VRChat Community Protests Influx of AI Slop Hurting Discoverability

VRChat volunteer Patroll halted work on the wiki, translations and community testing over a "rampant plague" of AI-generated worlds and deceptive AI thumbnails in search. The developers immediately banned misleading thumbnails and launched a week-long community consultation on generative AI policy.

• Volunteer Patroll stopped VRChat wiki, translation and testing work
• VRChat immediately banned deceptive AI-generated world thumbnails in search
• AI allowed for translation, code and tools, but not for generating worlds
• Community consultation runs for a week before VRChat sets AI policy