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Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 28

MareStare

Mare Zealot
Knowing what role a person played in the project is cool just for bookkeeping and historical purposes, but not for indexing purposes. Here’s what I mean by that.
We have a bunch of tags like wings, horn, tail, shirt, desk, open mouth and other minor tags like that which (I think) very rarely get searched for. Meaning people rarely put them into the search box when they come to visit the site and see what new art has been posted, or into the faves and filters. I think very few power users have such specific filters.
Same thing with the creator tags. Very few people care about the role the creator played in the art piece. I think the “creator” tag would have a much greater demand than artist/editor/prompter. I guess it’s fine to keep the “role” tags as metadata facts but at most as best-effort tags. We may not even always know what role people played in the art piece when it gets reposted to tantabus by a 3-rd party who didn’t take part in the creative process. On the contrary I think at least one “creator” tag should be enforced, unless explicit “anonymous creator” or “unknown creator” tag is assigned.

Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 27

tyto4tme4l

Something of an artist
@Scarlet Ribbon
But does an average user care about distinctions like that? Especially if (in the vast majority of cases) “artist”, “prompter” and “editor” would be the same person? I think this distinction is just unnecessary.
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General Discussion » why is everyone so silent online nowdays? » Post 30

Draco Dei

@tyto4tme4l
Precisely, since the goal IS “anyone can illustrate this”, good quality is an added bonus, and the only “ trivial” problems are getting the people with things to say to realize that, and getting the target audience(s) to adjust their expectations for what “I have little artistic talent, but I do have passion to say something” LOOKS like visually.
This thread and/or site could contribute to both of those with some focused intent, but I have pushed “the ball” as far as I can think of how to do (at least for now), and I hope other people pick it up and run with it at least a bit further here.
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Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 26

Scarlet Ribbon

True Wildcard
@Nocturn
I don’t know how others are using them, but I would use them as follows:
artist: A person who creates any input work that is pre-existing art into the AI pipeline
prompter: A person who actually writes the prompt/creates the workflow/engages the AI portion of the process
editor: A person who edits the AI output into a finished product
These are absolutely all useful tags that have no business being removed from stuff, however, they’re only useful if they’re being applied correctly.
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Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 24

Minus

After reading about how ‘effort’ tags already exist, I now fully agree with a “creator” tag. With “Editor” remaining for it’s intended purpose, for when someone else was the prompter.
Edit: If someone puts someone elses generated art back into the ai generator, I assume if the original image is still clearly there, like in cases here people put someone’s generated art into an AI purely to animate it, that the right tag to use would be “creator” for both of them? Or would you use an editor tag for the second prompter? Just unsure if editor is the right tag when it’s the AI doing the editing. This is the one thing I can’t yet wrap my head around to be sure on.

General Discussion » how to link existing pictures like you can on derpi with just mentioning the number of the pic » Post 2

General Discussion » General questions » Post 69

General Discussion » General questions » Post 68

Background Pony #8303
so we all know of cases of artists getting caught using AI. Do you know of cases where someone presented their work as having been done with AI but it was actually done without AI? for context back during the days when CGI was new and exciting, scenes that were made with traditional special effects were sometimes marketed as having been done with CGI
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Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 23

greengeode

Unifying prompter and artist into creator or director, and setting apart editor for third-party edits seems like a good idea.
As someone who came to the platorm quite recently, I found the terms to be quite muddled. prompter implies creator makes a prompt and doesn’t necessarily draw, and artist implies large hand-drawn edits. editor is vague, does painting over a ghost signature make one an editor of their own picture? Or does that constitute being an artist? Or is it too small of a change to warrant a second creator tag at all? Am I an artist if I generate through complex workflow and bake in all the changes there, without touching a graphics editor? If I edit someone else’s work with Photoshop, would that make me an artist in addition to editor?
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Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 22

tyto4tme4l

Something of an artist
@Nocturn
Agreed. We already have “ai generated”, “ai composition” and “ai assisted” tags, so one of them combined with the creator’s tag should be sufficient for pretty much all cases. “editor:” could be used just for someone editing someone else’s work.
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Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 21

Nocturn

Moderator
Adjutant
@Scarlet Ribbon
… what you are doing is effectively removing the entire existence of editor/artist tags …
For this site, can you please describe what you consider to be the difference between editor:* and artist:* tags, or how those tags differentiate either the image or the creator for you, or how they are otherwise meaningful and useful for you here?
I am asking because I do not know how they are different in actual use here, or how they provide any meaning to searches, images, or filters.
Let me describe why I don’t see them being different or having any meaning here.
First, the definition of artist here is: “artist:~~name here~~ — specifies the artist if the work has an original non-AI creator or has significant editing (for example, for ai composition images)”, but in actual use here artist:* is used twice as often on images that are neither ai composition nor ai assisted as it is on images that are.
Instead of finding images with significant editing or based on original human artist works, a search for artist:* here is twice as likely to find a pure ai generated image.
So artist:* is not fulfilling the only actual statement of purpose that I can find here.
editor:* has no definition or use here, and in practice seems to be used based on the source of the image - legacy tags or conventions from other sites - or based on the creator’s own subjective assessment of their effort or ability.
And I just noticed the site suggests creator:your-name for the User Link requests, but there’s only 8 ‘creators’ on the site. Which just makes me feel less like any of this is intentional or providing meaningful data for searches, and is only making it more convoluted to find “images by this specific person”.
So in practice all three of those - artist:*, editor:*, creator:* seem to functionally mean the same thing here. And which one is on an image seems to be completely arbitrary and meaningless.
For me, I would rather search for or follow by:rupert than (prompter:rupert OR artist:rupert), or by:truekry as opposed to (artist:truekry OR prompter:truekry).
Because then I could find or watch or hide “Images by Rupert” or “Images by Truekry” if I wanted with a single tag.
I’m not saying that you don’t find meaning or utility in the editor:* or artist:* tags, especially given how strongly you advocate for them.
But can you please give me an example of how you are actually using those different tags today, in practice, that makes them useful?
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General Discussion » why is everyone so silent online nowdays? » Post 29

tyto4tme4l

Something of an artist
@Background Pony #F22A
I would say there is no need to make up for crappy production values with AI-generated images, since it’s trivial to make good looking, generic pictures, while it takes a bit more effort to create something even amateurish-looking with additional elements added manually. It would be more effort for (arguably) worse result.
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General Discussion » why is everyone so silent online nowdays? » Post 28

General Discussion » why is everyone so silent online nowdays? » Post 27

Kosmo

@Thoryn
99% of the time, my only comment would be “I like this.” - so I just hit the upvote/fav icon instead.
same here, pressing button is way easier than typing something creative in the comments so I leave comments only when I really feel it, like something is really cute or i laugh hard
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Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 20

Background Pony #9429
As long as you don’t switch on using “artist” for non-drawn works I’m fine with whatever. I feel like artist should be reserved for derpibooru.
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General Discussion » why is everyone so silent online nowdays? » Post 26

Background Pony #F22A
prior to ai you would see a lot of poor photoshop/bad ms paint meme things that would make up for their crappy production values with wit and charm. there is very little of that with ai (at least on here) but why is that? it should be easier with the tools that let you doodle the composition no?
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Site and Policy » The tag change post limit problem » Post 5

Admin

Administrator
Also, since I wasn’t aware of the exact numbers myself, reposting from our tech admin…
The limit is 50 tag changes per 10 minutes and 1 rating change per ten minutes, for anonymous and unverified users
In case it’d help with how you manage things for now…
Unfortunately right this moment I don’t think we’re still comfortable with the idea of easing up on these limits; we know that spambots on derpi have been getting more “creative” with their avenues of attack (attacking sources recently), and there’re at least to semi-active tag vandals that affect multiple boorus =/
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Site and Policy » The tag change post limit problem » Post 4

Site and Policy » The tag change post limit problem » Post 3

Background Pony #E53E
As a background pony the limit is hitting me pretty hard. Even limiting myself to the weekly uploads of a single prompter I can’t keep up. I hit the limit every day and more images keep coming that need additional tags.
Today I burned through my day’s allotment just adding ‘male pov’ tags to a recent spate of NSFW images by thefuncave and ran out before I could finish tagging a Spitfire image that needs more specificity.
I think doubling the limit for BGP edits could help ease the burden. Even +50% would make a difference for me.
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Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 19

Scarlet Ribbon

True Wildcard
I think staff need to seriously think about what they’re proposing here: Regardless of the name you ultimately decide on, what you are doing is effectively removing the entire existence of editor/artist tags. You are functionally REMOVING distinctions because a limited number of people don’t want to learn to use the site correctly.
As I mentioned before, adding an additional implied unified tag (credit:xxxxx?) solves both issues.

Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 18

tyto4tme4l

Something of an artist
I think the unification is a good idea. Personally, I lean toward “prompter” as the unified tag, but “creator” would also be fine.
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Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 17

Heat Sink

Moderator
Even with unified tags it is still possible for creators to seperate their art vs edits by just making a second creatpr tag like for example creator:(user) & creator:(user)edits. But with the unified tag we give the creator the choice if they want to have it seperate or combined. Now it feels like it is forced to be seperate.
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Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 16

truekry

Wizzard
@Zerowinger
I guess it makes sense. I guess it’s more of a personal thing as I’m not really comfortable being referred to as a “creator,” when in my opinion I’m not really creating anything. I’m not sketching a start image or editing a traditional art image I made, I’m just entering text into a UI and clicking a button until I get something I like. At best I’ll evolve/duplicate generations and clean them up afterwards, but I still don’t know if that really makes me a creator.
It kind of does, in my opinion. You created the text and you edit. You help in the creative effort and in doing so makes you a creator. We can debate the involvement level needed to define this more but that isn’t the point. That’s was the other ai level tags are for. Creator has a nice ring to it in my opinion.

Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 15

FoalFucker

logically multiple artists tags are pointless when the composition, generated, assisted tags do the same thing. BUT at the same time you should let people be if they really want to hide there low effort work otherwise well just end up with multiple different names for the same creator. But if we do combine, why not just name it artist to standardize?
Also why do we even have an “ai generated” tag when it’s the majority default? If people want to differentiate then we have AI Comp and Assisted. i always forget and so do a lot of others since it doesn’t make sense for an all AI booru.

Site and Policy » Possible change to Creator tags. [Opinions needed] » Post 14

Teaspoon

poni
@LightningBolt
You…assume it’s more common for people to want to follow everything a person makes all at once? ._.;
I mean, yeah? I see it much more likely that someone would go “I want to follow everything this person does” than “I want to follow what this person does except this content type”, and in the latter case I’d expect that person to know how filters and watchlists work.
keeping things as they are creates the least amount of issues
I just really don’t see it that way.
On a personal level, a lot of the stuff I work on, I spend a fair bit of time on, sketch out parts, clean up errors, add in details, splice backgrounds and characters into one image, etc. Others I just get a p.cool looking image out of the gate and just do some minor fixes. Currently I tag both as “prompter” because I can’t be arsed with having two tags (especially when the resulting visual differences between both image types isn’t all that noticeable and I’m pretty much the only one that knows).
And I can just, like, add it to myself. For the average user that wants to have a profile here, they have to request a prompter link. And then an editor link. And maybe an artist link, too. Their profile now has at least 3 different origin tags. Now multiply that by how many other places they post on.
And additionally, the scenario where someone uploads an image they think is one type, but is actually another. To fix it, someone needs to fix both the “artist” tag and the “ai something” tag.
Otherwise, the tags are wrong, as these redundant set of tags have to match. A discordance the site already suffers from.
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