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The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate
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They've committed themselves to AI art, that's how dead it is.
I remembered fond memories predating that period though. The chat room community was at once, very large. The chats still in fact exist, though, they've really tucked them away in a corner. Still have friends from there, still have seen so much talent come through there.
But you won't ever tell anymore what AI is and what AI isn't, because they've welcomed AI with open arms for a while. DeviantArt has truly backstabbed so many artists, without a care.
Oh and their logo is stupid as shit, looks more like an X than DA.
I had no idea, and this hurts. I have a few, but fond, memories about DeviantArt when I had a short phase on highschool where I was drawing for a bit (which was more than 10 years ago). It didn't last long, but DeviantArt was a large part of it.
Hearing they are commiting to AI art - THE platform for actual artists (at least it was, 10 years ago), who AI hurts the most, is insane. That's pure betrayal. I hate this.
Yup. They have an AI Art Generator called 'Dream Up' and it does exactly what you think it does.
So you can just make an account now, not caring about actually drawing or rendering anything, but you can just generate art. It's crazy.
It doesn't generate art, it generates content.
It degenerates art