DeviantArt’s new ai software 👀

@rajillustration Rachel
Sun, 13 Nov 2022 19:00:20 +0000

@rajillustration wrote:

Ordinaryaverageguy:

Same deal with twitter, lately. It's undergoing changes but so many seem to think it's automatically THE END. They might be right but it seems worth waiting a bit before abandoning ship.

speaking as a Bay Area native who's seen exactly how Musk operates, which is not great, I will be surprised if twitter doesn't file for bankruptcy. Like the only way they make money is through advertisers, and many advertisers are straight up pulling out of twitter because of Musk being unhinged.

But as for DeviantArt, I don't think it's as bad as a situation for their company as it is for Twitter, it feels like they knew they weren't the site for professional concept artists like ArtStation, and they're trying to shift their market to profit off of AI art under the guise of saying it's for "AI protection" although our copyright upon creation should already be doing that. So if you're an artist that wants nothing to do with that, and no longer trusts DeviantArt with your images (which I SUPER don't. They did opt in as default, remember?) then I understand why people delete their accounts. Hell it's why I did.