AI Art & Attribution

I don’t know how to say this without sounding petty but this is literally the only example I can think of. This is like when Netflix used to let everyone password share, and then suddenly stopped letting us all do that, and then when people got mad about it they said, “Password sharing was always against our TOS.” Like, yeah, but you always ignored it up until now, and therefore, so did everyone else.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t be punished for legitimate art theft, but an automatic strike seems like complete whiplash considering you never enforced the grey area before. This is why I still think a warning before a strike would be better. Even in real life, people who steal copyrighted material (knowingly or not) are given a DMCA take-down notice beforehand. They’re not automatically sued.

So. I’m not saying I disagree that art theft should be addressed. I’m saying it feels like you guys went from 0 to 100 immediately and therefore I am now too scared to put any art anywhere on my profiles in case, somewhere down the line, I change my avatar or something and forget to credit the artist.

Our language is that art theft is an automatic strike. You have conflated that with "forgetting attribution = automatic strike". Similar to our other policies, we assess rule violations on a case-by-case basis except for cases involving art theft.  If you do not credit appropriately, CMs may have to assume it is art theft. Some members have been generously reminded via PM about our policies, but ultimately it is your responsibility to be aware of and adhere to our rules.  No amount of additional effort, work, or private messages from a Community Manager will change this expectation, and it is not a membership entitlement to receive reminders to follow the rules.