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Reading your AI policy. If self-tagged AI content is demoted, why would an unscrupulous creator ever self-tag? If the penalty for getting caught is just an AI tag, why would the kind of creator who uses GenAI ever voluntarily tag?

They may not want to do it, but if it is discovered it will be done for them in a way they can't revert, and they will be warned. Doing it again can result in further action, like potentially being removed from the platform.

This seems like so much extra work when you could just say “no genai” and skip the step of creating negative incentives. What you describe here is the exact same level of policing that you’d have to do for a no genai policy.

But you see how that’s a problem regardless? Right? In both cases you have a problem with honesty, you’re just setting up a system where there’s a negative incentive built into the platform that makes people not want to mark their game truthfully. AND then you have the policing work on top.

If you were just not permissive to start, there would probably still be some games that do it but the recourse would ALWAYS be removal and you at least have a concrete policy to point to. Also let’s not pretend that in either of these situations AI art/text witch hunts are a healthy thing.

If you’re going to be permissive of AI it would arguably be better to just have a toggle that doesn’t create the negative incentives for people to try and hide it. At least then you’re incentivizing honesty at a platform level so it’s actually up to the consumer.