Absolutely correct, and that is exactly what we are doing.
AI accounts, bots, or automated profiles are banned and prohibited.
AI-generated pictures as avatars or main profile pictures were never approved or used, as they would not represent the real person, which is one of the core requirements.
At the beginning of the AI boom, AI gallery pictures were sometimes approved during peer review alongside regular user gallery “action shots.” However, we began taking down profiles that contained only AI pictures. In most cases, the AI picture was removed or set to private, and the profile was flagged for mandatory verification.
Over the past weeks and months, we have started removing all AI pictures at an administrative level, including those in galleries.
In one of our upcoming site updates, we will update the Photo Peer Review process to filter out AI pictures. This will be introduced together with an overhauled content moderation system and updated community guidelines. The goal of MeetFighters remains meeting real fighters, and a profile created primarily to display AI pictures does not support that goal. After observing the AI boom for about two years, it is clear that adding such pictures to profiles provides little benefit to the community.
How this upcoming policy will apply to non-human AI images, such as logos, objects, or banners, has not been fully decided yet.
This policy applies to user profiles and public galleries. Private pictures and forum post attachments are not affected.
In general, I think MeetFighters is not flooded with AI pictures or even AI profiles. The uploads are well within the range that our moderation team can handle and only affect the profiles gallery. The vast majority of uploaded pictures are non-AI-generated.
Finding the right balance is hard, and we will disappoint one group.
Some users get upset when there is a picture of food, cars, or nature in a gallery, while others react negatively when they see an AI-generated wrestling image. It is difficult to argue that one is clearly more damaging to the experience than the other. In practice, we tend to see both on a similar level: not ideal, but also not something that fundamentally harms MeetFighters or the community.
In an ideal world, you would only upload pictures of yourself or those strictly related to the sport, like your mat room. On the other hand, everyone also has other hobbies and wants their profile to reflect their personality and interests.
However, the AI-SLOP made clear that there is a difference between your car picture and AI-generated images.
This topic is a work in progress, and the final result may vary.
Awesome coverage and it's very much appreciated, especially in seeing the effort being put into the site—thanks for that!
As an add-on to my lengthy thesis, for anyone wanting more rambling thoughts on it: there's obviously different sides to this issue (and I certainly have my own opinions on it), but for positivity sake:
We're all addicted to convenience. Yes, that goes for you too, <your name here>. The very existence of this site, it's function, the multi-communication platform of direct messages, real-time chat, and forums, combined with numerous profile features, with added customization, areas for user-input, and an entire database for photo storage and organization—these are all incredible features that we've gotten very used to across the internet broadly.
As the internet continues to expand with more and more information...well, first, remember to safeguard your information, your privacy is sacred, and it is ultimately up to you to decide what you share and in what form. But my main point is: MeetFighters isn't the only website that exists for hosting information. You can upload photos and images to other websites as well, and maintain a collection of whatever artwork, paintings, or AI generated images that you want, and surely you can find some way to communicate those with others if they're interested, even if they aren't directly hosted here on MeetFighters.
More excitingly, I remind people of the existence of MeetFighter's sister site, ChatFighters.com. Yeah, there's an entire clone of MeetFighters, explicitly intended for the purpose of satisfying imagination, all ready for you to go and have fun on! No restriction for the identities and characters you build there, no limitation to adhere to reality; you can create yourself, re-create yourself, or create an entirely new-self, and express that self with other people!
So I say: definitely keep voicing your thoughts and opinions—these are new and growing issues, and it's important to discuss things in order to find consensus and build the best community that suits as many people as possible—but in the meanwhile, regardless if you feel your freedom of personal or self-expression is being infringed here, there are still resources out there to take advantage of: places where you can experiment with more forms of creativity in the realm of AI images, and have the opportunity to share those results with others—and some of those resources, like ChatFighters, are pretty darn closely connected with MeetFighters itself, so you don't even have to go very far out of the way.
Anyway, just trying to through some alternative paths in there. Like I mentioned, I have my own opinions on this stuff, but my biggest opinion is that people need to be as free as possible to express themselves (especially as someone who struggles with doing it). However, like everything, there's a time and a place, and the circumstances of what's appropriate, where it's appropriate, and when it's appropriate, can (and usually will) change. That's just life, that's just society, that's just community being about consensus, regardless of whether things are going the way we want them to or not.
Note: This is all my personal opinion because I want to be a part of the community too, and is in no way intended to be an authoritative instruction or command or anything like that. Well, unless you're into that kind of thing, in which case: you, yes, <your name here again>. Go drink some water. Stay hydrated. Do some arm rotations, sit on the floor and do some leg stretches. Good job, keep doing your best today, there's more days ahead, and you deserve to be your better self as you reach them.
TL;WR: Scammers ruin everything, so I think we should play it safe, restrict AI images for Public Photos, maybe allow AI images user-marked as AI images for Private Photos, so that people who want to use their gallery for art and non-real photographs can still share them and express themselves, with less risk of AI generated photos being marked/considered real through the Photo Peer Review process.
I see the question as "freedom versus security". Does the site value freedom of individuals to upload any image they want, or does the site have limitations on the content individuals can upload for any reason?
There are some typical limitations on freedom/speech that sites always invoke. The Content Moderation Policy states a prohibition on posting illegal content or content that violates the terms of service, with some examples. The Guidelines for Picture Moderation in the Community mentions the guidelines are not about rigid adherence to rules but rather reflective of a value for the ability to think, interpret, and apply fair judgement.
However, there's also a "Photo Peer Review" process, and user's uploaded photos automatically go through the process if they're not marked Private. The Guidelines say each picture is unique and should be assessed on its own merits, yet the Guidelines explicitly state the main objectives are to either ensure a clear and recognizable face picture or present a clear view of the front body, primarily shirtless, to assess overall fitness, with the Application of Guidelines section stating pictures don't have to be perfect, and that meeting basic criteria/encouraging positive community engagement is acceptable.
The Photo Peer Review process, in my opinion, wouldn't exist if there weren't some concern for ensuring safety and a positive and welcoming environment, and the very possibility that any single one of those images in the Review queue might be AI is an inherent risk to the review process. Whether the image is a completely fabricated AI generated image, or a photo that's been AI enhanced, the existence of any AI imagery is an additional determination that goes beyond simply addressing the content, and begins addressing the issue of safety. If it's not obviously a non-real photograph (such as a logo, drawn artwork, a cartoon, a CGI rendering, or AI imagery resembling those things), then I believe there should be a relevant concern.
Photos used in peoples' public-facing profiles carry real-world implications for the decisions that members of the community make, and—regardless of whether the image is marked as AI or not, or if a comment is added to the upload stating that it's AI or modified—the intrusion of AI at all makes 'any' uploaded Photo potentially suspect. Hell, I know I occasionally find myself spending time counting the number of fingers on peoples' hands in their photos, or using other techniques based on known AI generated imagery imperfections, just to feel a little bit more confident that the person I'm considering messaging is actually real, or that their Photos accurately reflect who they really are.
I think it's important to remember this is a social site first and foremost. People are here to express themselves, and very often seek to meet up in-person. Safety should be top priority, and the presence of AI images inherently complicates, hinders, or outright sabotages the processes for verifying someone's identity (intentionally or unintentionally). How can anyone know whether an AI generated image was uploaded for the purpose of deliberate deception, or just as a fun mockup, or a reflection of what someone intends to look like in the future? How can someone's intentions be known, if they share an extraordinarily realistic AI image without saying anything until their caught, at which point they argue "I never said it was a real photo, I just had it there cause it looks good".
I feel the most safe course of action would be to prohibit AI generated or AI enhanced/modified images for use on peoples' public Profiles. Maybe AI generated/enhanced images can still be around, in the form of Private images, where context could be more readily offered in direct conversation. But I believe any image that goes through the Photo Peer Review process needs to be real and genuine, with no doubt that there is no AI content whatsoever, and that requires AI images to be mandatorily marked at the absolute least. I would slightly prefer AI images be restricted from being Public, in order to make full use of the Photo Peer Review's intentions, and remove a burden from the entire community having to endlessly apply their own Photo Review every time they visit someone's profile, simply due to the risk of an AI image not being caught during the actual Photo Peer Review process.
Yes, every individual should be verifying images regardless: everyone is responsible for their own safety. But the site is here for us, the community, and I think we should take advantage of the tools the site has to make safety easier, not harder, for us all.
There is far too much AI generated stock on this, and many other sites these days. I think that it should be removed from the main profile, and only allowed if it's in a clearly marked gallery.
I already mentioned this in a thread I created. I think AI art should be banned on this site, and anyone who posts it should receive some kind of warning, then be banned on a second offense. Just my personal perspective on this.
I second this, and frankly there are more than enough reasons to outright ban it. People forget and/or simply do not care about the many, many ramifications of using generative ai. If nothing else, here's to hoping that use of it becomes more heavily restricted.
Enforcement is a slippery slope. How is AI being used? What about pictures of drawings or artwork? False statements or intentional false representation are definitely frowned upon, but what if someone generated AI imagery to demonstrate wrestling scenes they enjoyed (for example)? But then there's this site rule: "The information and photos in your profile have to be of you."
Does an AI generated image of yourself count?
That something many commenting here seem to forget. Authentication rules are already in effect. As is a review process for the acceptance of those photos.
As for the artwork, that's self-explanatory. The heading indicates and informs it was created.
I agree with you litewt there are some members on here who like to use ai generated photos to show what kind of match they want. In addition to their real photos. And it’s clearly marked in the photo’s description. Yes then they are others who use AI as their profile photos. But you’re able to tell AI for real. What’s the old saying “if it looks to go to be true. It is”. I’ve ran into a couple of AI profiles. The profiles say CYBER ONLY. Definitely a member with fantasies. So, I think that the photo peers should do a case by case study. Allow AI generated photos as long as they’re attached to a story or attached to a profile who have real member photos as well.
Actually, you can't tell the difference – not always. But to be brutally frank, photos have always been enhanced from as far back as Photoshop, and even before then in the film only days. Although it took lot more time, effort, and expertise to pull it off effectively. Point it, it's not new.
I’ve reported a few accounts that were obviously AI in the normal Report page and 1 of 3 got taken down. The one guy was in the middle of deleting his old fake pictures for new ones and I got a screenshot at just the right time. The other two are still up and I see their names all the time. They even have past opponents with people who have multiple opponents listed, and when I reached out, the latter said they had a cyber match not IRL. I just block them now.
I see only 2 reports from you. On both, we took swift action, and these accounts no longer exist today and were banned by the system for failing to verify.
Can you please report the 3rd person you mentioned?
I keep seeking so many AI accounts pop up and AI pictures pop up. Is there any way we can report these accounts as fake to the admins it's ruining the expirience.
Evillee (19 )
3/14/2026 6:25 PMAI accounts need to go. Plain and simple.
Admin
3/14/2026 11:08 PM(In reply to this)
Absolutely correct, and that is exactly what we are doing.
AI accounts, bots, or automated profiles are banned and prohibited.
AI-generated pictures as avatars or main profile pictures were never approved or used, as they would not represent the real person, which is one of the core requirements.
At the beginning of the AI boom, AI gallery pictures were sometimes approved during peer review alongside regular user gallery “action shots.” However, we began taking down profiles that contained only AI pictures. In most cases, the AI picture was removed or set to private, and the profile was flagged for mandatory verification.
Over the past weeks and months, we have started removing all AI pictures at an administrative level, including those in galleries.
In one of our upcoming site updates, we will update the Photo Peer Review process to filter out AI pictures. This will be introduced together with an overhauled content moderation system and updated community guidelines. The goal of MeetFighters remains meeting real fighters, and a profile created primarily to display AI pictures does not support that goal. After observing the AI boom for about two years, it is clear that adding such pictures to profiles provides little benefit to the community.
How this upcoming policy will apply to non-human AI images, such as logos, objects, or banners, has not been fully decided yet.
This policy applies to user profiles and public galleries. Private pictures and forum post attachments are not affected.
In general, I think MeetFighters is not flooded with AI pictures or even AI profiles. The uploads are well within the range that our moderation team can handle and only affect the profiles gallery. The vast majority of uploaded pictures are non-AI-generated.
Finding the right balance is hard, and we will disappoint one group.
Some users get upset when there is a picture of food, cars, or nature in a gallery, while others react negatively when they see an AI-generated wrestling image. It is difficult to argue that one is clearly more damaging to the experience than the other. In practice, we tend to see both on a similar level: not ideal, but also not something that fundamentally harms MeetFighters or the community.
In an ideal world, you would only upload pictures of yourself or those strictly related to the sport, like your mat room. On the other hand, everyone also has other hobbies and wants their profile to reflect their personality and interests.
However, the AI-SLOP made clear that there is a difference between your car picture and AI-generated images.
This topic is a work in progress, and the final result may vary.
Beastman (2 )
3/15/2026 4:55 PM(In reply to this)
Awesome coverage and it's very much appreciated, especially in seeing the effort being put into the site—thanks for that!
As an add-on to my lengthy thesis, for anyone wanting more rambling thoughts on it: there's obviously different sides to this issue (and I certainly have my own opinions on it), but for positivity sake:
We're all addicted to convenience. Yes, that goes for you too, <your name here>. The very existence of this site, it's function, the multi-communication platform of direct messages, real-time chat, and forums, combined with numerous profile features, with added customization, areas for user-input, and an entire database for photo storage and organization—these are all incredible features that we've gotten very used to across the internet broadly.
As the internet continues to expand with more and more information...well, first, remember to safeguard your information, your privacy is sacred, and it is ultimately up to you to decide what you share and in what form. But my main point is: MeetFighters isn't the only website that exists for hosting information. You can upload photos and images to other websites as well, and maintain a collection of whatever artwork, paintings, or AI generated images that you want, and surely you can find some way to communicate those with others if they're interested, even if they aren't directly hosted here on MeetFighters.
More excitingly, I remind people of the existence of MeetFighter's sister site, ChatFighters.com. Yeah, there's an entire clone of MeetFighters, explicitly intended for the purpose of satisfying imagination, all ready for you to go and have fun on! No restriction for the identities and characters you build there, no limitation to adhere to reality; you can create yourself, re-create yourself, or create an entirely new-self, and express that self with other people!
So I say: definitely keep voicing your thoughts and opinions—these are new and growing issues, and it's important to discuss things in order to find consensus and build the best community that suits as many people as possible—but in the meanwhile, regardless if you feel your freedom of personal or self-expression is being infringed here, there are still resources out there to take advantage of: places where you can experiment with more forms of creativity in the realm of AI images, and have the opportunity to share those results with others—and some of those resources, like ChatFighters, are pretty darn closely connected with MeetFighters itself, so you don't even have to go very far out of the way.
Anyway, just trying to through some alternative paths in there. Like I mentioned, I have my own opinions on this stuff, but my biggest opinion is that people need to be as free as possible to express themselves (especially as someone who struggles with doing it). However, like everything, there's a time and a place, and the circumstances of what's appropriate, where it's appropriate, and when it's appropriate, can (and usually will) change. That's just life, that's just society, that's just community being about consensus, regardless of whether things are going the way we want them to or not.
Note: This is all my personal opinion because I want to be a part of the community too, and is in no way intended to be an authoritative instruction or command or anything like that. Well, unless you're into that kind of thing, in which case: you, yes, <your name here again>. Go drink some water. Stay hydrated. Do some arm rotations, sit on the floor and do some leg stretches. Good job, keep doing your best today, there's more days ahead, and you deserve to be your better self as you reach them.
grappling hooked (30)
3/14/2026 11:53 PM(In reply to this)
Excellent! Fully support this policy.
Beastman (2 )
3/13/2026 11:41 PMTL;WR: Scammers ruin everything, so I think we should play it safe, restrict AI images for Public Photos, maybe allow AI images user-marked as AI images for Private Photos, so that people who want to use their gallery for art and non-real photographs can still share them and express themselves, with less risk of AI generated photos being marked/considered real through the Photo Peer Review process.
I see the question as "freedom versus security". Does the site value freedom of individuals to upload any image they want, or does the site have limitations on the content individuals can upload for any reason?
Personally, after doing a review of the Terms of Service/Use, Guidelines for Picture Moderation in the Community, and the Content Moderation Policy, there's two things that stand out to me: safety and a positive and welcoming environment for all members of our community.
There are some typical limitations on freedom/speech that sites always invoke. The Content Moderation Policy states a prohibition on posting illegal content or content that violates the terms of service, with some examples. The Guidelines for Picture Moderation in the Community mentions the guidelines are not about rigid adherence to rules but rather reflective of a value for the ability to think, interpret, and apply fair judgement.
However, there's also a "Photo Peer Review" process, and user's uploaded photos automatically go through the process if they're not marked Private. The Guidelines say each picture is unique and should be assessed on its own merits, yet the Guidelines explicitly state the main objectives are to either ensure a clear and recognizable face picture or present a clear view of the front body, primarily shirtless, to assess overall fitness, with the Application of Guidelines section stating pictures don't have to be perfect, and that meeting basic criteria/encouraging positive community engagement is acceptable.
The Photo Peer Review process, in my opinion, wouldn't exist if there weren't some concern for ensuring safety and a positive and welcoming environment, and the very possibility that any single one of those images in the Review queue might be AI is an inherent risk to the review process. Whether the image is a completely fabricated AI generated image, or a photo that's been AI enhanced, the existence of any AI imagery is an additional determination that goes beyond simply addressing the content, and begins addressing the issue of safety. If it's not obviously a non-real photograph (such as a logo, drawn artwork, a cartoon, a CGI rendering, or AI imagery resembling those things), then I believe there should be a relevant concern.
Photos used in peoples' public-facing profiles carry real-world implications for the decisions that members of the community make, and—regardless of whether the image is marked as AI or not, or if a comment is added to the upload stating that it's AI or modified—the intrusion of AI at all makes 'any' uploaded Photo potentially suspect. Hell, I know I occasionally find myself spending time counting the number of fingers on peoples' hands in their photos, or using other techniques based on known AI generated imagery imperfections, just to feel a little bit more confident that the person I'm considering messaging is actually real, or that their Photos accurately reflect who they really are.
I think it's important to remember this is a social site first and foremost. People are here to express themselves, and very often seek to meet up in-person. Safety should be top priority, and the presence of AI images inherently complicates, hinders, or outright sabotages the processes for verifying someone's identity (intentionally or unintentionally). How can anyone know whether an AI generated image was uploaded for the purpose of deliberate deception, or just as a fun mockup, or a reflection of what someone intends to look like in the future? How can someone's intentions be known, if they share an extraordinarily realistic AI image without saying anything until their caught, at which point they argue "I never said it was a real photo, I just had it there cause it looks good".
I feel the most safe course of action would be to prohibit AI generated or AI enhanced/modified images for use on peoples' public Profiles. Maybe AI generated/enhanced images can still be around, in the form of Private images, where context could be more readily offered in direct conversation. But I believe any image that goes through the Photo Peer Review process needs to be real and genuine, with no doubt that there is no AI content whatsoever, and that requires AI images to be mandatorily marked at the absolute least. I would slightly prefer AI images be restricted from being Public, in order to make full use of the Photo Peer Review's intentions, and remove a burden from the entire community having to endlessly apply their own Photo Review every time they visit someone's profile, simply due to the risk of an AI image not being caught during the actual Photo Peer Review process.
Yes, every individual should be verifying images regardless: everyone is responsible for their own safety. But the site is here for us, the community, and I think we should take advantage of the tools the site has to make safety easier, not harder, for us all.
Churd (78 )
2/27/2026 3:41 AMThere is far too much AI generated stock on this, and many other sites these days. I think that it should be removed from the main profile, and only allowed if it's in a clearly marked gallery.
grappling hooked (30)
2/15/2026 8:59 PMI already mentioned this in a thread I created. I think AI art should be banned on this site, and anyone who posts it should receive some kind of warning, then be banned on a second offense. Just my personal perspective on this.
Lapsitting (0)
3/07/2026 9:44 PM(In reply to this)
I say it's okay to have AI contents as long as it is explicitly stated. Otherwise, banning should be enforced.
Juggernaut (0)
2/27/2026 1:33 PM(In reply to this)
Should the site ban nude art as well? What constitutes one art form being any worse than the other?
The admin already knows there is content that may be objectionable to some. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a block function. Think about it.
Colossus (0)
3/08/2026 3:53 AM(In reply to this)
AI "art" is not art. Art requires human input– a soul, if you will. AI images are just hollow generations made with prompts by talentless morons.
Drop the ban hammer.
BrokenTwig (5 )
2/27/2026 11:21 AM(In reply to this)
I second this, and frankly there are more than enough reasons to outright ban it. People forget and/or simply do not care about the many, many ramifications of using generative ai. If nothing else, here's to hoping that use of it becomes more heavily restricted.
litewt78 (106)
2/15/2026 3:11 PMEnforcement is a slippery slope. How is AI being used? What about pictures of drawings or artwork? False statements or intentional false representation are definitely frowned upon, but what if someone generated AI imagery to demonstrate wrestling scenes they enjoyed (for example)? But then there's this site rule: "The information and photos in your profile have to be of you."
Does an AI generated image of yourself count?
Juggernaut (0)
2/28/2026 12:29 AM(In reply to this)
That something many commenting here seem to forget. Authentication rules are already in effect. As is a review process for the acceptance of those photos.
As for the artwork, that's self-explanatory. The heading indicates and informs it was created.
MatureAlphaDadNJ (7)
2/26/2026 11:37 PM(In reply to this)
I agree with you litewt there are some members on here who like to use ai generated photos to show what kind of match they want. In addition to their real photos. And it’s clearly marked in the photo’s description. Yes then they are others who use AI as their profile photos. But you’re able to tell AI for real. What’s the old saying “if it looks to go to be true. It is”. I’ve ran into a couple of AI profiles. The profiles say CYBER ONLY. Definitely a member with fantasies. So, I think that the photo peers should do a case by case study. Allow AI generated photos as long as they’re attached to a story or attached to a profile who have real member photos as well.
Juggernaut (0)
2/27/2026 8:45 AM(In reply to this)
Actually, you can't tell the difference – not always. But to be brutally frank, photos have always been enhanced from as far back as Photoshop, and even before then in the film only days. Although it took lot more time, effort, and expertise to pull it off effectively. Point it, it's not new.
TwinkFighter (1)
2/15/2026 2:57 PMI’ve reported a few accounts that were obviously AI in the normal Report page and 1 of 3 got taken down. The one guy was in the middle of deleting his old fake pictures for new ones and I got a screenshot at just the right time. The other two are still up and I see their names all the time. They even have past opponents with people who have multiple opponents listed, and when I reached out, the latter said they had a cyber match not IRL. I just block them now.
Admin
3/14/2026 11:31 PM(In reply to this)
I see only 2 reports from you. On both, we took swift action, and these accounts no longer exist today and were banned by the system for failing to verify.
Can you please report the 3rd person you mentioned?
Illiniguy (2)
2/14/2026 11:14 PMI keep seeking so many AI accounts pop up and AI pictures pop up. Is there any way we can report these accounts as fake to the admins it's ruining the expirience.