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Midjourney is not your art
I don't come here a lot anymore.
But when I do, I do so to see what's getting produced by the community. "What's popular today? Is it still provocative overweight anime horses and sexy lingerie model photography?" Usually it is...on the front page, at least. Having helped build this site into something-more-than-nothing I know that the front page, for all its purported attempts at sophisticated algorithmic-based sorting, is not really a reflection of the talents of the millions of members.
However, it is a reflection of what's hot right now. And what's hot right now is AI-generated imagery. DALL-E 2, Midjourney, and probably 2-3 others that escape me right now.
There are a number of reasons why you folks should not upload this stuff:
Under the ToS of most of these systems, you don't personally own the art. The art is owned by the creators of the software that generated it.
The art is generated by a system that scrapes the web looking for imagery it can categorize as something. It
New Site Design
Wasn't there a new site design for dA coming ~ 2.5 years ago? What happened?
7 Notes On Deviantart's New Branding.
A few people have asked me my thoughts on the new branding. I'm sure people are expecting scathing commentary or something sinister, but I'm not about that. The people working here are great folks, but I'd be remiss not to offer some constructive criticism about a subject I've practiced and studied for well over a decade (logo design and branding) on a site I've been a member of for equally as long. What better place to do it than right on the site itself?Here we go:1. This site is LONG overdue for a reimagining of its brand. It took balls to undertake it.2. It took balls because the community at large will hate it. Not because it's bad, b...
The new Hunie.co and the success of critiques
Hi there.
It's been a long while since I've written much of anything of length. Although I intended, at one point, to write my thoughts down in a journal/blog post on a frequent basis, time has a way of becoming packed and one day you wake up and realize you haven't put words to pixels in far too long.That all said, I wanted to touch on something that a good friend has been working on. In part, because he's a good friend and deserves to be written about. In another part, because I'd like you to try out what he's been building.Before we get into the new Hunie.co , let's touch upon the notion of critique. A long long time ago, in a galaxy f...
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