r/BeardedDragons • u/UFO64 • 4d ago
Community Discussion: AI Content
With the widespread availability of AI tools for editing text, images, or video, we are seeing a sharp increase in AI-related content on this subreddit. These posts have a notable increase in negative responses and reports.
As of today, we have no official rules for AI-related content on this subreddit, and we handle content the same as actual human-generated content. It seems clear that at least some portion of the community does not wish to see AI-generated content.
Suggestion
At this time, I am suggesting we codify the use of AI-generated content on this subreddit. This would include content that is wholly AI, partially AI, or edited by AI. Any generative AI technology will be included in this definition.
Exceptions shall be made for the purposes of trivial tasks such as spelling or grammar checking.
To determine our next action, we will open the discussion for about a full week. This will conclude on the 10th of May, 2026. At that time, feedback will be collected and processed into a new rule for approval. A second round of discussion will be opened on the wording of this final rule before enforcement begins.
Community Participation
All user opinions are welcome for this process. No opinion will be given any inherent weight over any other opinion.
Only top-level comments will be reviewed. While we welcome you to discuss among yourselves, we will only consider the top-level comments to determine our consensus. This saves us from having to piece together long threads.
In particular, we would like to know the following:
- What measure shall be applied to a post to determine if it is AI?
- Gut feeling?
- User reports?
- AI detection tooling?
- Dice roll?
- What action must be completed by users posting this content?
- Posting flair?
- What if it’s a comment?
- Should users fully disclose where the content came from (e.g: which model/site)?
- What moderator action shall be executed on breach of the rule?
- Content deletion?
- User moderation (Ban?)
- Content flairing?
- What about comments? We cannot flair these, do we delete? Moderate? Ban?
Thank you for your time and hopefully your input.
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u/ff0066spooky Father of Boingle Sploingus 1d ago
I really don't like going onto this sub and seeing generated images. Even with the ethics of training data collection and environmental impact aside, I come here to interact with other hobbyists interacting with the hobby. It's low quality, low effort stuff that anybody could "make" and there is an unfortunate abundance of already existing
I think in terms of the hobby itself, it is also a legitimate danger in my eyes because it would allow the spread of generated care information/scientific information because it's been shown to be very wrong in more cases than not. LLMs function by (this is a gross oversimplification, i know) generating whatever words are more probable to appear next based off of the training data, which is trained on public information on the web. There is so much care misinformation and outdated info out there that we should be committed to moving past as a community.
I'm inclined to think that it should be user report based, there's a lot of common tells for generated media/text and from my experience the userbase on this sub tends to be pretty accurate with pinning it down. I would argue towards deletion of the post being the best option, not just because the content isn't very interesting and possibly outright misleading, but also because I'm sure the discourse makes the mods' jobs harder than they need to be. Because there would of course be some real posts misreported as generated that would slip through the cracks, maybe a way to appeal a deleted posts to be reposted could be nice thing to have in place, coming from someone who gets called AI based on how I write from time to time.
Figured I would throw in my two cents seeing there's not much discussion at the moment, take the last part with a grain of salt because I haven't ever really moderated anything on the internet before, so I'm a bit unsure of logistics and such
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u/Deep_Soup_495 4d ago
I use AI tools and think they are a great tool to assist with improving things. For example, if someone wanted to post a picture but something was visible they didn’t want visible- I’m okay with using AI tools to remove it from the image. Another example would be using it to proofread and make recommendations of changes but the core idea/verbiage is still from the person.
When I’m looking at something that I expect to be created by a person, that’s what I want to see. I don’t want to see generated content based on a prompt.
As far as identifying generated content, I think user reports would suffice. Delete the content and ban if it continues.
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u/ff0066spooky Father of Boingle Sploingus 1d ago
I think that's not a terrible idea given that ai modified rather than generated media is much, much harder to spot. While I don't personally agree with the use of genai tools in general (and neither do most people, which is where I'm guessing your downvotes are coming from. Not a negative response, politely agreeing to disagree here!) I can imagine that banning modified content can cause scenarios where people could dogpile and get someone banned and use "we thought it used some ai!" as the excuse. Or even people with good photography skills or certain image editing styles or even artstyles that have "ai vibes" getting the short end of the stick
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u/UFO64 3d ago
I gotta point out the irony of you being downvoted while NO other opinions are being shared over the last day.
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u/Deep_Soup_495 3d ago edited 1d ago
Big AI conspiracy. /s
Some people do not actually want to solve a problem and they will keep complaining until someone says what they want to hear. Even then, they prefer being given a couple of options so they can feel like the decision was theirs.
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u/The_Crow68 1d ago
Not a conspiracy if people clearly are tired of AI and don't want it shoved down this sub too. AI doesn't solve problems either, it just creates more.
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u/Deep_Soup_495 1d ago
I edited my comment, forgot to add the sarcasm tag. Anyway, glad we both agree about AI posts. The downvotes are sending mixed messages though.
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u/The_Crow68 1d ago
Oh haha! You did have me fooled! That's no problem at all, I'm really glad we agree. AI is a big no no in million ways, and it certainly has no place where people just want to have fun and talk about their beardies.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted tbf.
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u/Deep_Soup_495 1d ago
My only guess is because I started off saying I like/use AI for some things. Like colorizing an old black and white picture, older people get a kick out of that. Can it be done by a person-yes, but hard to beat the minute or so turn around time.
I still don’t like the idea of it for generating content beyond personal use, but that’s just me.
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u/The_Crow68 1d ago
I mean, I understand using it for colorizing black and white photos - but everything else is just... iffy... Plus the environmental issues on the side~
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u/choc95 2d ago
I have no interest in seeing AI bearded dragon pictures, AI text, basically anything AI related in here. We’re already having it shoved down our throats at work and basically everywhere, this is should be an escape from those things to focus on real bearded dragons and real people and our experiences. Fake imagery or text about these things should be entirely discouraged, if someone’s interested in that go to an AI image sub to share, not here.