Major backlash for DeviantArt after AI announcement

DeviantArt just announced a new AI tool and reception is largely negative although some are seeing a positive side. most criticism seems to be regarding how artists are apparently forced to opt-in by default and confusion over how to actually opt-out.

update: it seems after backlash people are reporting that DeviantArt adjusted the system to be opt-out by default
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[DoctorVagrantYT]

RIP to the poor employee that has to review all these cuz DeviantArt can't create a coherent system

[TsukiKageTora]

I wouldn’t be happy about this if I was part of the DeviantART team that came up with this. Half if not 3/4 of their art is fetish art, poorly drawn fetish art

[Sushiphu]

I practically stopped posting on DA because their terms basically say they can do whatever they want with what you post. Letting you opt out is weirdly a step up for DA when most programmers dont even ask artists before using their work to train their ai generator.

[OtakuUnitedStudio]

Not just roasted by any artist either, he's the guy who designed the Pokemon models used in Detective Pikachu.

[Nephelis]

Artists were already considered the ''joke'' of jobs and faced too many problems, and now we're getting dragged down even more with AI of all things? Oh God please give me a break.

Our works are getting more and more disrespected and discarded as time goes on. I wanted to have a career in this area, but if my hand and creativity won't be needed anymore than I guess I'll have to work in something I don't have any interest in. Damn, this just makes me more depressed...

[sonicdash]

First Kevin Conroy passed away, now this? I don't even wanna know what is coming next.

[Sira_Kackavalj]

I think AI art is okay as long as it's properly marked and seperated differently from the usual hand crafted art

[whistheartist]

As someone who does use DA, you actually have to go into the edit screen (which is where you add the description and tags and stuff like that) and go underneath the tag to mark it (and I quote) "Not authorized for inclusion in third party AI datasets"

But wait, the cherry on top, DA cannot guarantee that you art will be used in the AI so there's kinda no point on trying to go through this whole process if they aren't gonna guarantee you that your art won't be used/showed

[tomboywarrior]

I'm laughing so much at this situation, cause 3 days ago I created a DeviantArt account to finally post my art somewhere else that is not Twitter and guess what, now I had to delete 400+ artworks that took me 3 days to upload and tag them, oh well.

[mattdamutt]

From what little I know, DA has been making backwards decisions for a long time now.
The latest blunder I recall is removing the search button for your favorites. Sucks to be those who literally favorited thousands.

[hunt]

I knew this shit was going to happen when AI Art became big, now we're have to do more verification ways to show that your art is legit.

[Zetact_]

I'm sure that DeviantArt has looked at their stagnant site and said to themselves, "But what if we could be a joke about degenerate fetish site WHILE having images that are ugly and completely lacking in identity?"

[sebastiantrias]

Trust me from experience, stay away from Deviantart, once your in, it’s hard to get out.

[carnotron]

I knew DA wouldn't ban AI art out of sheer greed, but this is going above and beyond any expectation of being trash.
Ai art has only brought controversy, stress and sadness to the entire artistic community.
If this is just the beginning nothing good can come from going forward.

[roluevasreisa]

Considering DA soft banned me for one week after I insulted ulta far leftists ans yes DAs forums have become as ultra far left as old school Twitter, I'll gladly take any negative news to DA

[DracoTheBlack]

Even as someone who is pro AI, was just playing the the new NovelAI model even, I can obviously see how tone deaf this is. Lots of artists are already mad/highly defensive regarding this issue, they just pissed off a huge chunk of their userbase and for what?

[avriia]

Thanks for covering this Hero Hei. Opting out each deviation is gonna be a bitch for both artist and the staff. Why tf would dA make their staff’s lives harder with this bs is beyond me.

[WarmLillie]

The robot resolutions has begun… My mechanic brother rise up!!!

[moonwarrior]

I can't describe the absolute amount of anger I am having right now is really on the breaking point for me. I once left my old DA for Tumblr til the god awful porn ban happened. Leaving me to be scrwed til I went to Pillowfort.
But the fact that I have spent more than a decade on DA really has shown how bad the site has gotten since the Eclipse when I came back to the site.
I'm sticking with Pillowfort.

[kylelee]

Honestly I just see this as big companies trying to monopolize visual art on a whole, When you think about it visual art is an entire industry that for a long time was very difficult for big corporations to fully exploit and there's no denying that there's money in this field despite public perception. Honestly this might sound conspiratorial but I think they just created these apps so that they could just have huge monopoly on the industry and tried to disguise it as a means for everyone to be creative. The big corporations can save money by laying off teams of artists and not hiring freelances and at the same time make even more money by distributing these software to naive people fooling them into thinking they can make money by selling prompt art, but in reality something that takes this little effort to make will have little value as the market oversaturates and even the biased people who were all for this AI art progression will soon realize that the prompt art is worthless due to the fact that anyone can make it by typing a prompt. Meanwhile big corporations just take in all the money they can get with the exploitation of art while simultaneously killing the medium. Don't know if you agree or not but honestly this really seems like the big plan they had...it may offer benefits for people who cant afford freelancers for small projects like book and album cover illustrations but with advent of AI music and literature those facets of art could ultimately meet a similar fate MAYBE with the exception of music since the copyright laws for that are incredibly strict. I just don't get how people don't realize the easier something is to make for the average person the less value it has in the long run, that's why low skilled jobs pay so much less most of the time. To really some it up in my opinion this was really sinister in it's inception, lets create a database with peoples art without their permission for an "AI" that spits out a derivative while we're simultaneously profiting off all the time they spent perfecting their skills and disguise it as a useful tool for everyone. They're also well aware of how slow copyright laws are to catch up so they know by the time laws are put in place to protect artists the damage has already been done. I don't blame the casual people using it but the huge Corporations who funded it as well as the biased tech bros who keep spreading the lie by how useful it is and it's like putting salt in the wound for them to scoff at artists Work while using these AI when it's literally trained off artists work. I guess there's some solace in knowing this "art" is largely worthless as it becomes more mainstream and becomes oversaturated. The real question is though, why do we as humans strive to try and make ourselves obsolete, I can understand the automation of jobs that most people don't really want, but it baffles me why we strive to get rid of the careers we actually strive for. Anyone who does art as a career obviously did that because they love it (I mean we literally have the whole right hemisphere of our brains associated with creativity), and I know society is about progress and efficiency and whatever but I honestly don't see the automation of art as a means of driving society forward at all, all I see is our brains stagnating and becoming creatively bankrupt as big companies turn out content on a conveyor belt and even if you decide to make the difficult choice of somehow transitioning to a new career field, which would obviously require more training how long before an AI takes that away too. Rant aside I wont ever stop making art regardless and art made by your own human expression and life experiences will always be superior to an AI derivative.