Everything in my Gallery is removed, I will no longer be posting to this site after the series of AI promoting posts I have seen on Twitter/X directly from DA. I cannot condone, nor support that kind of nonsense. The amount folks make off of AI is abhorrent, and the fact that they are being trained off of some incredible artist without their consent makes this even worse. Shame on you DeviantArt for supporting theft of intellectual property and the work that others put so much time into to create.
These AI "artists" make more money than I can dream of simply because they can put in a prompt that shits out things that they "can sell". They shouldn't be selling this shit, it's dropping the market for adopts and making those of us who cannot keep up with the pace, let alone be able to ask so little, unable to afford things we need to live.
Literally, I CANNOT make 25k in less than a year. I struggle to sell anything I put up. I struggle to gain an audience... And then you have these