New Anti-Feature: The Asuka Apocalypse!
https://github.com/civitai/civitai/commit/84a7e4bdc767e2bf071899c61025f5e7fdd5b20d
An LLM is now setting models as "minor" based on a web search. Not only is this a reversal of prior explicit policy that "canon" age didn't matter, only appearance, its going to encounter highly placed but flat out wrong sources. "Fandom" wikis appear first in searches but are full of proclaimed character ages that are not only just uncited and made up, but often impossible and simply wrong (e.g., claiming characters who are defined by being older than another as younger).
It also not likely to properly account for the many edge cases fiction presents
Characters made with magic/super-science (e.g., homunculus, clones, subjectively solid duplicates made of shadow essence)
Characters who age as the series progresses: Kaori Nishidake is 16 in SSX (and 17 in SSX2), but she's 18 in SSX3. Is the machine going to realize my model for her is trained exclusively on data from SSX3 (except one promo shot for On Tour where she's even older)?
Characters who turn 18 during a work and have the same design before and after (especially video games where the assets are literally the same)?
What about characters with different ages depending on which language the game is played on (e.g., Lyndis from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, who is 18/19 in every translation but was 15/16 in original Japanese)?
How about characters where birth year and year source material is set are known but not the month of either, making it ambiguous if a character is 17 or 18?
Will it account for fantasy/sci-fi settings where a year is longer than an Earth year (e.g., According to an article in an official magazine published back in 1997, a year in the setting of Magic: The Gathering is 420 days of 24 hours, so a character who is listed as "16" is actually legal by Earth terms)?
How about the opposite, like video games where a "year" is four seasons of 30 days each? Will characters from there be considered a third their stated age?
What's even "canon" for this? Are they going to start locking models because some German TV Guide from the 80s listed a character as 17 and it was never contradicted by proper source? What about early pitch documents/show bibles otherwise full of things contradicted by/changed for the final work? A former low-level staffer posting on Twitter once?
I know at least one Marvel character that became a teenager again purely because she was given to a bad writer who made a bad plot for a bad event (made to prop up a bad character) that needed her to be a teenager and ignored 40 years of continuity to make her one (outright having a problem that was solved at the end of her original run pop up with no explanation!). Is a model of her during the years when she was living and working on her own and calling herself an "ex-teenager" going to be flagged as a minor now?
There's also works that, through shoddy continuity or just caring about gags more than continuity, will give characters vastly different ages at random.
Is Captain Marvel his own person summoned by Billy Batson, or is he Billy shapeshifted into an adult body? Fawcett could never pick one, so you have issues where the two clearly have separate memories to the point they can get eachother surprise Christmas gifts and Billy has to leave notes to explain situations to Captain Marvel, but also issues where it's clearly Billy in a different body. (DC mostly picks the second, but even then there's still exceptions like The Dark Knight Returns)
Update: They're still going! They see the problems and they're making it more aggressive!
Edit: Oh, ONE MORE THING! This also checks for real person status without checking pictures at all, and is likely to false positive on that too. So if you make (photorealistic) models of characters that have been portrayed by an actor make sure to clearly state you based the character on a video game/obscure comic/whatever where the face is original.
Update: Despite claims moderation still uses the old system, the code says otherwise! One of the final lines of this PR mentions a new system not identifying "canon-age" well is a fault. They're going to throw your generation attempts into the same mod queue because of "canon-age" right alongside the nastiest of illegal content.