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@the_luck_witch Oh yes, I agree (read this thread https://mastodon.art/@reinderdijkhuis/109327285432913484 for more) and they backpedaled a lot since the original announcement. (src. https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/UPDATE-All-Deviations-Are-Opted-Out-of-AI-Datasets-934500371 ) 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 https://haveibeentrained.com/ , so I guess the evil is already done...π
@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.