I hate AI with a burning passion, but what really ticks me the most is seeing AI in art related spaces. AI is taking over the art industry, I already know that and unfortunately I can't forbid everyone to generate AI, since most people that generate art probably don't have the brain function to understand why it's bad; the big problem? Going on DeviantArt and looking up anything, literally ANYTHING, and being flooded with AI. Mind you, DeviantArt is basically the Godfather of all Art sites, and this is absolutely insane. I've tried a lot of different searches, regarding mostly RPG and fantasy stuff, and I've been scrolling for, say 10 minutes and I have found two, TWO original Art pieces.

AI doesn't belong on DeviantArt or on any Art site.

If you want to generate fake art and destroy the planet, keep it to yourself.

People are generating AI images and then want to claim them as their "art" or they made this or they are "artists". AI generates anything on their own like a service provider. The only thing you do is to tell the AI what you want to see. This is the exactly same as you would tell an artist and they do the work for you. But the moment you get hand over the result you would claim it as your creation? Would you say you did this? No, because of copyright and common sense.

Telling someone to do art is something completely different than doing it by yourself. Just because the AI can't have any copyright on the image doesn't mean you have the copyright or are the original creator. You are just someone receiving generated content. You just have to change the content enough to stand out from the AI origin or you have to redraw it to claim it as yours in any way.

No matter what you try , ai "art" will never be art , report me all you want ai tech bro , cope all you want but in the near future ai wont be anymore respected then it is now

Tho that obviously a problem, my biggest issue with DA allowing AI is the fact that so many AI "artists" feel like they should fit in and be accepted. To all those people, i must say again, this is Deviant ART. Not devaint prompt writing. This site has been used by artists for 20 years. Just because in the last 2 years you've been allowed to post your AI garbage on it, doesn't mean you should be included in the community. This community is NOT for you and does not welcome you. You are not an artist. If you can't accept that, then go post your stuff on a platform specificaly for AI. But shockers, that doesn't exist, because NOBODY WANTS TO SEE IT.

Edit: This isn't an opinion, it's a simple basic fact. AI is stealing art from other people and trains itself on it. AI prompters can cry all they want, but the truth is that nobody on the internet likes AI images. Everyone who sees AI "art" reacts with "ewww". On youtube, on Twitter/X, on Instagram/TikTok, etc. AI prompters live in their own little bubble, where they think the world accepts them, when, in actuallity, nobody does.
And to all the prompters that try to justify their actions and seem compasionate, your argument is always "Yea, I know it does a lot of harm to artists and destroys the fabric of human creativity. But I don't care, because I like generating images so I can get aprooval from someone. Sry lolz". The fact that you admit how much bad it does, yet still use it, just shows how horrible you are as a person. And I gotta ask them a question. If you think you're moraly correct, then why do you make part of such a vile, verbaly violent, insecure, insensitive and sellfish group of people ? You should ask yourself that.
AI "art" is not art. Nobody accepts it as art. And nobody sees it like that. And just as I said above. NOBODY WANTS TO SEE IT.

"B-But it's not just prompts! I use photoshop too!" So you prompt something then spend a little while erasing the mistakes ? Wow. So noble and hardworking. Truly deserving of anyones time and attention. Give us a break. You know who actually works on what they do ? Artists that make things from scratch, out of pure passion and love for the subject.

Edit 2: There is a prompter in the reply section that, when he lost the argument, copied the other person's artwork through and AI generator and is now saying it's his own work. It's so funny how these people are the ones playing victim and are the first to abuse others.

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While I'd rather have no AI 'art', the ability to filter out anything produced by AI is a compromise I'm willing to accept. Unfortunately, it seems there are people who think their AI generated uploads are special and deserve to be seen by people who have explicitly decided they don't want to see endless slop.

The number of these people is rising by a notice amount and thanks to DeviantArt seemingly making no effort to enforce their own rules, it seems that the number of these people will just continue increasing indefinitely.

Team says that 95% of users won't see this. Let's also pull out some numbers

The team post specifies two users that downloaded 30+k images a month being a causing factor of this change.

Deviantart proudly boasts 110M users.

If we assume Ten Thousand users abuse downloads then 0.00909090909 PERCENT of users abuse downloads. 99.99090909% Of users are innocent and are being punished for the actions of the 0.00909090909%

99.9909090909%>95%

I visited the site while logged out and searched for "wendigo." Out of 24 results, only 2 were human-made artworks. The other 22 were AI slop. I couldn't see any more results while logged out.

That's, basically what I have to say. AI "art" is not real art. It's the amalgamation of thousands of stolen artworks and images forced into one souless pile. It's like blending hundreds of good foods into one bottle of slop. And don't even try and start with saying "it enables disabled people to make good art" because that in of it's self is ableist. That's my stance. You will not change it. Now take a shower.

Nobody asked for Eclipse to permanently take over DeviantArt. It would’ve been fine if it was kept as optional. The old design was easy to use and it was simple. Now it’s a pain in the fucking ass to navigate. I never used Eclipse and I never will. Congratulations, DeviantArt. You just ruined your website. First Tumblr, now DeviantArt. Both sites ruined by ignorant staff members.

I remember browsing deviantart used to be so fun back before 2021, Its hard to believe but a lot of the OG artists still have their work up on the site, its just harder to navigate since I dont know whats AI art and whats not.

I hope the site gives us the option to filter posts from before 2021 :(

Edit:

As a response to all the AI prompters in the comments, I've listed things that the community gains from actual digital artists and not AI artists

• Tutorials- Made by digital artists

• Accurate fanart of a niche character

• Comics /webcomics and storytelling (I haven't seen AI generate a coherent comic yet)

• Brush packs for procreate and photoshop

• Pose templates and bases for character artwork

• Artist challenges - Many digital artists will participate in making an artbook based around a theme

• I have yet to see AI make NSFW that isnt in an ugly visual novel slop style

• AI cant generate women of color without making them look stereotypical

• Mecha, electronics/ cyborgs made in AI usually has nonsensical details- the whole appeal of cyber themes in art is looking into the cool details and AI slop makes it unimaginative

• AI cant make Gojo pregnant and have it look beautiful - enough said

CAN AI EVER MAKE A DIRTBAG TOJI COMIC - even the best prompter would be useless as a creator unless they understood the fundamentals of making what an audience wants.

Truth is- people WANT funny comics and funny artwork, even if AI can draw objectively 'better' why would i want to see your AI generations when I could easily generate like 200 a month on Midjourney myself?

BUT things like THIS dirtbag Toji comic requires a deep understanding of not only the source material but also fan material and actual interaction with fans, its literally something AI cant make

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All of these blocked accounts starting with a lower case f were posting inappropriate AI pics of young girls. Deviant Art took a stand this week and deactivated every single one of their accounts. This is what it looks like when mods actually give a shit about their customers.

My faith in Deviant Art is restored...

Like goddamn I see so much Ai "artist" in the app no matter how much I say show me less like this or blocking the accounts.Fun fact you are not an artist if you "make" ai pictures.You type some words and ai steals some assets from the real artists.You are not an artist.Please whoever you are stop giving these people money because clearly they gets something's from this because we cant escape from ai "art"

Hello

It seems that the app has been completely wiped and delisted.

This is the only thing I saw when booting up the app

So... like... is this it?

I'm talking about accounts that consist of mostly, or all, "AI art" in their gallery. I noticed that DeviantART appears to be recommending a lot of them to me in the side bar of deviations. I'll see a cool thumbnail and click on it, only to see that the "art" and every other deviation was created by AI.

I don't know about you guys, but I want to see real art on DeviantART, not AI "art". At least one account I saw was also monetizing AI "art" from a free-to-use program (Midjourney) on DeviantART, as the "Access Premium Galleries" and "Download for $2.50" options were available on deviations.

I feel like the people monetizing these AI "art" accounts on DeviantART are scammers.

I know damn well that there's gonna be a lot of AI consumers that are gonna whine in the comments but I seriously don't even care. Cause I'm gonna put my COUPLE OF CENTS as to why people are not supporting your idea of AI generated images being "art". I left Deviantart for this reason as well as several other reasons but the AI issue is the main reason.

1. AI generated garbage is not art. It's AI generated imagery performed by a computer and all YOU did was type in a couple of words. That's not art. Hate to break it to ya.

2. It's trained off of other people's art work. A.K.A, STEALING. So imagine you're a real artist that takes the time off your day to make a good piece of artwork made my your own hands to suddenly come across an AI generated image that looks suspiciously like yours if not EXACTLY like yours and the person who posted it (wether they said it's AI or lie and say it's not when it's very obviously AI) is claiming they made it. Yeah... NOT A GOOD FEELING AT ALL!

3. It's very harmful for artists that are trying to make money off their hard work. Whether they're trying to make a living off of it or it's a side hustle, AI generated imagery making artists become UNNOTICED or the greedy scammy AI generator cave trolls are literally stealing money from artists that actually work to make real art. These types of people are more evil than Disney Villains.

I've seen so many AI stans making excuses as to why it's "art". I've heard many excuses like: "SoMe Of Us DoN't HaVe ThE tImE oR sKilL!", well that sounds like a LITERAL skill issue. "It'S bEtTeR tHaN yOuR aRt!¡!", wow you just exist to be the meanest person alive AND you're insecure. "At LeAsT wE mAkE mOrE mOnEy ThAn YoU!" You just have the same mindset as a greedy snobby CEO that would do anything to make a quick buck even if you have to literally replace your employees making less than minimum wage in this economy. These are excuses as to why AI stans are lazy, rude and greedy scammers.

And no, this is not the future, it's not staying it's slowly decaying. We are not fond of people that do this just to make real artists suffer. SUPPORT REAL ARTISTS!!! ✨✨✨

Just a random grab from my home feed. I'm not even sure if all the other stuff isn't also fake, but just less obviously so...

There is so much AI, and almost none of it is tagged as AI so I can’t filter it out. There is more ai than actual art whenever I search for something I want to browse. I miss all the wacky and goofy art I used to find, now it’s all buried under massive amounts of repetitive Ai images. After scrolling for 5 minutes I’ll maybe see a small handful of actual art, the rest is endless AI.

Going on DA isn’t fun anymore, it just makes me depressed.

I'm a professional artist and have nothing against artificial intelligence. I sometimes use it during my studies, for reference research, or to gain a different perspective.

This post isn't meant to spread hatred toward traditional "human" art or generative art.

I'd like this to be a peaceful conversation, even though I know my final thoughts might upset some people. But unfortunately, someone has to say certain things.

The world is full of people who practice art in every possible way. Every day, new ways of making art emerge, but there's one thing these people have in common: the desire to experiment and create.

I often scroll through my DeviantArt feed (and other social media) and come across works by people who probably don't want to make art at all, they just want to scam others for a quick buck.

This post is primarily dedicated to that kind of "art." The kind that, in the long run, risks ruining DeviantArt or any social media platform we own.

Everyone has the right to experiment, even those who know nothing about art and want to try using a simple tool like artificial intelligence to approach this profession. But undeniably, there are people who just want to scam others, have no real interest in art, want to make easy money, and feel smarter than everyone else. And I want to point out, all of this existed long before artificial intelligence.

Leaving everything free, letting everyone sell everything, risks disrupting the current market in the long run and teaching new generations a distorted view of this and other professions.

I think it's important to raise awareness as best we can, not to deny progress, but also not to end up promoting scams, pushing more and more people to rely on artificial intelligence out of laziness or because it's trendy.

And so, the crucial question: do you think DeviantArt should better regulate the sale of works? Today, unfortunately, I see a company that just wants to make money and doesn't care about ethics. But what can we artists, traditional, digital, and AI, do to make sure that work which has required years of practice actually counts?

This post is going to be a bit long because it involves a few technical hurdles that I need to explain clearly. This isn’t an “AI rant” — it’s about how DA quietly implemented an AI labeling system into the process. Its harming actual human artist in the long run.

Since I’ve never gotten a single reply from DA support, I’m posting this here to make some noise. Hopefully other artists dealing with the same issue can share their experiences.

Earlier this year, a friend who follows me mentioned he couldn’t see a few of my recent uploads. Out of curiosity, I made a new account to test it — but at first, I couldn’t replicate the problem.

Eventually, we figured it out: he had the “Hide/Show Less AI” setting turned on. When I enabled the same setting on my test account, my own art disappeared from my feed — despite being fully hand-drawn and not labeled as AI.

I ran more tests on the affected pieces. If I uploaded just my character layers, they showed up fine. But as soon as I included the background, the piece got flagged as AI, even though I didn’t check the AI label.

For context, I create my own backgrounds from scratch — nearly 70 layers of shading and complex blending brushes. I never use AI for them. I even ran the images through Hive and other AI detectors, all of which returned 0% AI, meaning they were certain my work was human-made. I also have full WIPs to prove it (though I won’t be sharing those here for various reasons). I spoke to another artist friend and we found that a few pieces of his works were being falsely flagged as AI too .

If you’re an artist who normally gets hundreds or thousands of favorites, have you noticed some pieces getting far fewer views lately? This might be why. It doesn't happen to all of our submission of course , only selected few pieces.

The irony? Actual AI-generated pieces are slipping through and flooding my feed — while some of my own work stays hidden.