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[Meta] should there be a formal policy on generative AI in this community? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
submitted 15 hours ago by gid@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/gothindustrial@lemmy.world
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I've been caught out in a recent post I made of a Youtube DJ mix that used AI art in the video (I didn't actually watch the video: that's on me). I've also seen some comments about album artwork being AI in some posts.

From a personal standpoint: I don't want to hear/see generative AI stuff, and I don't want to intentionally promote it. However, it's impossible to determine with 100% accuracy if something uses gen AI, so any kind of approach to monitoring it is going to be best-effort.

I'd like to hear this community's thoughts. Would you like there to be a community policy for the exclusion of gen AI content?

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[–] Sergio@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

My suggestion is to add a line to the sidebar saying that AI-generated music is discouraged here.

Thinking through some scenarios:

  1. going to one of those GenAI music sites and giving the prompt: "make a song about ..." and posting the results here.
  2. taking a human-made song (without GenAI) and using GenAI to make a music video
  3. using GenAI to make an image for a human-made song (e.g. as an album cover)
  4. a human authoring a song using tools that involve LLMs (or other types of deep neural networks), e.g. filters, noise reduction plugins, etc.

There's a separate consideration: a) is it obvious to the listener/viewer that GenAI was used or b) not.

Now my personal beliefs are: for case 4, those sorts of tools were used before and the new algorithms work better; GenAI adds ethical problems but the musician may not even know what algorithm is being used. For cases 2 and 3 I look down on them but I can see why a talented musician might use them, though I'd think they were wrong to do so and I might comment negatively about it.

Case 1 is the problematic one, right? Especially if it's not obvious that the musician is not real. For that reason in my posts I try to find some evidence that the musician is human and have recently been posting links to that evidence, and there've been a couple songs I didn't post bc I didn't find that evidence. But I don't think everybody should be required to investigate in that way.

Also, I don't believe that being pro-GenAI is an evil in the same way that bigotry (such as sexism, homophobia, racism, etc) is. But I will (probably?) downvote it and call it out if I see it. That's why, if others agree, I believe there should be a post discouraging it but not a prohibition.

DISCLAIMER: if the situation changes, e.g. we start getting spammed with numerous GenAI songs, then reconsider.