As someone who spent half my night yesterday filling out the paperwork as a victim of IP theft in the big Anthropic AI/copyright lawsuit because they fed ten years of my life's work into their algorithm without consent, I sincerely, and energetically, appreciate you all having a firm stance on this. (I'm supposed to give a talk in September on the risks to authors involving generative AI and I had the thought tonight I might just start with "I dunno, it gets worse every day for us, does anyone have any specific questions or shall we start drinking now?")
In this case, we're MORE concerned about people using AI to generate images (memes, toy ideas, figure-art/action photos, etc). But while we're at it, it's worth just taking a stance on all of it and we're totally covered.
I think what sells us entirely on it is the fact that so many Thots (is that what we're calling ourselves?) are literally professional creatives or near-professional creatives. Too many people we all are interacting with right here on this forum are actively having their work stolen to feed AI programs. It just seems right to say we don't want to see any of that here.
Let's leave aside Collections and Customs for now, as I think those should be at the bottom regardless of everything else; I feel like a 'General Toys' thread needs to either be at the bottom of the list or the top. It doesn't make sense in my brain for it to be anywhere else. Either you have 'general' and then get more specific below it, or you have your specific stuff at the top and finish off with the 'and everything else goes here.'
