Posted on: 04/28/24 06:04PM
IncComplex3D said:
CarbuncleMew said:
AI content needs to be indistinguishable from real art. So it can't contain any ai artifacts (squidfingers, fine details merging into other details in unnatural ways, ect). At the current stage of this technically, the only way this is possible is to use an art program and manually fix them.
That's a very subjective bar to make as a site-wide policy.. and not to mention the ambiguity - you can have AI generated images with varying level of such artifacts ranging from obviously messed up and unnatural stuff to you won't even recognize the aberrations from a cursory look, the latter of which seems more acceptable to me and believe the bucket my post falls under. But thank you for at least giving an explanation.
Many of our policies are subjective.
If there is
any level of artifacting, the image is not allowed. As stated in the Terms of Service, AI-generated images must be
indistinguishable from human-drawn. If we can identify artifacts at all, even if we have to look at it for a while or someone has to point them out to us, the image can be distinguished from human-drawn and will be removed.
Deleting images with artifacts has been a precedent since before AI-generated images were even a thing. AI upscales have been disallowed since Waifu2x very first came out, we've always only allowed third-party edits if it wasn't possible to tell that the image was edited without seeing the original, so even artifacts left behind from someone doing work by hand aren't allowed, and noticeable JPEG compression artifacts on their own are enough for an image to be deleted regardless of how well it was drawn. Artifacts of any kind lower the quality of an image.
As CarbuncleMew said, it's very rare for purely AI-generated images to be able to meet this bar. It usually only happens by sheer luck when trying to generate an image that avoids most of the elements that AI tends to mess up, such as chains, jewelry, and detailed hair. Most of the time, AI-generated images will need significant manual editing to be accepted.
The reason for the rule about only restoring AI-generated images if you can prove that it wasn't AI-generated at all is because if the image was deleted, then some member of staff found AI artifacts. This means that the post was distinguishable from human-drawn art. The only way for the deletion to be incorrect in this situation is for the image not to have involved AI at all and for the artifact to instead be a mistake by the human artist who drew it. It should be noted, though, that mistakes that look like AI artifacts will often qualify the artwork itself as being poor.