The developers of VRChat have created a rift in the virtual platform’s user base after announcing that it would not include labels to categorize AI-generated content, despite around 95% of users asking for some sort of AI filter in a survey.

VRChat is a virtual hub where folks can gather to chat, make their own avatars, and create and play games together. It’s a fairly popular social platform that, perhaps unsurprisingly, is a hotbed for viral moments and hilarious content.

Also unsurprisingly, there’s been a sharp increase in AI-generated content in VRChat, to the point where fans are begging for some sort of distinction as to what has and hasn’t been made by humans.

In fact, the folks behind VRChat recently published a survey asking users for their feedback on the state of the platform. In that survey, “95% of survey respondents want some kind of label for AI usage,” as told in an official blog published on October 28.

Despite this overwhelming majority, the powers that be have decided against moving forward with an AI label, arguing that there’s simply too much disagreement among users as to what, exactly, should be done to delineate such content.

“We’re not adding an ‘AI-generated’ label or AI filters,” the devs said in the blog post. “While we think some creators would honestly label their content, we think others would try to pass off generative or assisted work as completely authored by hand. Likewise, we could see this creating ‘sleuthing’ behavior, where folks would attempt to sniff out ‘AI’ content or might harass other creators, even if they are genuinely not using any AI tools in their workflow.

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