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Ciri The Witcher 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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Black Widow 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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Nesayem by mikonotai

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2b new version by mikonotai

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Euphemia by mikonotai

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Terrie by mikonotai

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Madigan by mikonotai

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Rania by mikonotai