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AI in it's current form, especially where Stable Diffusion and Midjourney are concerned. Is UNETHICAL. Their datasets are created by scraping our artworks, photos, private medical records, and more unsavoury images to create the images they generate. Without our Artwork and unwillingly taken property. These AI systems would not exist in their current form.
DeviantART knows this. And has willingly opened the floodgates. AI generated images dominate and flood the front page. Many of which are not tagged correctly, and nothing is being done to enforce this. They now also sell their own version of Stable Diffusion (dreamUP), and as such are endorsing, and profiting off these unethical systems.
If you care, repost this image. Show DeviantART that this is not what a artists site should be about. Real artists made this site what it is today. Not AI generators. Lets make a stand!
AI generated images have a right to exist just like any other kind of art. Because art is not defined by the viewer, but by the creator, who says from his point of view what art is or isn't.
We have exactly the same constellation here as we did 20 years ago when drawing programs, digital art etc. came onto the market. It was new and traditional artists feared for their existence. Now AI is around the corner and all traditional and digital artists are running amok.
It's called progress and you won't be able to stop it with a few ridiculous actions like this. On the contrary - instead of demonizing it, ways should be found for fair coexistence. And I say that as a traditional artist, digital artist and now AI artist. To me, all 3 types of art are equally appealing and important.
Of course you can discuss how AI content is generated, it's a new technology and sooner or later ways will be found to monetize it fairly for everyone involved.