'kay, that makes sense. Thanks.

How does:

• The contest will not be anonymous.
• You are permitted to repost your entries online, such as on FB or the Renderosity Galleries, and talk about your entries, and to encourage others to come view or enter the contest.

match up with:

• You cannot sign your real name, Renderosity username, or use any logos on your image or thumbnail, but you can sign your real name or Renderosity username in the description box.

That seems just a wee bit contradictory, at least to me. I mean, if it's NOT anonymous, why the part about no signatures?

Found it. You are correct, there is no mention of AI anywhere in the rules. Which leads me to infer that whatever the current policy is regarding such usage on site also applies to this contest. But to be safe perhaps one should check with a mod before submitting one's entry, if one has doubts.

I'm seeing "Sorry!" page too now. Guess they're working on sorting out those details. Best to make sure everything is in proper order before officially announcing. 

Looks interesting. Might enter something just for fun, depending on the rules regarding workflow AI.  Like the OP said, there are still some things not quite clear. For instance, pure keyword generated images are not allowed due to the possibility of material "scraped from copyright sources". But what about pure or mostly-pure text generated images made with Adobe Firefly? Because that one is not trained on random stuff off the internet but on Adobe licensed stock. Should be legit to use, right? Things like that need to be sorted to (hopefully) avoid confusion. 

Halloween? Where? I'm only seeing Swimsuit and Animation contest announcements. 

Maybe not the "right" kind of traffic? Might be it's all those potential new customers via Social Media that the welcome mat is laid out for. And what's this about appeasing advertisers? I thought it was copyright concerns and gallery flooding complaints behind the AI ban. Though to be fair, I think they're still trying to sort those issues out -- at least that's what I understand from their updated gallery policy page.

Good to know. But since there is no longer an AI gallery -- and even though Poser or Daz Studio or an actual camera was involved, I wouldn't feel right posting them in those galleries because they wouldn't be pure 3d or photography after such major surgery -- I guess Mixed Media, Other Apps, or whatever it's called is appropriate. Unless Fan Art, which is a league unto itself. 

So does that mean I can also take my 3d renders and such into an AI app and generate new images based on them and the results would be okay to post in the gallery? Got quite a few photographs in need of such improvement and/or restoration. Not to mention some old Poser scenes that could benefit from an AI makeover.

Have you seen this? https://www.renderosity.com/article/27412/renderosity-updated-policy-for-ai-images-in-galleries

Apparently the Powers That Be here are trying to come up with something a bit more reasonable than the 100% ban announced (not quite?) a week ago. 

(edited because I accidentally omitted a word. Now that sentence makes sense.)

::mumbles something about towers, honked off Deities and curses:: No wonder we're all Confunded*!

(* not misspelled, look it up ;-)

We did used to have one, but I think they traded it in for the new Social Media forum(s). 

Bit slow for me too, wonder if the hurricane has anything to do with it? Or more of the same cyberattacks that have been affecting sites lately? They hit The Weather Network just a few days ago and it's only now recovering ... sorta. :-(

Thanks. Don't use Instagram or the site that used to be Twitter -- I flat out refuse to call it that absolutely nonsensical alias it has now -- but have Liked or Followed or whatever on Facebook. Not sure if that counts as my FB handle is not the same as here. I also don't spend a whole lot of time on it, but I will check it out whenever you post there.

May or may not be relevant, but has anybody else picked up followers who have zero history and who apparently joined just today? Because I got a notification that somebody called WoodChicken has started following me but I don't have a clue who that might be. Haven't left any reviews on my work as of yet, so I don't know if that's any indication it's a bot. All kinds of those out there, a few are mostly harmless but others not so much.

Apologies if they're a real live person too busy or too shy to comment. Been spammed more than once by "following" bots on sites, therefore I am cautious.