The art and design world is trying to work out just what place generative AI will have in the industry's future. The latest controversy along the way involves the major online art community, DeviantArt. It's launched its own AI feature, but the way it's been executed didn't go down well with many members.
This is an incredibly bad idea that seems almost hand-crafted to alienate and enrage the DeviantArt userbase. Even if muddying the artistic waters by embracing AI was a good idea , requiring an opt-out instead of an opt-in was a completely unforced error.DeviantArt, a social network of artists and art enthusiasts that claims to have 61 members, has launched its own AI art generator.
If artists accept use of their style, they'll be"clearly credited" on any output when it's published on DeviantArt. The platform also recognised that not everyone considers AI art to be real art, so it said all DreamUp submissions would automatically be tagged as #AIArt so that users can choose whether they want to see or hide posts.
DeviantArt has decided your artwork there is fair game to be used in their new AI generator by default. You have to go to an obscure form to opt-out and requires 10 days to be reviewed. https://t.co/CZhnuXk39sThe scale of the backlash caused DeviantArt to change its policy almost immediately. It's now saying that all work will be excluded by default, with artists needing to opt in rather than opt out.