I suspect prolific output to be a big part of this. Freestuff is full of AI generated material, not just the galleries. Rendo rewarding for that could be part of the issue. They are trying to sell assets after all not give them away. Servers, storage, and bandwidth are not free.

I do believe that this is slightly ill-considered. I have no issue with AI. Just the way some of the folk use it. Low effort type and go may be fun for some, but it just becomes so much eyestrain after a bit. NVIATWAS anyone?

I've been a member here since Metacreations owned Poser, Kai made Powergoo; and Renderosity and Renderotica were the same site. I changed username some 15 years ago or so. I visit here every day. On rare occasions I post to the forms. I have never posted to the gallery here in all that time. Does that mean I'm not any good or afraid to show my work? Nope. I was a professional for 35 years until I retired. I do show work elsewhere as well as post images to galleries. Some of them even {gasp} have AI components.

Texture creation, background removal and replacement, lighting changes, extraneous detail inclusion or removal, not to mention masking for editing and so much more. Just ask Adobe or any of the others mentioned. "AI" is not just still image creation. AI is being used with Poser and DS as basic input for AI effects. Blender and Vue both have AI plugins. Photographs get the AI treatment. Are you going to forbid the use of AI "assistance" in those galleries? If so; how do you tell?

Invisible watermarking? It's there in the models themselves and no; stripping the metadata does not remove the watermark. It's embedded at pixel level so AI doesn't train AI. It can be removed but not easily as it is weight (model) level and not application level. It will appear even if a non-ai generated piece is manipulated thus you can actually make a Poser render, photograph, or any other image identify as AI even if it isn't. The point is that well done work wont appear as "AI" and until you figure out a reasonable method of detection. AI artwork is appearing in every gallery due to the tools we use. Time to hire termites on staff as the wooden shoes are falling everywhere.