Effective October 9, all /r/aww posts must be original content - content taken and/or owned by you. All posts will be automatically tagged as OC; you will not need to do anything different. Please continue to report content that is falsely claimed as OC.
Just wanted to say thank you for saving this sub with this rule.
I’m in
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1mo
I think you are stimulating in the back. Mine does this too.
Pogi. Tagalog (Philippines) for "cute".
Ur Philippino??? I am too!!!
My asawa is. From Los Banos.
Ok cool! Nice to meet you
How is it that my own original photos of my actual quadrupeds who live in my actual house and of whom I take actual photos with my own phone are always removed with the OC admonishment? Do you have someone who comes out to the house to confirm? Are my animal companions simply unbelievable?
Is a photo of my cat with a candy on his head original?
Good. Now do no kids.
Are AI-generated cute pictures OK, if they're your original content? You know, something like typing "cute cat photo" into a generative AI and then picking the output picture you think is cutest to post.
AI is not original content.
Sure it is. You wrote the prompt, then fed it to the AI and selected the best output that the AI generated, possibly iterating on the result to get something you wanted. The AI is just the tool you used to create it.
Nope. A better analogy is having someone write your school essay. You supply the prompt, you choose the best output. It's not your content.
Yes, but the A.I. you used to generate it must be trained on your own model with your own original pictures. That way, it's original through-and-through.
No, you're telling an ai to copy-paste pieces of stolen artwork together based on a few words. It's like a frankenstein trace job but even lazier and you'll never even know where the pieces came from.
It doesn’t copy and paste lmao, it bases their creations on related art on the internet. It literally does the same thing as any real life artist, people base their art on other peoples work, just like the ai. They don’t steal anything
Unlike real artists, AI doesn't source their work or credit the original artists who it drew inspiration from. Not to mention, at least real art is produced by genuine creativity and thoughtfulness. All AI does is fabricate an image based on an algorithm and user prompt. And before you say "Oh, but you need creativity to generate the prompt", understand that thinking about an idea versus actually putting effort into solidifying it are not the same thing. There is a substantial difference between thinking and doing.
The AI systems are a lot more complex than mere copy-pasting. They distill the training data down into a raw mathematical model of statistical likelihood that is then used to generate the content based on what it's already generated. Basically, it generates each individual pixel based on the prompt and all the pixels it's already generated.
Okay, so it's extra super duper fancy copy-pasting. Doesn't make it art, dude.
No, it’s not copy pasting
Taking photos of animals is stealing from nature, then, OkiDokiPanic. Perhaps you should do a bit more research before falsely claiming that AI art is merely copy-and-pasting.
Okay, smooth brain. Answer me this; Before AI, let's say you commissioned an artist and gave them a description of what you wanted. After the whole process of finetuning the art with your artist, making sure they give you exactly what you want, would you have taken credit for the final image?
No?
Then why do you think you can take credit for an AI generated image? You also legally can't. AI generated images are not copyrightable for a reason. You didn't do anything. Nothing of the actual creative process, composition, line work, color theory, lighting, anatomy, style, nothing about it came from you.
"But I wrote the prompt!" Okay, should we then give Pope what's-his-name the credit for the Sistine chapel? He's the one that gave the instructions of what he wanted to Michelangelo, after all.
Or was Mona Lisa the actual artistic genuis behind her portrait because she commissioned Da Vinci to paint her?
Prompt-writing is not art. And it never will be art. Deal with it.
No, it's not. The prompt is the only part that's original content. The AI did everything else, using uncredited sources that aren't your work. That is in no way original content.
So than no art is original, because literally every real life artist bases their work on other artists before them…. Just like the ai
Except those artists are using their own creative lens and talent. You're just typing a prompt. That's like telling an artist to paint something and then taking the credit yourself. It requires zero effort, it's not your original content, and it's something literally anyone can do with minimal effort and dedication. Do not compare your own ability to form a sentence with the lifetime of skill artists accumulate. That's arrogance.
AI requires no talent to use. It's not interesting. It's the lowest form of creation. It's not like "being inspired" by other people, it's literally stealing from other people. This is not the first time I've heard this asinine argument in favor of using AI to create art. Being "amazing at typing prompts" is not a skill.
As an artist, hard agree
This subreddit is now only cats
Now this sub is effectively a pet cat & dog sub. Disappointing
r/eyebleach has other animal content.
Which is always what, at least I, thought it was.
Can this include news of the Grey and Harbor Seal pup seasons? I have my work calendar set to notify me when more of God's Perfect Fatsos will enter this crazy world and would like to spread The Good News.
Thank God
Can we also go no dead pets please?
Made the comment because I saw a 3 hour old post about a dead pet.
did you report it? automod and regex are good, but there are some terms that cause way more false positives than necessary (especially passed)
Hmm, I can't remember so I probably didn't.
Was expecting another John Oliver rule again.
I have to say I'm a big fan of the change in the content--it feels so much cozier and sweeter now, like a huge group chat where people share pictures of their own pets they just took.
Good rule! Reminds me of the classic old Reddit
What? Old Reddit was literally a link aggregator, you actually couldn’t post OCs in the old days.
This is the stupidest rule ever. Two posts that I had saved because I wanted to show my mom were removed because of this rule. Each one had thousands of upvotes, one like 20k. If that many people are enjoying it, who CARES if it's original? I can't tell you how many times I've seen posts I loved that were new to me with comments like "no matter how many times I see this I will always upvote it." Or posts I had seen before but forgotten about, like the little baby elephant who charges. It brightened my day but if this dumb rule had been in place, I wouldn't have gotten to see it. Who freaking cares if somebody farmed some karma, if we got to see something cute because of it.
Why this wasn't in place from day 1 is beyond me.
reddit is a content aggregator, and was designed around non-oc. plus, with no direct content monetization until now, there was no reason to change.
Oh wow nice change. Good mods.
This team can do something right for a change!
Cindy I need you to come down to the welfare office I'm not feeling well I don't understand why
Joey come to my office mf
Is there a particular reason behind the change?
as long as reddit karma was (relatively) worthless, it didn't really matter if people wanted to accrue points. reddit is a content aggregator, after all.
but now that karma can be turned into actual money, we're not going to be an avenue for making money off other people's content.
I guess that makes sense, though I question how many people posting stuff that's not OC is doing it to karma farm vs just posting stuff they think is cute/neat.
Not that it's comparable to cute animal gifs necessarily, but for example I archive a lot of artistic reconstructions of Aztec, Maya etc cities, clothing, etc from out of print books, magazines, and the like, and while it's not my content, for me it's much more a thing about using it to educate and to preserve it and make it accessible then it is about trying to get karma or upvotes or likes from it here on reddit or on social media.
I feel like there's a better middle ground between doing nothing and forcing OC only, but I'm also sure you all have a mode team have considered other options already. Still, figured i'd share my opinion.
though I question how many people posting stuff that's not OC is doing it to karma farm vs just posting stuff they think is cute/neat.
how do you think the karma whores become karma whores in the first place? you post a few things you think are cute, you get dopamine from all the upvotes and comments, you do some research, you post more things that you think are cute, you start studying karma patterns, learn which days and times and subs to post in, start looking for more appropriate content strictly to post... there is no dividing line.
Besides, reddit's terms have always prohibited posting content that you do not own or own the rights to, they just don't do any proactive enforcement of it.
Hilarious how fast that moronic protest disappeared 🤣🤣
Excellent change
Imagine if this was the rule of the internet...
Very good! And an automatic repost detection would be great, too. *dreaming*
We have a couple of bots that attempt to detect reposts, but they're far from perfect. There are a few other checks we wish we could automate too, but that would exceed the $0 expense budget that Reddit allots us.
thank god
Hell... It's about damn time.
That’s a really good rule! 🙌
Thank God
FINALLY.
One more thread with annoying music and I would go insane.
But who will farm the karma?
Ee I ee I ooooo
YAY finally!
Long overdue.
Any sub with a rule against including source links but no rules about only posting OC becomes a community about stealing pictures and videos. And karma farming is one of the main reasons to do it.
I hope more subreddits follow suit. Karma farming and bot spam is going to be horrendous now that reddit has monetized gold.
For big communities this only makes sense. For small subs like /r/BuffCats that don't get much content anything would be welcome since posts don't get made daily.
There should be an option for other users to crosspost other users posts into these smaller subs when they feel like they fit well. Kind of like a reblog, so that OC is attributed and you just see who crossposted it
Good call. Here is a sun bear and John Oliver. John is the one on the right… I think?
Mipfar438! I asked for a human suit for when I went down to the planet and you gave me this POS. I got arrested and thrown in one of the open-air jails they call a "zoo". Thank Zalk, one of our other infiltrators recognized me!
They're the same pictures.
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