DeviantArt letting people charge for "their" AI sludge

:deviantart-cool: qin-shi-huangdi-fireball

I just came back to this site recently and it seems like it's turning to shit

Half the results for stuff I look up is AI sludge and it all looks like shit

Incredible choice for a site supposed to be about creativity to encourage and offer tools to automate away creativity

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Israel-owned company, BTW.
- Ohhh interesting
I used to get most of my business on Deviantart, since they really started pushing this AI stuff the site has died. It technically has more traffic than ever, but actual artists barely get a fraction of the attention they used to. Most (including myself) have moved onto other platforms, because it has become so hostile to artists.
- I didn't realize it was so bad :(
  
  I never really used DeviantArt a whole lot in the past but I started browsing again in the last few days and it's definitely different in a bad way
  
  Yeah, it's pretty much impossible to find any new artists to follow and so much of the site is dedicated to getting people to pay for their shitty AI art that just rips directly from actual artwork on the site.
Check out Cara.app it was founded by Jingna Zhang who famously had a massive following on dA and had her art stolen and entered into art competitions. They also don't allow any AI and there are no ads.
DA pivoted to AI? I thought they were pivoting to compete with OF. It's like declaring war on your own userbase.
probably better to let them charge for it than to have AI witchhunts which would inevitably target a few real artists too. But that point is moot since they're outright encouraging and profiting from the AI tools directly, they aren't just a neutral marketplace

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