Reddit’s AI porn ban has a carveout for Rule 34
by Sean Hollister from The Verge - All Posts on (#6CS12)
Reddit has crushed the biggest protest in its history. What's next? Make AI-generated porn legal again, apparently - as long as it's not deepfaked. Today, Reddit has added an explicit carveout to its Content Policy that allows AI-generated sexual media that depicts fictional people or characters."
Some backstory: In 2018, Reddit was among the many platforms that banned deepfake AI porn communities, declaring that involuntary pornography" was not okay. Specifically, Reddit modified its Rule 3 to ban depictions of nudity or sexual contact that may have been faked."
But as of 2018, Reddit left an explicit carveout for porn distributed with a sexual worker's consent - and today, Reddit has added another carveout for AI-generated sexual...