ADD Do Not Show "AI Generated" Filter on Marketplace
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lifeon13 Resident
Please add a required bool while creating a Marketplace listing that asks the creator to disclose if AI generative tools were used in part/all of the products creation. Add this bool to the 'Do Not Show' section of the Marketplace search filter. Allow listings to be reported if they do not honestly disclose this.
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For the health of the market we need the use of AI tools to be disclosed by creators.
I would prefer personally that no AI generation be supported. I understand that tolorance of it is an effort to avoid censorships slippery slope, and is complicated by the sheer variation of AI tools that currently exist. But regardless of opinions or complications, it's existance cannot be ignored.
So lets focus on what can be done, by giving some power of choice to the consumer instead.
Users should be provided a way to choose products with or without AI generation while shopping, and naturally creators who choose not to disclose or to lie should face the same reportability and moderation as any other creator that would choose to lie while listing.
The moderation half of this should not necessarily focus on trying to prove the use of AI gen tools, it doesn't actually need to. Creators who have done the work to provide support and actually prepare the AI generated content for its use in SL are unlikely to warrent being reported, and should not need to lie about the useage anyway. It is products that blatantly lack support, have egregious LOD & LI values that would be inclined to lie, and would want to be reported by users, this is the same for ANY product currently listed.
If you buy it, and you don't get what was described, it should be reportable, the same goes for AI generated products, AI generated should not get a pass because you have to 'prove' something first, when the fact remains that you didn't get what thought you bought.
So do not focus on "did you use a tool?" focus on "can you fix & support the product?" If it can't be supported, then disclose it was made via AI generation and move on.
This is a similar complication to full perm and gacha resales, but also ripped models, copybot etc, in they will all lack support due to not being made directly by the creator of the listing. There is a big difference between fullperm & gacha resale vs ripping & botting, and that difference is honest disclosure.
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DreamWalker McCallister
Until LL addresses this huge oversight, one workaround is to use Ublock Origin browser extension to HIDE search results from sellers whose products you don't want to see.
Personally, I do this to block dozens of A.I. slop sellers, those that use deceptive A.I. photos, and all gacha stuff.
I won't post any example custom filters here, as they may not be allowed by the PowersThatBe.
Lettie Linden
Merged in a post:
Require Mandatory Disclosure and Labeling Identifying Sales Goods Created in Whole or Part with Generative AI
Mao Lemieux
Let's invent a label - something simple, like "GenAI was used in whole or part in this object's manufacture" and then /require/ creators/vendors to label all of their relevant sales items with it.
Let this label also be a tag or flag as part of an object's or sales vendor's properties, so that Residents don't have to struggle to know if an object is GenAI-"containing."
Let this also be a tag or flag on the MP and in any other searchable interface where it makes sense to exist, so that Residents may include or exclude GenAI items in their search results.
GenAI is not going anywhere. The ethics of its use are a separate matter. But Residents have a right to be informed of the tool's use in the creation of their purchased items, just as we have a right to know whether a food IRL has been genetically modified. Let Residents be advised of the use of GenAI to create purchasable goods, and thereby purchase according to their own preference.
Please disregard, and accept my apology, if this issue has already been discussed/addressed. Thank you.
Danika Ravenwood
There has been SO MANY scam listings/straight up stolen products being sold by obscene amounts of lindens with AI generated ads that it turned searching anything in marketplace into a nightmare. It's absurd that those listings are still up and that we can't hide AI products.
Zandrae Nova
Danika Ravenwood It is an absolute nightmare.
lifeon13 Resident
We are now march 2026, and since this and other similar proposals has been made, the state of the SL market has become a nightmare for buyers to navigate.
Multiple of the marketplace categories are overrun with thousands of AI created products that users are not interested in. I have experienced and heard shared experiences from other creators that their marketplace have been receiving less and less activity, especially related to texture, decor, and animesh related products. And while the scope of this suggestion did not include user run sale events, those have also become saturated with AI content that is pushing creators out of SL itself at an aggressive pace. Shopping sims once filled with waiting lists now have empty rentals.
Land rentals are being canceled, brands shutting down, and users are giving up browsing, this will continue to break down the community if not given any kind of guideline or rules.
For new readers, I appreciate the support and this thread is still open to suggestions on methods of how AI created content should be moderated and what kind of guide lines you would personally enjoy seeing.
For those that use AI to create content, please also browse and see that your side HAS been considered, this is not calling for a complete AI content ban as I am AWARE this is too harsh a rule to set (Even if personally I cannot see the benefit or longevity of AI generation), rather if you do genuinely us Gen AI, and do genuinely work to prepare it for use in SL at the same quality as other products; disclosure should NOT hurt you. You will never gain a loyal custom by deception, the first step to legitimizing these tools will always be honesty and openness.
I would like to see Gen AI turned sustainable and non-destructive with curated personal databases for creation, my negativity and wish to not engage with Gen AI is based on the fact no sustainable version exists yet. Thank you for reading!
Zandrae Nova
lifeon13 Resident At this point, with ai slop invading the marketplace and everything else, it's really not worth it to create for SL anymore.
Cynos3D Resident
Seems reasonable, i choose to support artists that put in the effort to learn and develop their craft, it's a process that should be respected and encouraged.
People should be able to find out without having to jump through hoops what's been created by a person they can connect to and grow with versus something generated by a machine without the foggiest clue as to any of the processes involved to create evocative art and optimized assets.
You're free to choose your methods of content creation but that doesn't mean people have to support them blindly, it's a wholly personal choice and I think giving people the means to make informed decisions is essential for the integrity of our society.
Tetsuryu Vlodovic
I believe you should be able to filter AI generated content for the same reason all the other filters that already exist are in place; to make the browsing experience less tedious and unpleasant.
People already use photoshop or filters or whatever to glow up their products in photos but least those technically still represent what you're getting, but using AI generated images in place of actual pictures of the product (which probably just turns out to be a repackaged freebie from 15 years ago) should 100% not be allowed at all.
But on top of that I also find that AI has especially had a huge impact on certain categories, especially textures since anyone can just generate them with AI and throw them on the marketplace, problem is that I now have to wade pages upon pages to find the ones that are actually made by a person, so I do think you should be able to filter them out.
Devilgrey Resident
at least when it comes to ai-enhanced listing images, it creates a unrealistic expectation of how things actually look inworld. i've seen so many posts on the SL reddit where someone wants to recreate a look in sl, but the image used ai to doctor it up.
I think it's important consumers know what they are looking at, whether a listing uses ai, so they can make conscious choices to buy or not. labels should be required if a product used ai during it's creation, or if the listing image was enhanced with ai. There can probably be different labels to distinguish between the two. AI filters to exclude or included these listings should be a option as well.
Zepeto, Steam, and other platforms have ai-labels or ai-filters, so it would be great if it was finally implemented within SL MP.
Devilgrey Resident
similar requests for ai policies/labels:
Devilgrey Resident
similar requests for ai policies/labels:
Dana Enyo
As these discussions often do, it's gone WAY off the rails. But as of 25 Sept I've not seen a single argument against some kind of mandatory disclosure, imperfect as it might be.
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