AI Art & Attribution

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

It is a bit concerning to me to think that someone can get a strike for not crediting their own art work, tbh. I can understand most of the changes but this seems overly harsh to me.

Hey, don't worry! There's a grace period so everyone can adjust to the updated requirements. We've had an increasing amount of art theft, so we want to make sure we're protecting artists.

To be clear, the Guidebook has always required art credit; what is new is now personal art must also have credit. We felt this stance needed to be made more clear than it was previously in the Guidebook. All art not made by your own person has always required credit.  Our policy and enforcement on art theft has not changed - this has always been an automatic strike.  In the event of a strike (for this or anything else), a player is always welcome to reach out to discuss if they feel the process was unfair.

The part that concerns me is the possibility of a strike for art theft where no actual art theft has occurred. In cases where someone has paid for or made the art but failed to add credit, it's not theft. A warning system would be more fitting, in my opinion, even if it's just a single warning

Also, I have some art I bought years ago from artists who didn't require credit & I no longer have their names saved. Is that going to be considered art theft?

Our policy on art theft has been the same for years. Nothing has changed on this end. What has changed is we are now requiring members who made their own art to credit themselves on their profile. This is a very small ask, and it is in direct relation to the increase in art theft we’ve handled on WOLF and multiple artist concerns about theft in general. In an effort to be more consistent with our art credit policy, we’re now requiring all art to be credited at all times regardless if you’re the artist of it or not. This is so there is zero confusion about our crediting requirements.

If you don’t know the artist, don’t use the art. You can always ask members in the Discord to help you track down the artist so you can appropriately credit. Again, crediting other people for their art has always been required so this scenario would have been handled the same before today as it is being handled after today.

For the record — a strike is our warning. You get three of them before you are banned from WOLF.