Yes, it would need some sort of anti-spam. Perhaps you need to connect a phone number of some sort, idk. I personally don’t want to deal with it, but someone might.
I came here to ask about which AI STL sites are the best, but now I feel bad. Your points are good. However, I design my stuff in Fusion 360 from scratch, or I purchase commercial licenses. I can’t do organic things like rocks, plants, animals. I was hoping to use AI to generate some components (like boulders) that I would use as part of my design.
It really sucks that people are generating the entire model and posting it like it’s an accomplishment. BOOOOO! That really puts a damper on Makerworld.
Rather than looking for AI generated organic models, you should look into Blender and using plugins. If you’ve got your head around fusion, blender isn’t too big of a leap. You can get some really good plugins that let you generate stuff like stone, trees, etc
How about people stealing models, modify them with AI and then release them as their own? 
It is more likely that the two accounts belong to the same person and are posting the same design but with different qualities. When you ask the AI for a model, it gives you several models, usually four, and you choose the best one, but you can choose all four if you want and upload them to different accounts.
It could be this, or maybe two people are asking for the same thing and the AI is trolling them a little. 
I completely agree with the outrage. But it’s a general problem. AI-generated articles, reviews, photos, graphics, animations and video ads (Temu for example). Is there any way to detect AI-generated models? It’s worse than Tweet bots.
Oh it’s awful. Across the board.
I use to really enjoy listening to reddit stories on youtube while I worked. Recently though I’ve noticed a high influx of AI generated stories. It isn’t super obvious all the time, but it’s one of those things. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Once I started to realize the patterns, it just started to make them stand out even more. It has completely ruined it for me. I really don’t like those AI stories. They don’t come across as realistic at all and the little inconsistences bug me. They stand out like warts on the face pulsating ooze.
I mean, people made up and reposted stories on reddit, so it’s not like it was all fun and games before, but now it’s just… everything is AI. Ugh.
I’ve seen it elsewhere too. Like you look on pinterest and certain topics are just a flood of AI generated slop. I hate it. These images look nice, but if you actually start to break things down, they’re awful, unrealistic. You know, like looking for inspiration on how to organize, and it’s like these images, they’re just… I’d rather see someone’s actual setup rather than some computer’s LSD dream of what it thinks a beautifully organized room looks like. It may look cool surface level, but if you dig deeper, it’s just junk.
Or on etsy, starting to see like AI generated woodworking plans. Like really?! And the reviews on them. I can’t believe people buy them. Like sorry dude. But the reviews, with people going like wtf even is this? A confusing instruction set that just… ugh.
sorry, I’m ranting. AI can be an awesome tool, but it has completely ruined a lot of stuff too. The badly generated AI content is so bad and so prevalent. It just floods everything. I just don’t even engage certain things anymore because of the flood of poorly done AI. It’s too much to sit there and try to wade through.
I don’t like that here on Makerworld either. I don’t think it’s as bad as it can be, but there’s been times it’s just uggh. Does anyone actually spend any time putting effort into anything more, or are we just doomed to slide to the bottom of the AI barrel? The poorly deformed and defined bottom because AI generated the thing and no one bothered to give a damn if it was actually done right.
Then the AI “artist” that’ll sit there and cry like they’re real artist too and demand to be respected. No, you’re just a low tier snake oil salesman trying to con people for points. Don’t give me that ■■■■, like you’re an actual artist. That AI pie you’re feeding me may have been generated to look like apple pie, but it’s still a pile of ■■■■ on the inside.
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I haven’t properly entered a contest lately because of this, why bother, Putting aside some of the rule breaking winning models. Most of the entries are just someone typing the contest theme in as an AI prompt and submitting the result.
10 of the top 25 in trending on the candy dispenser challenge are AI where someone has typed “make a cute candy bowl with a [insert animal/character name here]”
I remember this happening a lot with Hueforge spammers too, now it’s just AI, or a combination of both. They are always the first to come cry on reddit/forums “why did i lose points waaa”
Part of the reason I gave the forums a break for a bit is because I was having a big argument a while back with someone who didn’t want to have to go through all their models and check them after a makerworld.bambu slicer update. Check their profile? Multiple models a day for months that were just AI image to Hueforge. “Waaa i have to check so many models” yeah because you’re a spammer, that comes with the territory
/grumble
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In this case, the problem lies more with the subject of the competition. If a mechanical component were required, the AI would be unable to participate, which would make the field of participants more selective.
We should avoid generalising and dismissing all competitions outright; some have produced truly innovative ideas and have been excellent. As an example of the ongoing Laboratory Equipment Design Contest. It just depends on the theme and how MakerWorld sets the rules.
I recognise the problems, of course, but we mustn’t lose sight of the positives. AI isn’t going to disappear, but we could focus more on tasks requiring mechanical knowledge and practical skills. But, as I said, that’s more down to MakerWorld. While we can encourage them to focus more on that, it’s unlikely to happen in reality.