I’m new to 3D printing. I know this has come up before, but it seems Bambu still hasn’t addressed it: people posting AI images instead of actual prints.
It feels misleading. If someone avoids sharing a real photo, it usually means the print doesn’t look good. Prints should stand on their own.
AI images pull you in, but when you see the real object it’s often nowhere close in color, design, or texture. It wastes time and sets false expectations.
I won’t call out specific users, but it’s getting silly. This community should encourage sharing real results, not polished fakes. Why is this ok? If you made a profile with the real pic as the photo, people would scroll right past, thats why.
This Ghost Face an example, The AI one is cute and looks accurate… that REAL model… is a far cry from the AI pic, its not even close.
I mean they have to include a printed model photo to upload a print profile, so you clicking on their page then not downloading the model doesn’t really do much for them
No, the ghost face they included a real photo, other don’t. That makes it more deceptive. You see the AI image, think “that looks amazing, I’ll print it,” then open the file and get disappointed when the actual print does not come close.
If it happened once in a while, I would ignore it. But most of what I check ends up the same way. The AI picture looks great, but the real print does not match in color, design, or texture.
It is not the end of the world, but I figured my first post should bring up something I am sure others are also tired of seeing.
I believe any A.I. images should be visually tagged as such and should never be the cover image.
I recently played with A.I. and my own photos to see what it comes up with.
I was impressed at first, but then I noticed some issues. I then told it to try again without altering my models in the new version. I was impressed. It did not change the photo of my successful print; it looked good.
Despite this, it did recreate my model photo, so it isn’t really my photo made pretty.
I can see why people cheat themselves and others, though, by pretending what they offer is something other than it actually is.
Today is the worst the A.I. images will ever look. They can only get better from here. Honesty should be at the forefront.
A tip to you, post a link next time, assuming it lets you, since you are new here
Completely agree with you. Sometimes an AI/3d rendered image or gif is interesting if it shows off functionality or assembly, but they should never be the main model graphic.
Two possible ways to correct this behavior:
Community reports the models. I’m somewhat against this because we’re not paid to moderate this site and the small group that frequently posts on this forum already seems to put in a tremendous amount of this type of work.
Users leave bad reviews after they’ve been duped. This is a slower version of reporting, however I think the account punishment could be escalated. i.e. If you consistently get negative verified print reviews, that include sentiment ‘images do not match model’ then start limiting account’s visibility, publishing ability and reward system involvement.
If bytes on this forum influenced bambus business lizards, it would have happened a long time ago.
They’re trying to apple, but they lack the everything that apple had to sustain themselves (notably - competent and fast software engineering, and an aggressively and consistently applied ruleset to their walled garden)
They take the “all content is good content” approach that only works if your software successfully hides all the turds. After all they don’t care one iota of your print of some guys AI Garfield didn’t print right, you still purchased the filament…
It’s kind of funny because they’re really just farming the smartphone people. Rubes who only know handy don’t really have a good opportunity to identify the ai discrepancy presented on maker world. So this weird niche of “unskilled users” they’re trying to cultivate with handy are explicitly the ones being harmed by bambus own inaction. It’s just sad and full of waste
The reward system revamp, which I believe is still being worked on, has something called reputation score. Things like this can be made into part of that score.
Apart from reducing reward points for such models, I hope @MakerWorld considers limting the visibility of such models and the associated accounts as part of the system changes.
There are also extreme number of “designers” with designer status, and with only print files but NONE prints, so those “designers” even do not have 3D printer, but they trying to make money with free downloaded print files. I recommend to REMOVE ALL MODELS WITHOUT ACTUAL PRINT PHOTOS
