Epic Games Adresses AI-Generated Content Plaguing Fab

In his statement, Epic’s Senior Director of Creator & Developer Experience, Sjoerd De Jong, apologized for the “degradation of the Fab experience everyone experienced,” announcing that the user in question has been removed from Fab, along with a series of new rules the company plans to implement to prevent similar situations from happening again.

Going forward, Epic will require creators to indicate during the publishing process whether an asset was created using generative AI, while also adding automated tools to help detect AI-generated assets and exploring spam-prevention systems, such as daily upload limits. Additionally, the studio is updating its content reporting form to give the community a clearer way to report assets suspected of being AI-made but not properly marked as Created With AI.

De Jong also noted that users who wish to hide assets marked as Created With AI can do so through the content preferences menu, accessible via “the button found in the top right corner of search results.”