Well this is not the way I wanted to wake up. The Patreon Trust & Safety Team has removed my account for having NSFW AI generated art (I think?) on my page. I’m appealing this decision, but I’m not sure how successful I’ll be. It’s pretty devastating since I’ve built up a very vibrant community over there.

Here’s the exact violation that I broke:

Accounts that primarily allow access to generators, tools, or software that use machine learning or AI technology to produce 18+ nudity or explicit imagery are not permitted on, and may not be funded through, Patreon.

I don’t think that I “allowed access to generators, tools, and software” either. If I can get this fixed (and I really, really hope that I can), a lot of the offending material will probably be taken down and moved elsewhere.

In the meantime, I’ve set up a Discord server. I know a chunk of that community that I had is probably not going to see this, but hopefully some of you do.