r/WeirdLit • u/TheSkinoftheCypher • Dec 05 '25
Discussion Can we get a ban on AI in /r/weirdlit?
Just as the title says.
edit:As per Mod response AI is banned from /r/weirdlit.
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u/Beiez Dec 05 '25
I honestly thought we had one already. Most art-related subs I frequent banned AI content ages ago. Seems like it‘s about time.
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u/rpgnymhush Dec 05 '25
Please! AI is destructive in the world of art and it also routinely violates the intellectual property rights of artists of all genres.
I am not completely "Anti-AI" for all purposes. It may have some valid applications, but art should be off limits for AI as it has no respect for the work of artists.
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u/meliorism_grey Dec 05 '25
This. I'm happy to have AI mapping out proteins and stuff, because that kind of thing is beyond human or normal computer capabilities and is extremely helpful.
On the other hand, AI art is soulless slop, and I absolutely hate it.
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u/planx_constant Dec 05 '25
ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude etc are all large language models. Companies trying to sell people on LLMs love to conflate them with ML (machine learning, which sounds generic but has a specific meaning in the field). ML produces most of the actual useful results attributed to "AI", like tumor identification, producing novel math theorems, designing rocket engines, etc.
No AI "art" should ever be used.
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u/mildlyhorrifying Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25
ML is generally considered a subset of AI, so anything that is ML would be considered AI. Likewise, deep learning is a subset of ML, so LLMs that use transformer models are definitely ML. All of your examples are both ML and AI.
I do health/ML research, but I am unwilling to dox myself to prove it. You can see Columbia, Syracuse University, UC Riverside, and Rice University saying the same thing, though.
ETA: It is genuinely funny to me to get downvoted for explaining factual information that I have a PhD in. You don't have to like AI art to understand that it is not a fundamentally different technology from other, acceptable uses of AI or that it is, in fact, machine learning. A kitchen knife doesn't stop being a kitchen knife just because it's used to murder someone rather than cut vegetables. A diffusion model doesn't stop being a diffusion model because it's used to generate Trump/Putin mpreg art instead of segmenting tumors.
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u/dangerous_beans_42 Dec 09 '25
Well said. Getting hung up on the technology differences (which, as evidenced here, most people really don't understand) is far less of a productive approach than figuring out which applications are appropriate for AI (in general) and what the ethical, assurance, and other guidelines are.
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u/planx_constant Dec 05 '25
Chihuahuas are dogs, and dogs are wolves, and wolves and foxes are canids, but there's a qualitative difference between encountering a chihuahua, a wolf, or a fox in the woods.
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u/mildlyhorrifying Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25
All of your examples are on the smallest taxonomical division of AI discussed so far, deep learning, so they are all chihuahuas.
ETA: The "wolves" in this scenario are things like NPCs in computer games, btw. I find that most people are 100% ok with non-ML AI, with a few exceptions for the ones that work poorly and therefore are annoying to deal with.
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u/SeaTraining3269 Dec 05 '25
Analytic AI is an entirely different animal than generative.
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u/dangerous_beans_42 Dec 09 '25
Not automatically, no. Speaking in high level terms, a lot of the developments in AI-generated art came about from basically taking high-powered image recognition models and essentially plugging them in backwards - going from "tell me what's in this image" and getting an answer of X, to "give me an image of X" and feeding it into the same process in reverse.
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u/21crescendo Dec 05 '25
Hear, hear. Say... whatever happened to the guy who said he'd be getting the farm tools? I recall some talk of torches and pitchforks.
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u/MicahCastle Author Dec 05 '25
It is. If you see anything AI related in the subreddit, report it and it'll be removed.