PukupukuDragon

Stable Diffusion image generation, LLM-written code, machine learning evolutionary algorithms, etc all count. Absolutely anything that's ever touched a neural network within the mod itself or its mod page, no exceptions. It's like the "no politics" or "don't be rude" policies some communities follow. Obviously some politics are going to be less controversial, like telling people to plant trees or feed the poor. And if someone is bullying, it is more socially acceptable to be rude to them to defend someone. But when you add qualifiers to rules people will bend and twist and argue about them. It's just easier to just say "tag AI content" even if that's a very broad term spanning a multitude of technologies and ethicalities.

We need a checkbox, toggle or personal user blocklist that lets us filter out mods in the database created using AI. I'm returning to this game after a year or two and the amount of AI-illustrated thumbnail slop that has swamped the database is appalling. Several communities in Thunderstore have already enacted a policy where you must self-tag your mod "AI Generated" or it is removed. This solution satisfies both parties: the ones who don't want to see it and the ones who don't care. It's going to be necessary for game modding communities to have this going forward so users don't have to wade through the slop mire to find quality content. I understand Vintage Story has a smaller modding community and being as inclusive as possible is a priority but the longer a policy like this is put off the harder it will become to clean the database up later. Please do something about this. My suggestion is to have a report button on mods that lets users flag them for review by the admins. Any mods posted/updated before the policy get the tag applied and a warning sent to the author. Any mods updated after the policy get removed.