AI Art & Attribution

If I unknowingly receive art that was created using an AI and I credit the artist that made the image, believing they made it themselves, will I still receive a strike even though I wasn't aware of the image's source?

we will handle this on a case-by-case basis, since it seems an unlikely scenario.

If someone uses an AI to create a base image, then edits, manipulates, and builds upon the image to create their own art, is this still disallowed?

this is not allowed, as it is building on somebody else's artwork. if you would like to build on adobe firefly artwork, you may do so as long as the watermark remains intact.

For clarity - if a strike is a warning, does that mean that any violation of any of the policies in the Guidebook/Required Reading is an automatic strike?

art theft has always been an automatic strike. other repeated rule-breaking may be cause for a strike.

If a strike is a warning, why is the nudge system in place? A strike is a punishment, not a warning.

the nudge system is for player-to-player interaction to express preferences. getting one (or even two) strikes has no effect on a player. only when you have accumulated three strikes does anything happen, and we are very clear on that when players receive strikes.

it is a change in stance, as you acknowledged in the first post, because this rule was previously unenforced.

we have always given strikes for (known) art theft. it is the unknown part that we are being more thorough with now.