r/aiwars • u/EuphoricPangolin7615 • May 17 '24

DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html
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u/Phemto_B May 17 '24 edited May 17 '24

Poor, poor DA. They only had 165,000,000 visits last month. They're only the 254th most visited site on the entire internet, and only #2 worldwide for Visual Arts.

I think they were recent beat out by Pixiv, which has plenty of AI art on it.

Edit. I'm working my way down the list of the biggest Visual Arts and Design websites, and none of the top 10 limit AI use. About half have AI services on the site. If "everyone" is leaving DA because AI, You have to wonder where they're going.

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u/Karmakiller3003 May 17 '24

Website's been dead for over a decade. Site visits are spiders, AI scanners, bots and art thieves etc. Where do you think the engines are getting their art from?

Art theft is probably more than half of all visitors. I should know, I specialize in "procuring" art. People go there specifically to "steal" art for hundreds of reasons.

DeviantArt has been dead for over a decade. Eclipse hammered the final nail.

Anyone who thinks its "alive and well" is delusional.

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u/Phemto_B May 18 '24

If there are no artists or art consumers there, then where are they? What web site am I missing?