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Banned: Newgrounds

Despite being founded in 1995, Newgrounds has a stated policy that goes much further than other, newer image hosting sties.
Despite being founded in 1995, Newgrounds has a stated policy that goes much further than other, newer image hosting sties. Photo: Ralf Liebhold (Shutterstock)

If you don’t have nostalgia for the bad flash animations and occasional gems hosted on Newgrounds, then you probably didn’t grow up in the age pre-Facebook. However, the site has taken an expressly modern stance against any AI-generated art from being included in its Art Portal, naming generators like Midjourney, Dall-E, and CrAIyon. The site does add that using AI art for background images is fine as long as users note what it is.

“Bottom line: We want to keep the focus on art made by people and not have the Art Portal flooded with computer-generated art,” their art guidelines read.