I can't believe I deleted the entire back catalog of my art for nothing
...is what I would say if I actually did delete it. But I didn't. In fact, all I did was put it in storage (an easily reversible action) to wait out this situation and see what dA would do. They've since gone into full damage control mode and gave people the option to flag their galleries with a tag that says they don't want their art used in ai stuff
https://twitter.com/DeviantArt/status/1591239714098806785
In light of all this information I'm sure what you all are wondering is what I'm going to do with all the art now. Well I flagged my gallery with the noai tag, so I'll probably pull it all back out of storage. I'm still wary of what dA might do once everything quiets down, but at least there's some small comfort.
There is something else I wanted to touch on though. Coming back here to post that journal yesterday made me realize that there are a lot of people here who probably don't even know I'm still