MSO-Hessai

Hello everyone! It has been a long time since I posted any journal entry. Some of you might be aware of the AI situation on deviantArt which has only gotten worse over the last months. I hoped the uproar and the ongoing legal actions would at least stop deviantArt from going down that AI spiral any further but I was wrong. Instead the team tries to silence those who try to oppose it. For me, the final straw was a post on the official deviantArt X account where they promoted an AI artist as one of their "top-selling artist" on dA. The backlash was immense and instead of listening to the comments they tried to hide them: https://twitter.com/DeviantArt/status/1769476314921148662 It is obvious that deviantArt has no or only very little interest in doing something good for actual artists now. It is a sad thing to experience since I have been using this site for 17 years at this point and considered it to be THE spot for both professional as well as hobby artists to share their work

Hello everyone! It has been a long time since I posted any journal entry. Some of you might be aware of the AI situation on deviantArt which has only gotten worse over the last months. I hoped the uproar and the ongoing legal actions would at least stop deviantArt from going down that AI spiral any further but I was wrong. Instead the team tries to silence those who try to oppose it. For me, the final straw was a post on the official deviantArt X account where they promoted an AI artist as one of their "top-selling artist" on dA. The backlash was immense and instead of listening to the comments they tried to hide them: https://twitter.com/DeviantArt/status/1769476314921148662 It is obvious that deviantArt has no or only very little interest in doing something good for actual artists now. It is a sad thing to experience since I have been using this site for 17 years at this point and considered it to be THE spot for both professional as well as hobby artists to share their work