Allow for reporting AI generated content marketplace listings or Video game model theft.
Skullphern Resident
Every day I watch the "complete avatars" category on the marketplace
Every day there's 5 new avatars, all game model rips, generated image ads, generated 3D model avatars, or a swath of wrongly categorized low effort AI content.
There's a few small number of users uploading a massive amount of marketplace listing, all mass uploaded game rips, or generated avatars, so much so, that it completely overshadows any genuinely created user content.
I used to look forward to seeing artistic creations, or originality, inventiveness and ingenuity.
Now all I see is 100 low effort avatars, and 1 genuine avatar rarely posted once a month.
Why would this suggestion help?
1.) Lowers mass storage of irrelevant content
2.) Creates relevance, and helps with the tagging system as a whole, enriching user interaction with the marketplace as a whole
3.) Allows for more creative content with worth and depth.
I know there has been a few posts on this already, but quickly the marketplace has become the last place people are wanting to look when purchasing things from other users;
it lowers profit, it lowers worth, it lowers desire to even use the platform.
more and more people are choosing to only go to events instead of even looking at the marketplace.
its quickly becoming almost useless for its intended purpose, if everything on there is just 1000 bland badly rigged fortnite avatars, game imports or randomly generated AI characters, again badly rigged.
Quality over quantity, any day, please.
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Prokofy Neva
Your comment and proposal were made back in March 2026, and I think you need to revisit your searches and discover whether this claim is still relevant. In fact, LL has summarily banned more than a dozen full-perm resellers in the last year, some of them very famous with a lot of sales, some newer and less known, some with very obvious knock-offs of famous Disney/Pixar/anime/etc characters, and some with seemingly more original figurines which were in fact swiped from 3D mesh sites. There was no recourse, the stores, MP, and avatars were all permanently removed and banned.
Interestingly, LL left in our inventories the wares these creators sold under their own TOS licenses, which mandated no full-perm resale. And in a way they had to do this or they would have a riot on their hand with all the numerous secondary creators using these models in their own complex creations for resale on no-transfer.
I like shopping for this kind of content and it doesn't bother me if I see it on a search although I don't want any Disney/Pixar etc knockoffs whatsoever. But precisely because I search for and buy these types of goods, I don't want a massive "block states I hate with AI generated content" that will drive down these merchants still remaining in search results. Furthermore, when I search for random items, despite that tend to deliberately search among AI-generated creations *I do not see the claimed AI Slop everywhere". That's important for the haters to hear: your personal experience is not the norm and not shared by everyone. I see a wide variety of content and I don't blocking of merchants which will then create an unfair advantage of the "unblocked" and drive down results of those blocked. There is nothing "useless" about MP search. Refine your terms. Use the filters. It works great. No one requires you to look at much less buy anything "badly rigged" -- scroll on by to the next page.
No gatekeeping by small vocal lobbyists -- leave the SL Marketplace free and accessible to all without censorship. If you see some actual case of suspected theft or spam, report it using the existing tools instead of asking for blanket ban tools.
Tech Robonaught
The entity that reports the copyright infringement has to be the copyright holder. As is should be. One individual I know stated "It's on his computer so he owns it" (not true) but that's the attitude we see.
I for one, purchase everything now, I don't rely on game rips, which btw is a wildly over-used term. I for example can have a model I purchased (with a license) that looks like the original, just like a "game rip" perhaps so much so that it would take the copyright holder to spot the differences. Also not sure but there used to be a percentage rule, if x% of the item was modified, (mesh textures whatever) it would pass as a new creation. Not sure if that still exists or not, you'ld have to ask LL.
Marketplace used to have it where anyone could submit those claims ... I'm pretty sure that was a big mess and a hassle for them, so it's good that it's been changed.
LL is making their money off of Marketplace, so don't worry about them, if they weren't it would be gone in a heartbeat.
Prokofy Neva
Tech RobonaughtThe claims are vastly overstated, and are based on fear of competition and vaunted aesthetics that not everyone shares.
Weats Fairelander
The existence of the new ai "3d printer" in sl might also make a mess, as you'll have people who can't build themselves generating a ton of structurally junky models that could make things more laggy. Idk if they can sell them from that but that would also be a problem.
ozzy Sirenz
if it's a copy rt issue then. needs to be removed.but people can buy rights to so call other games meshes. if a person pays for those rts then sl should do nothing. .a.i is not just the future but it's already here. my advise to everyone is to use a.i to assist in their creation. and buy the correct license for mesh. meaning the right to use for commercial use. and for textures or images a.i generated is legal in the court of laws as long as the creator is using the true creators permission. plain and simple. you need to update your building tools or get left behind.
Coyote Enthusiast
There is various feedback requests requesting that AI content be marked as AI content, however video game model rips are a different story here.
The issue is that under the DMCA safe harbor rules, platforms are protected as long as they respond to copyright complaints rather than actively policing all content themselves. If Linden Lab starts proactively moderating for copyright violations, it could make it easier to argue they have knowledge or control over infringement, which could weaken their safe harbor protections and expose them to legal risk.
In addition, there are cases where content that looks like a "rip" may actually be authorized. A copyright holder may have released assets under a license such as CC-BY-NC or similar terms, or may have given permission to a specific person to redistribute or sell their work. In those situations, proactive removals by Linden Lab could result in legitimate content being taken down incorrectly, since Linden Lab would not necessarily have a way to verify the license status without a report from the rights holder.
You may be interested in these feedback posts:
Skullphern Resident
Coyote Enthusiast I agree and its unfortunate. But in the case of "things looking like game rips but aren't" when you find a store that mass uploads T posing models on green screens with an upload rate of like 3 avatars a day, you KNOW its not viably a creator making them from scratch, especially when going for a year straight
that being said though, I get how that would be a problem with people who have a style, or quality that could be mistaken for that, which would suck.
Devilgrey Resident
Coyote Enthusiast here's also two more threads regarding ai on the marketplace & sl too:
Prokofy Neva
Coyote Enthusiast I'm all for redacting Section 230 in the liberal variant to stop enabling platforms to escape the liabilities that older media like newspapers, magazines, and broadcast TV have to maintain in compliance with US law on libel, non-protected speech like incitement to violence, obscenity, etc.. For too long, the platforms have had a pass, serving up content and making money from ads and subscriptions, but bouncing all content problems back to users. Two new cases against Meta involving children are going to change the landscape; one ruling that caused Meta to have to pay a big fine in Arkanas is replicating and now a group of states attorneys general are suing Meta on the grounds that they deliberately entice and retain minors and cause harm. Lawsuits are always the method of changing practice in the US and this will have an impact, whether Section 230 is badly or more liberally redacted. As I noted above, I do not want AI screens and net-nannying re: the AI issues on the Marketplace. The solution is to use existing filters, or go to a feed like SecondPix whic consciously bans the use of AI and serves up offerings from bloggers and merchants without the use of AI, which essentially constitutes a boutique marketplace of its own, through the use of tags and links to direct shopping inworld or on the Marketplace. The solution for the AI hysteria is in such boutiques. Go to them. Pay for them, as they will cost you money. Browse them for the pristine experience you seek. And leave the SL Marketplace free and accessible for all.