Hi everyone! Me again with a second post about this new development!
In lieu of a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding being spread, I wanted to share a lovely post by Sindonic here:
If you haven't already, please read over carefully what the new Dream up initiative is about, and please do not panic! DA is not taking your art for ai generators, in fact the noai tag does quite the opposite. Whether or not people choose to respect it is up to the particular ai art generator, which there are multiple different ones.
Leaving DA and posting your work publicly elsewhere does not decrease the chance of your work being used for ai generation whatsoever. In fact, our stuff has already probably been used for ai generation for a while now, as is the nature of public art sharing. That being said, the way the news was dropped and the rapid back-peddling of the noai check box was handled extremely poorly and it is completely understandable why people are mad/frustrated, and I