I, as buyer of Audio… can not use this store - it simply is 100% risk to buy stuff and get refunded 6 months later, cause of copyright problems, or missing licenses cause of AI stuff… needing to repolish all audio of a project.
Fab - is unusable!
No more to say… just… skip it and look for a different store when trying to buy audio/textures.
I know there are also AI generated Plugins… but that’s not as worse as in the audio-visual sections.
Well, that is what this thread was about.
They responded to an off-topic question in this thread but not to the main topic, but they gave a response to this thread separately in a different thread which was more or less “just report them.” So I think there isn’t really any plan or policy on AI flooding the market.
I think the clock must be ticking.
I’d also imagine a competitor has had a great learning curve! On how not to start a new market place, if they read the many threads on this forum.
I’d think that a new market place that, for example, had a no A.I policy that was rigorously enforced, written reviews, a store page that could be organised as the seller saw fit (maybe that’s just me), and…well, we all know know what many sellers want.
If a new market place opened that had all that…I have a sneaky feeling it would be very popular.
Still, you never know, maybe this place will be that marketplace 
I applaud the idea, but I seriously doubt Epic will do anything with it. There are many posts here and on old UE forums reaching back to first gAI assets (eg. like mine AI Generated Assets on the Marketplace?). During many livestreams people were asking about that too. And as far as I know the topic was mostly avoided by Epic employees (I would guess this is official policy for them). The only clear thing was that Tim Sweeney welcomes AI generated content (as evident by his tweets around gAI steam’s controversy). I recall seeing a few pro-gAI tweets from time to time too, but those might have been expressing private views, not official company policy.
The problem is not AI per se, but the way it’s being mishandled and pretty much ■■■■■■■ everyone over.
It does seem to have been mishandled.
I don’t have a problem with A.I but, like any human, I can’t compete with it.
If Fab is happy to allow endless A.I…everything, I can’t see me having any option but to look else where to sell my models. Of course that’s no biggie, but…
…I was so looking forward to seeing Fab start, thinking it would be the only site I’d need to sell on, but with sales at a trickle and seeing what’s going on with A.I, with no end in sight, and believing it’ll get a lot worse, you gotta do what you gotta do…sadly.
How about FAB gets renamed into UAI, so that everyone knows AI and not actual human creators & sellers are the priority?
That would at least be honest.
It frustrated how much they don’t care about sellers:
Our dashboard for filter month still doesn’t work:
Our asset not marked as Owned:
Our money earn from 26 December still missing, and it already ends of January. Will they just steal our money ?
Monthly filter only shows after the month is over. Just curious, how do you know you have missing sales on Dec 26?
The problem is, the Fab marketplace is constantly flooded with content created by bots. There are already tools that automatically generate AI assets and upload them to stock market.
As a music composer, I know how much time it takes to create music. I’ve noticed that AIgenerated assets, which often aren’t marked as such, are being uploaded daily at an incredible pace, flooding the market. I was working on a cozy music package, composing 10 cozy tracks in FL Studio, with the intention to upload them to Fab. But after seeing the nonstop uploads of AI music and buyers ignoring the music category, I decided it would be a waste of time to upload my content there.
Instead, I have sold those 10 cozy tracks, along with their FL Studio project files, under an exclusive license to a friend whose team is developing a cozy game. Now, I’m focusing mainly on the freelancing market. AI isn’t the problem, but there should be a separate category for AI-generated content with strict rules. Also, there should be a limit on how many times a user can upload content within a year.
I hope Fab implements strict rules similar to Fiverr. On Fiverr, you can provide AI generated assets, but you must clearly state in your gig that you used AI. If a freelancer creates assets using AI but falsely claims to have created them manually, and the client discovers the truth, the client can report it. Fiverr’s customer support will then ask the freelancer to provide proof of the creation process, such as videos or screenshots detailing the asset’s development. If the freelancer cannot provide proper proof, their account is permanently disabled along with their IP address.
Pretty soon FAB will be an AI-only Market if they do not step in.
500 hours of Music posted in 3 days by one account is insane.
I’m disappointed that @justin-274 commented on this thread in response to an off-topic question while skipping the main issue of the thread itself.
Can’t be worse than that guy making character models of random celebrities, or that week where someone was releasing thousands of AI-generated UI icons.
This hasn’t stopped though…?? Sort by new in the 2D Art section and that’s basically all you find. These are ones approved yesterday:
It hasn’t slowed down at all (if anything it’s getting worse). It’s not like there was “one week” where this happened, it’s literally happening every day.
I remember seeing from the staff themselves that we would get a major update/improvement this month… In December. Not sure if it was here or their YouTube channel though.
This lack of ETA and transparency about the serious issues are pretty bad. It’s not like we don’t want FAB to be a massive hit, but man why it’s so hard to get someone from the team to make a thread answering all serious questions that we are hammering here for weeks?
It’s not like they can use the holidays as excuse anymore too, we’re almost at February and still no clear action over non-existent QA, AI flooding, bad actors selling ■■■■, confusing labeling, low-quality assets, stolen content […] Also no ETA, for anything at all. You can’t nuke something that works to put in place something that’s barely functional feature-wise like it’s predecessor.
I rememeber that it was extremely bad where all that was being posted was those AI portraits of those furries and an boombox.
Like it was just an handful of guys just sticking to an specific them to individually flood the site with.B
But today seems to be one guy uploading his collection of wrecked cars and someone else ripping off DC Comics
