this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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To the several people who reported this post:
This community does not have a ban on AI generated images. Especially ones as silly and harmless as this.
Should a user abuse AI generated images, such as spamming them, then action will be taken against them. But one-off silly images like this are fine.
There are ethical concerns with the use of AI, especially image generation.
c/dogs has a strict no AI policy, and it seems to be appreciated by our users.
This decision should be reconsidered and I would downvote if my instance allowed. Almost every comment is against it here.
I prefer to allow posts with controversial subjects that don't otherwise violate any rules, such as AI generated images, because it allows for important conversations.
I would rather allow the occasional AI image be posted so that people can discuss why AI images are bad.
I'll argue that this is a cat community, not an AI discussion community.
There isn't anything wrong with a comment section discussing a subject related to the post even if that subject isn't what the community is about.
If someone posted a picture of a cat-shaped pizza then it'd be fine for that post's commenters to discuss pizza in general.
This take is this community's equivalent to the sole c/dogs mod (who very recently took over) banning people for putting up facts about pitbulls: pitiful
Good rule.