UPDATE All Deviations Are Opted Out of AI Datasets

UPDATE: Manage your AI labels using Studio

Using the new Studio feature, you can bulk edit the "NoAI" and "Created with AI" labels on both your drafts and your published deviations. Configure your own default labels on all of your submitted content using the presets feature, or create your own templates with different AI labels.

UPDATE: We heard the community feedback, and now all deviations are automatically labeled as NOT authorized for use in AI datasets.

AI generators were trained using datasets collected from the open web. This includes content from creator platforms like DeviantArt, Pinterest, Twitter, and more. This was done without DeviantArt's permission and without your permission.

To help prevent your work from being used by third party AI datasets without your consent, we implemented a flag to tell AI datasets not to use your art.

All deviations on the platform are not authorized for inclusion in third-party datasets used to train artificial-intelligence models — unless you choose to opt in.

DeviantArt has introduced the noai and noimageai directives to unambiguously communicate absence of such authorization. When an artist declares that their content may not be used as input to AI models, an HTML tag with the noimageai directive is placed on the page and an HTTP header with the noai directive is sent when the image is directly downloaded from DeviantArt’s servers.

In order to remain in compliance with DeviantArt's updated Terms of Service, third parties that continue to use DeviantArt-sourced content to train machine-learning models of any kind must ensure their training data set excludes all content for which either of these directives are present.

DeviantArt encourages other creator platforms to adopt this approach in order to ensure artists remain able to share their work with online audiences while retaining control over non-human usage.

IMPORTANT: 

• DeviantArt did not, does not, and will not use deviations submitted to DeviantArt to add to third-party AI models or training sets, or on DreamUp itself.

• DeviantArt did not consent to third-party technology usage of images on our site, which were used to train AI models. In an effort to combat future unauthorized usage, we have enacted “noai” — an industry-first directive alerting AI models if deviants request for their work not to be used.

• DeviantArt is the only platform giving creators the ability to tell third-party AI datasets and models whether or not their content can be used for training. This is a protection for creators to help them safeguard their content across the web.

• We encourage other platforms who enable creators to publish their work to implement similar protections. We are making our “noai” directive available for use by all.

For Artists: How To Tell AI Datasets Not To Use Your Content

We're adding the ability to flag all your deviations, telling AI datasets they can't use your content. This is selected by default.

For Developers: Implementing noai or noimageai

Developers can implement these directives in two ways.

Meta Tag

<meta name="robots" content="noimageai">

and/or

<meta name="robots" content="noai">

HTTP Response Header

X-Robots-Tag: noimageai

and/or

X-Robots-Tag: noai