So I have accounts on #DeviantArt and #ArtStation, for ~13 and ~5 years respectively. I publish my work parallelly here and there. Last year or two both services started promoting their embedded LLMs 馃ぎ
There were some waves of #artist outrage against plagiarism and services claimed they would protect users' works against external AI scrapping... But they have own thing, right? (And DA is currently literally flooded with slop, often mass produced in series.)
There are some "NoAI" toggles on publishing interface, but mostly aimed at external AI I guess. And I don't have any warranty they don't train own models on users' data.
Now I don't know what to do. Just stop publishing there? Currently it's between 700 and 800 of my works on each of that services. Should I delete it? And delete accounts after?
I have also other objections about these portals, I wrote here about their discouraging attitude to 2FA (as premium option in DA and app-based-only in AS).
Are there some other services to publish digital pictures which didn't get infected with this disgusting AI hype?
I don't even draw professionally or make any money of this. I just don't want to legitimise this cursed planet-burning industry or help some US capitalist getting richer and donating to fascism.