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Ciri The Witcher by mikonotai

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Vianola by mikonotai

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Deviantart supports AI

This is just sad. I saw this post on Twitter and went to Deviantart news site to get a closer look and it's official; Deviantart no longer supports actual artists but art thieves. To me, AI is nothing more than mish mash stolen pics from the artists and not crediting them.

That person on the news, Miko is only on Deviantart for a year and already she has 13.8 K watchers and sold her AI pics for over $12,000 hence making her the most popular deviant 'artist' on the site. If it was me or other artists who don't use AI, it would have taken us years to get to that kind of goal due to slow and steady method. But Miko and other AI users who decided to take a faster shortcut? Less than a year! I was on DA for fourteen years(2007) and it took me over a decade to have over 400 watchers(it was 413) but sadly, I closed my account and it'll be a long time before I earned a lot of watchers on other sites so I had to start all over. Same with other artists who started out small but over the years, they too earned a lot of watchers but now had to loose them to move to other sites and starting from scratch.

Its such bullshit that Deviantart used to be against art theft only to become the site that they very much against with. They just basically gave us artists a middle finger and telling us to go f@&% ourselves. I am so glad I already removed my gallery a year before they introduced AI and closing my DA account last year. Seeing that news post just confirms that I made a right decision.

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#43 by mikonotai

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#5 by mikonotai on @DeviantArt

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Black Widow by Mikonotai

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The Tragic Downfall of the Internet's Art Gallery

Nitish Pahwa for Slate:

On March 27, a large group of artists and creators from across the web noticed the frightening extent to which a once-beloved, highly influential community platform of theirs had, like so many others, fallen prey to the artificial intelligence juggernauts plundering the internet.

As VFX animator Romain Revert (Minions, The Lorax) pointed out on X, the bots had come for his old home base of DeviantArt. Its social accounts were promoting "top sellers" on the platform, with usernames like "Isaris-AI" and "Mikonotai," who reportedly made tens of thousands of dollars through bulk sales of autogenerated, dead-eyed 3D avatars. The sales weren't exactly legit—an online artist known as WyerframeZ looked at those users' followers and found pages of profiles with repeated names, overlapping biographies and account-creation dates, and zero creations of their own, making it apparent that various bots were involved in these "purchases."

It's not unlikely, as WyerframeZ surmised, that someone constructed a low-effort bot network that could hold up a self-perpetuating money-embezzlement scheme: Generate a bunch of free images and accounts, have them buy and boost one another in perpetuity, inflate metrics so that the "art" gets boosted by DeviantArt and reaches real humans, then watch the money pile up from DeviantArt revenue-sharing programs. Rinse, repeat.

I had no idea before reading this that that fucking Wix had bought DeviantArt back in 2017

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Nerfeti by mikonotai

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Ambre by mikonotai

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Josseline by mikonotai

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Michelle by mikonotai on @DeviantArt

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Zylfiel by mikonotai

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Nesayem by mikonotai

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2b new version by mikonotai

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Euphemia by mikonotai