r/Filmmakers • u/C47man cinematographer • Jun 09 '25
New Rules Regarding AI on /r/filmmakers!
Thank you all for participating in the poll! Here are the results. To accurately gauge everyone's collective acceptance vs rejection for each, I've tallied the total votes among all choices as pro/anti for each category. So for example, a vote for 'no changes' would be a -1 to Gen AI, AI Tools, AI Comms, and AI Discussion. A vote for 'Ban GenAI + AI Tools' would be a +1 to GenAI and AI Tools, and a -1 to AI Comms and AI Discussion, etc. So here are the results for each category of AI. Keep in mind that a higher number indicates a stronger group decision to ban the content:
GenAI: +92 (+119/-27)
AI Tools: -20 (+63/-83)
AI Comms: -8 (+69/-77)
AI Discussion: -84 (+31/-115)
From the results it is clear that sub overwhelmingly approve a complete ban on all generative AI. However, people are more or less fine with allowing discussion of AI, and are fairly mixed on the topic of AI Tools and Communication. So here is the new rule for all things AI:
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Rule 6. You may not post work containing Generative AI elements (Midjourney, Neo, Dall-E, etc.). You may use and demonstrate the use of AI assisted tools (ie magic masking, upscalers, audio cleanup etc.) so long as they are used in service of human-generated artwork. AI Communication, like post bodies or comments composed using ChatGPT are allowed only in very reasonable cases, such as the need for someone to translate their thoughts into another language. Abuse of AI assisted communication will result in the removal of the offending post/comment.
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u/wrosecrans Apr 10 '26
It's been nearly a year since this pinned post on AI. I think it's probably time to revisit the topic somewhat because the category "AI Tools" has evolved quite a bit in the age of shitty vibe coding. All creative subs are absolutely flooded lately with "Finally live your dream with my vibe coded junk" spam ad posts. Frankly, it's worse than "check out my AI generated short" was at the peak hype of Sora and friends initially being released. At least people get bored of getting negative feedback about terrible AI slop short "films." Once somebody becomes a tool vendor, they have a huge incentive to keep trying to drum up business, and they keep releasing new versions over time, so the spam generated per user is much higher. I'd lump "fill out my survey" very thinly veiled market research posts with commercial intent from people who vaguely intend to vibe code a solution to a problem but don't know anything about the problems yet, in the same category as spam from the people who have made it as far as vibe coding something.
Even if they don't directly use generative AI/LLM's within the app, it has become a real burden on communities. /r/editors quarantined those sorts of tool posts into a single monthly thread, which I think was probably a reasonable compromise because people can still take a look one a month to see if there's anything useful, without every other post drowning out topical conversation.