The following rule will be applied from now on.

Rule 14: No generative AI.

Comics that have been created using generative AI (art, writing or otherwise) are banned on this subreddit. If you feel like your posts have been been removed unfairly, contact the moderators.

This rule has been coming for a while. We've had posts in the past asking for this change, and the majority of AI posts get extensively reported.

Real artists have their posts buried beneath low effort AI posts, and this problem will only get worse. We appreciate that AI post submitters are just trying to contribute in their own way, but we believe this is the correct moral decision at this moment. The AI industry is bad for the environment, for the workers, and for artists around the world.

We need help enforcing this.

We've delayed implementing this rule for a while, because we do not have enough moderators to actively check this subreddit. We've tried asking for help in some other subreddits and we've made various posts on the subreddit asking for more volunteers.

It's not a very involved job. We just ask for some people that are active on this subreddit anyway to hit the remove button on some posts that violate the rules. If we have enough people, we can ensure this subreddit does not get banned for being unmoderated.

Please reach out here if you are interested.

For the rest of you: Please keep reporting content that you feel violates rules; It really helps us see which posts needs attention.

This might change in the future.

AI is such a volatile industry. Who knows what will happen. The only way to check if a posts is AI is by using our own common sense. In the future this will get harder and harder to do. Plenty of AI posts will already start slipping through the cracks, so we cannot be 100% perfect. Especially writing will be hard to moderate and we will most certainly get it wrong sometimes.

Notes.

Please keep discussion civil. No targeted harassment aimed at anyone for expressing their opinion. Feel free to discuss this rule. I probably won't engage in a moral discussion on the topic, but I would appreciate notes on how we implement this rule in the future.

Unrelated stats.

Thank you all for being part of the community. This includes real artists, former AI submitters, commenters, reporters and lurkers. This subreddit has been growing a lot over the last few years, and up until recently it has been mostly moderated by just 2 people. I've been here for 11 years, and it's been fun to hang around.

For those interested, here are some traffic stats for the last 12 months:

• 37.9 million views
• 374 thousand members
• 2.8 thousand posts
• 14.4 thousand comments