■■■■ just got real. Hoes involved.
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That reads like a question from and economics exam for pimps.
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I salute to you and your service
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I took a look and it seems that, apart from the main image being wayyyyy out of proportion, the models have a printed photo.
Did you report the entire account or a specific model?
entire account, main reason is most of them are very misrepresented in size. The santa one for example is several times the size of some champers but the file fits on a normal bed
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I don’t get it, everybody is having trouble getting successful reports, except for me. If you need a description, just write, “No model photo,” copy and paste it, and use it over and over again for an hour. Btw, report the model not print profile.
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This was done in 10 minutes. I couldn’t show what I did after an hour.
Should add filtering for results to only show non ai models and you should require ai models to be marked as such, like many other platforms do.
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Is there tracking for PrintMon models to see if they are quicker than the print time? Seems like it would be easy to check automatically.
try adding reCAPTCHA to makerworld
reCAPTCHA is a bad solution to a problem.
Solutions shouldn’t force negative side-effects on every other user and in particular on those with disabilities.
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Like an invasive species it’s too late. We (I and many others?) saw it coming and warned.
AI creation should be required to have a watermark that cannot be removed.
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AI creation should be required to have a watermark that cannot be removed.
Unfortunately that isn’t ever going to be practically useful: one of the early successes for the current AI wave (then called “machine learning” but that phrase fell out of fashion) was context aware fill and similar techniques, which are particularly good at the removal of watermarks.
Unfortunately AI is now a Tool to help people create things quicker than they could before, just as products like ZBrush, Maya, Blender etc… Just as you can get Addons to help create objects quicker and easier within the tools above, AI is just another tool to help.
You can’t ask Makerworld to crack down on objects created by AI when Makerworld has its OWN AI Tools in MakerLab?
IF you don’t like an AI generated Object, you do not have to download or click on it, just scroll past it OR use the search to find something specific.
You can’t blame people who are using a Tool to help them produce a 3D Object quicker than you can, when you are probably using software tools that many cannot use, which up until now, you yourself have been able to create objects easier and quicker than many others could?
Just as you add TAGS to Models/Profiles when you upload, maybe there should be a question about the Object being created using AI? OR at least TAGGED as such? That way you could Filter such objects out?
Having said that, the following should also be filtered out: Hueforge objects, 2D models such as keychains, simple signs, Lithopanes, etc…
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A tool to improve things not a replacement for effort.
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The problem sometimes is that the models some of us are trying to avoid fill the search results obscuring the others. We are lazy and don’t want to scroll two pages to find the first item that matches our desire.
Some sort of filter on such items, that remained on until turned off again, would be lovely. For those that say is isn’t fair to screen their work out: the default would be to show all, and there would be an option for just AI in case people are for some reason looking for that.
Unfortunately such a filter would require the uploaders correctly flag the models so that they can be reliably judged, so it would not be in BBLs interest to add such a filter: it failing to work due to incorrect entries would get blamed on the filter not the uploaders.
Perhaps a crowd-sourced solution in one of the MakerWorld browser extensions would be a practical alternative? Though that is the community doing the work, and would have a pile of moderation issues to deal with people placing false “is AI” flags to try boost their work by defaming others…
Unless there is some penalty for not flagging as such, or flagging incorrectly, such questions will be ignored by many uploaders, including the non-AI ones, so the filter would not have good data to work on.
Again, such filters would be very nice. Sometimes I’m specifically looking for keychains, sometimes a pile of them are in the way when I’m looking for something bigger. I see more unwanted Hueforge entries than AI ones (though very occasionally I’m actually looking for something like that so I’d like them to be there to be found). But again, such filters require correct metadata about each upload. Maybe crowd-sourcing is the only way to practically implement this, and that could be quite a project for someone to write and maintain (I’m capable, but I certainly don’t have the spare time and I’m unlikely to in the months/years to come!).
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Is a CAR a Tool or a replacement of Effort?
Just as a car allows you to get to places quicker than walking, AI allows you to create objects quicker than manually creating them.
I myself use AI to create 2D and 3D images, music, songs, Lyrics, modify images/photos, etc… BUT, I still spend plenty of time to enhance, refine, add detail etc… AI is just another tool to help me get to where I need to be quicker.
A car doesn’t flood my MyTrails search results with car friendly routes when I’m looking for a mountain walk 
AI allows you to create objects quicker than manually creating them
I think the problem that many have isn’t absolutely AI (though they often state it as such) but the lazy use of AI. If someone has used AI to make a model, actually printed it to make sure it works and turns out well, maybe made alterations to improve the details, and included a picture of the real print for those considering the design to judge it by, then that to me is a valid use of AI to save time.
Similarly, using AI to enhance a manual design rather than create one from scratch can be valid to.
Unfortunately a lot of AI designs are people banging out quick prompts and uploading the result to try get points on the system rather than wanting to design things people find useful.
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Bad analogy.
The question should be focussed as follows:
If AI is used to make some or all of a model, it is AI and should be classified as such so those who prefer to work with crafted, human-designed models can do so.
People use craftspeople for their skills, not random things that appear as models.
If it is used as a tool to bridge two shapes, that might be OK, that is a tool.
If it is the source of the creation or a substantial part of it, then it isn’t craftwork, it is guesswork.
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