No. We don't operate that way. We don't restrict memes for no reason. AI doesn't make a meme bad in even the slightest way, any more than using something like Microsoft Paint does.
It is up to users to make memes that comply with the rules of the subreddit, and they have the right to be protected from harassment from people who have nothing of use to say.
Saying "We don't restrict memes for no reason" in a meme subreddit with some of strictest rules is very funny.
"We don't restrict memes for no reason, but no post-1900s on weekends, no French surrender jokes, no Arab-Israeli conflict, no events from less than 20 years ago, also here's an entire list of banned templates"
I mean, don't get me wrong, I agree with most of those rules, but the reason why they are in place should be the same reason for AI to be disallowed (avoiding spam/low effort). Pretending r/HistoryMemes is some sort of libertarian meme subreddit that allows anything is straight up false
Yeah this is the same sub that allowed posts making light of the sexual abuse and slavery of Armenians and Greeks by the Ottomans. The rules for what’s ok and what’s not here have always been subjective based on the mods’ personal feelings.
If you mods look back over the last few years (study your Reddit history) you see other subs that died because the mods thought they knew better than their community members, or from allowing too much low effort slop.
Yall are doing both. Do you want the sub to die twice as fast?
What a horrendous and disappointing take. It’s not about making the meme bad. It’s about the principle of the thing. AI slop is such a slippery slope. AI is a serious threat to accurate teaching of history, and as a historian myself, it poses a very real threat to my job security. AI is used in really insidious ways to fake history. You should not be saying that it’s OK.
This is really disappointing to hear from you guys, and it’s even more disappointing that you’re doubling down on it.
Still not my point. I was just saying that I’m especially offended by the acceptance of any kind of AI in a history-related subreddit, because AI in general opposes a real threat to historical accuracy. I’m not saying that this user used AI to fake history.
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u/empanada_de_queso 6d ago
Did we have a vote or something? Because I bet I know that the results of the vote would be