Oh! Time to log into DevArt after a million years and purge my gallery, they've decided to let AI-generating programs in

so people can just. scoop up your work and run it through the grinder

if it's on the site

Thanks, I hate this, actually

Purge everything!

yikes yikes yikes thanks for the heads up

Oh hmm. they're saying you can opt out, and "any image it creates that’s uploaded to DeviantArt will come pre-tagged as AI art and will credit any creators it drew its designs from", which is something. but still.

to be fair any art that's online is vulnerable to the less picky crawlers, I'm curious how dA says it's defending against those

dA also mentions somewhere that it can't guarantee third-parties won't access your stuff anyway, so I'd say it probably isn't doing much defending 😮‍💨

Basically if you don't want them to touch your things, you either delete everything individually or go through your entire gallery and opt-out one piece at a time

https://www.deviantart.com/... you can also go here to mass add the 'noai' tag to your deviations.

maybe not, it doesn't seem to work. despite what it says.

N ᴇ ᴛ ʜ ◈◇◇ : exactly. there isn't really an assured way to "ban" AI, to my knowledge

The best you can do is 1) ask the scraper to go away and hope it's ethical enough to listen, 2) have the server constantly check for what looks like scraper behavior and try to block it, 3) lock everything behind an account login

also, hilarious, this New Thing DevArt decided to do has broken the site because apparently EVERYONE HAS A THING TO SAY ABOUT IT

(good job everyone)

i mean that with full sincerity

looks like they're actually implementing option 1) ask nicely and hope the scrapers listen

bean check : that doesn't work, I tried it

go тo вread Confirmed that you were adding it as a gallery tag and not a robots flag, and that the robots flag for "noimageai" is in place (but "noai" is not, and doesn't seem to be on any dA artwork that I see so far. I suspect they plan to update the existing noimageai tag to include noai as well).

Jokes on them I haven’t posted in over a decade so they get real shitty art

at this point I'm super tempted to just purge my gallery and then delete my page out of spite