On Monday of this week, pixiv, a well-known illustration website, released an announcement, and domestic netizens generally did not care about it, but some netizens in English-speaking areas were very dissatisfied with it. Because the announcement is for the United Kingdom and the United States, pixiv said it will adjust the viewing rights of users in both places.
Briefly summarize the content of the announcement, that is, Lori is not good, Lori involving heavy mouths is not good, it is not okay to infringe on the portrait rights of others, and it is not good to lack serious literary and artistic value. You may be hesitant, hey, have I read this message before? Then you may be confused, the last time we talked about dlsite, for this a month ago, dlsite changed the search keywords, such as changing training to training, changing idiots to sneaky, orcs to animal friends, etc.
At the time, it was common to attribute this behavior to the request of the credit card company, and it was, because in 2022, the American credit card company Visa lost a lawsuit.
The lawsuit originated because someone uploaded an unconsensual live video of Lolita on another yellow and black P station, and Visa provided payment services for the parent company of the yellow and black P station, so Visa was prosecuted on the charge of conspiracy, and the U.S. District Court of California finally found the guilty.
Some lawyers commented that this is a landmark ruling, because the judgment effectively requires financial institutions such as Visa to be held accountable for the illegal acts in which the service companies are involved.
From this background, we can see that dlsite's keyword changes are only part of the response. After that, some things happened, such as in early April, DLSITE announced that it was going to cancel Visa payment (Figure 1 below), but then netizens noticed that although the direct payment of the credit card was cancelled, points can be redeemed at DLSITE for consumption, and points can be used with Visa cards (Figure 2 below).
Netizens have developed a sense of familiarity with advanced experience. That's right, it's a small steel ball shop, gambling is legally prohibited in Japan, but pachinko is still prevalent, relying on a kind of steel ball shop, prize recycling shop, prize resale shop to cover the ears and steal the bell model, of course, many people also pointed out that this has a lot to do with the collusion of interests of the Japanese police.
Back on pixiv, if you have any impressions, at the end of 2022, pixiv had a restriction on the "Request" feature, which is similar to the announcement at the beginning of the article. In the past two years, pixiv has been greatly affected by ai painting, and i am afraid that the impact of ai is the first impression many people have of pixiv's recent situation, but if you look back at pixiv's relevant announcements, the changes taken in response to the censorship are also very obvious, and we are not easy to notice, but this group of British and American otaku are in the eyes.
At the end of 2023, pixiv issued an announcement that it would hide the submitted works based on some specific regions, at that time pixiv did not specify what region, plus some authors did not want their works to be learned by AI and chose to actively hide their works, and a few netizens thought that this "specific region" referred to Chinese.
However, according to the discussion of netizens in English-speaking regions, the United States and the United Kingdom are the real blocked regions, and some netizens in the discussion at that time suggested that if you change the default region of pixiv to China or Japan, you can lift the blockade. It's humorous, but it's true.
Visa is a U.S. financial institution, and the verdict was made by a California court, so what does it matter to the UK? However, in fact, the UK has gone even further on the relevant ban, and on the 16th of this month, the British Ministry of Justice announced a new law that will criminalize the production of AI adult pornographic images. Attention is not yet dissemination, but mere production means a crime, and attention is adult pornography, because in the earlier (90s) law, underage pornography was already a crime.
The Guardian noted that AI-generated images have grown "at alarming rates", citing a number of examples. As a result, the Crown Prosecution Service has asked the courts to impose restrictions on these techniques.
There is not much suspense about the emergence of similar situations, and when AI painting first appeared, many people predicted that it was a "Pandora's box". AI can allow everyone to have a certain ability to "draw", which will inevitably lead to the proliferation of all kinds of illegal works.
Of course, there are also British and American netizens who express similar views that "I shot in the game, it doesn't mean that I am a murderer", and some people expressed dissatisfaction with politicians and NGOs because of this. Based on various perceptions, the parties are in a confrontation.
The interweaving of cultures, realities, and technologies in various countries has produced the current hentai contest, and we may not be able to predict the final direction based on the degree of chaos of events. To a certain extent, the capital that pursues profits and hates losses seems to be easy to see through. Perhaps the origin of the incident is much older, and we are just a little footnote as a spectator.
Good night.