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DevART's latest debacle You've probably heard recently over social media that DevART decided to go in on allowing AI-Artwork into their platform (https://twitter.com/DeviantArt/status/1591113199218487300). They thought it was a good idea to automatically opt-in all of us so that 3rd parties could use our artwork to generate their own without our concent. Naturally, many artists were outraged and called DevART out on this decision. Thankfully, the Higher-Ups have responded swiftly to the backlash and switched the auto-opt-in for all uploaded art to not allow 3rd parties to copy our work, making it optional, which is what they should have done in the first place at the very least in my opinion. My Thoughts on AI-Generated Art Granted, I'm still learning about artificial intellegence-generated art. I can see it having it's uses in the more practical sense of visual imagry, like marketing or architecture, but in terms of making artwork; a visual randition of one's thoughts, feelings