AI Art & Attribution

Hey, WOLFers! We've got a couple announcements today concerning artwork.

AI Art

After much deliberation, the CM team has settled on an official stance for AI art use on the site. Due to the high likelihood of these programs using art without the consent of artists, as well as controversy surrounding AI art and copyright infringement, we will no longer be permitting AI art at WOLF and it will be treated similar to art theft going forward. Our policy on art theft is as follows:

Art theft is STRICTLY prohibited on Wolf. Unless you commissioned the piece or have permission to use it, do not display artwork on your wolf’s profile or avatar. This includes work from third party sites (such as Wolvden). Doing so will result in an automatic strike.

There is one exception. Because it is ethically trained on open source and Adobe licensed images only, we will permit AI art generated by Adobe Firefly. For this artwork to pass muster, the Adobe Firefly watermark must be intact and visible.

Art Credit

To go along with the above and to create a standard across the site, we are adjusting our policy on art credit. Our current policy is as follows:

Any artwork on your profile (if not created by you) must have clear attribution.

Our enforcement of this rule has been inconsistent and it is becoming too difficult for us to determine whether uncredited art was created by the player or another artist. Going forward, we require clear attribution for all artwork, no matter who created it. You may use the Art Credit field in your profile, or give credit directly below the artwork, or have a list of credits in your Player Notes, but all artwork must be credited somewhere in the location it is used and the credit must be visible, i.e. not hidden behind a hover code. Intact and readable signatures / watermarks on images will suffice as credit.

Additionally, we are asking that players do their best to credit photography used for avatars or references. We understand that many roleplayers have years worth of wolf photos saved on their computers and may be unable to track down the original photographer to give credit, but where possible, we ask that players give the same consideration to photos as you do artwork and make an effort to use Creative Commons compliant photographs with appropriate credit.

While these changes are in effect starting today and will be checked during approval for new accounts, existing active accounts have until September 22, 2023 to add art credits and remove AI art not created via Adobe Firefly. After this date, if we see uncredited artwork or AI art without the Firefly watermark on an active account, you will be subject to an art theft strike and removal of the artwork. Inactive accounts will not be checked until they reactivate, so please make sure to check over your profiles and add missing credits before submitting for reactivation!

Please reach out if you have any questions or concerns about these updates.