VRChat says it's not adding AI labels despite user survey showing people want that - Engadget

Why it matters

VRChat, a platform for building and sharing virtual worlds for social interaction, surveyed its users about artificial intelligence and found that an overwhelming majority of respondents wanted some form of label designating AI usage. Despite that result, the company announced it will not implement such tags for now. It explained that some creators would likely mislabel generative or AI-assisted work as fully handmade, and that a labeling system could encourage harassment or so-called sleuthing, where users try to detect AI content and target creators even when they use no AI tools. The company is still weighing a label for human-authored content and a field showing which tools were used, but has taken no definitive position, and it will not offer a way to filter AI-generated content from search. Instead, VRChat plans changes with broader community agreement, such as accurate thumbnails, improved discovery tools, and treating quality as a core metric. The situation highlights a genuine tension: platforms face pressure to disclose AI content while fearing that imperfect labels could create conflict and harm innocent creators.