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Pagan Witch

@davidrevoy I mentioned this topic to my friend and they did some digging and it looks like it was a huge misunderstanding on Deviantart's side? Apparently people who manage their official Twitter fucked up the announcement.

Here is a link to the latest reblogs: at.tumblr.com/thefloatingstone

There is more to it tho: at.tumblr.com/drawingden/your-

There even is a form to fill if you want to opt out: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

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David Revoy

@the_luck_witch Oh yes, I agree (read this thread mastodon.art/@reinderdijkhuis/ for more) and they backpedaled a lot since the original announcement. (src. deviantart.com/team/journal/UP ) but still, what a communication mess at the scale of a community. A big bullet in their own foot could have been avoided with more communication and a better default option right of the box.

Also, all my artworks from DeviantArt are easy to find on haveibeentrained.com/ , so I guess the evil is already done...😔

Mastodon.ARTReinder Dijkhuis Does Art (@reinderdijkhuis@mastodon.art)Before I go to bed, a summary of how I see the #DeviantArt thing: If you're a DA user, you have NOT been opted into all your art being used to train other party's AI art engine, or DA's own new one. Instead, DA has added a checkbox to their art submission UI that you can use to ask other sites, nicely, not to scrape it for use to train AI art engines like those other sites have probably been doing for the past year. It won't do a lot of good but there's no new harm being done here.
Pagan Witch

@davidrevoy Yep, they definitely did perform a massive foot shooting. My friends mutual worded it as: "No matter how logical and well-intentioned the product was, no one could listen under the immediate fight-or-flight response this announcement created".

I don't have very impressive art on the site, but damn did I not go to specifically opt out all that I felt I don't want used for such a thing.

Nov 12, 2022, 01:47 PM·Public·Mastodon for Android
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