DeviantArt Embraces AI Art, Fucks Up Massively, Annoys Artists

DeviantArt is a website that has survived on the Internet for generations.Artists can upload and share their work. that’s it! So it’s funny, and not a little bit tragic, to see the site try something new last week — making AI art possible —It just turns out to be the worst imaginable, implemented in the most ridiculous way possible.

AI generated art Something that sounds cool in theory, However actually almost except A chance for techies and scammers to steal your art and trick you into thinking you’re an artist. When take the job of a working artist.

It’s popular with people who unsolicitedly tell us that now is the perfect time to buy cryptocurrency, but real artists are generally horrified by the practice. So when DeviantArt published the following blog post last week, artists, real users, and the whole point of the site were understandably upset. “DreamUp is a prompt-based image generation tool that can visualize almost anything DreamUp can do.”

or blog postostensibly an introduction to a service that allows users to “create” their own AI art on DeviantArt, but spends most of its time saying “It’s actually fine. This isn’t terrible.” A huge number of users, at first sight of the legal and ethical complexities involved, “The is terrible!

but, I went anyway. And in just one day of opening, After artists protested that the AI ​​art system could easily scrape their own work without certification, they were forced to change it. Or even their affirmative consent. The worst example is that every piece of art across the website is flagged for AI systems to learn, requiring users to manually access their accounts and opt out of all images. is.

Also, a well-known artist style Stolen (People prompting into AI art, “fantasy,” (including the artist name to mimic the style), but that required submitting a form that took several days to process:

The bulk opt-out system changed quickly (too late for many, because the damage was already done!), but the whole idea as a whole is still terrible (They can’t even guarantee it works!), and DeviantArt knows deeply that. this Published an update to address user concerns This could suggest that there is an underlying problem with the whole point of the exercise, not just individual examples of its implementation.

AI art is the same whimsical, inhumane, tech-first, ask-ask-later thing that came out of the wheelhouse like cryptocurrencies and NFTs, and you can see it at work in DeviantArt’s system. . This is not for casual enjoyment of existing users. , but as a way to make money. DreamUp allows a certain number of free “prompts” before the user is locked out, unless they are a paying DeviantArt member of her. And if you do decide to pay, what do you get in return, other than the satisfaction you get from undermining the very community you’re supposedly a part of? You provided some examples of llamas.

These look like shit. It’s like a bot account tried to sell me as his NFT in 2021. Throw this all in the trash.