I have only read the first few pages and skimmed over the posts of all the other pages, so maybe my post is missing some pieces. I don't want to get in on the AI discussion as I feel that it's getting very heated.

But I noticed some aspect that bothered me a little bit: some posts seem to generalise the opinions shared in this thread as the opinion of the whole community.
At least one post mentioned that the majority of the community is against gen AI. However, I see only a fraction of the over 7000 users put their opinion in this thread. Even considering that some of these users are NPCs or adult characters (second or even third characters of other users), I don't think that this thread is necessarily representative of the majority of the community. There might be many users who don't feel comfortable sharing any pro-AI or AI-neutral point of view after reading the discussion in this thread. There might be many users who just don't care. We won't know unless everyone shared their opinion, which won't happen in threads like these.

That being said, I am looking forward to the alternative solution that will be proposed and then voted for (hopefully with wider participation and thus a more representative result of the actual majority of the community) because I personally don't like the black background.

Many of those users are connected accounts or inactive, however I agree, this doesn't represent everyone. I'm sure the poll may bring some more clarity to what users want and receive more participants. I appreciate us being allowed that option and will wait patiently for it.