yes, AI is cringe, and if you want real art, you should commission an actual artist to make what you want, or do it yourself, because that's the honest and right thing to do. However, this is a video game, and some people just suck ass at art and graphic design in general. You just need to look at like 75% of the signs in bazaar to realise that.

I don't think blocking the use of AI generated/assisted artwork on signs on any kind of moral grounds is practical, feasible, or even desirable. It will just result in people accusing each other of using AI, probably when the sign still looks like ass anyhow. It'll waste staff time, waste players time, and be a pain in the ass for anyone needing something quick for a shop.

If the main concern is to be the overuse of AI slop on signs and image boards, then perhaps just lobbying for staff to be harsher on rule 2.9 and perhaps suggest a rule change adding a bullet point to it regarding your typical AI slop images. But you're not gonna stop people making a gun shop sign out of the studio-ghibli version of their perp character, and I don't see why you would want to either.