In case you're leaving DeviantArt:
I can fully understand if you're leaving.
Although I thought about that as well, I guess I'll stay and see how things develop but I don't think I'll upload anything on here anytime soon. They changed the settings and now your deviations are automatically on opt-out, but I'm sure damage has already been done and the pictures have been fed into the AI.
However, there is still hope. The lawsuits seem to already make certain people nervous.
Here's some info on how you can protect your own pictures:
- Glaze https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ : it gets better and better and if tech bros/prompters try to erase the noise on the picture, the quality will drop significantly (they can't tell the difference before and after... yes, really). There's also a webversion for Glaze for those that don't have the possibility to use Glaze normally.
- check out websites that offer invisible watermarks containing the code of generated images. Those aren't used for training. So if you give your art this watermark, bots will ignore them. But be careful as resizing the picture can already destroy the watermark. But development is still ongoing.
- add noise to your art. This can help reducing the quality of generated images and disrupt training.
- (that's an obvious one) if you use visible watermarks on your picture, don't use text and make it look like it's part of the picture. The more it blends in, the harder it is to erase it.
- I encourage you to check out Artgram! https://www.artgram.co/
I'm aware that the site got some bad reputation lately, but if you're unsure, you can come to their Discord server and see for yourself. If there are any news regarding updates on lawsuits or if you just want to vent about AI, that's the place!
- if you're taking commissions or look to comission artists, check out artistree.io
They won't allow generated images on their site, so everything is human made art!
Those are just some examples that I found and I recommend that you do some search for yourself.
Thankyou Kindly For The Watch :D
No problem! I thought I already watched you. And sorry for the late reply!
Thank you for watching!
No problem! Your art is beautiful <3