HACKER Q&A
📣 capableweb

Why is Reddit deleting NSFW Stable Diffussion subreddits?


As title says. Reddit seems to be on a banning-spree and removing anything that is AI-related and NSFW. The r/StableDiffusion subreddit recently banned NSFW content as well.

There is plenty of NSFW overall on Reddit, but AI-generated NSFW doesn't seem to be mentioned in any site-wide rules, in the Terms of Service and no reasoning is being provided by Reddit.

So why is this happening?

  👤 PaulHoule Accepted Answer ✓
For one thing you could make fake porn of celebrities, if there was some way you could teach it what an arbitrary person looks like you could make revenge porn of anybody without getting a real porn picture.
👤 Giorgi
they are afraid to lose advertising money. That's why they removed all the NSFW subs from the frontpage in the first place and moved from forum-alike, into blog-9gag alike shitty format.
👤 enterdev
Why? It's their website and they can do what they want
👤 mrkramer
Where I can see NSFW Stable Diffusion content? I need it for scientific purposes :)
👤 jjulius
>... but AI-generated NSFW doesn't seem to be mentioned in any site-wide rules, in the Terms of Service and no reasoning is being provided by Reddit.

This is just plain not true. They very clearly ban AI-generated NSFW content, hence the removal of the subs:

>Additionally, images or video of another person posted for the specific purpose of faking explicit content or soliciting “lookalike” pornography (e.g. “deepfakes” or "bubble porn") is also against the Rule.

I Google'd "reddit rules", this[1] page was the top result, and under "Rule 3" the reader is linked to this[2] page, with the above quote.

[1]https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy

[2]https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043513411