HazelRose3637 - Hobbyist, General Artist | DeviantArt (original) (raw)

My gallery is now empty, and likely always will be

Jun 16, 2023

Hello fellow deviants, Well wouldn't ya know it, apparently ai stealing fanfic and/or people feeding a writer's fic into ai without the writer's permission is becoming a hot new thing to do. So, I have taken down what little remained of my DA posts, rendering my DA gallery (which used to hold 10 YEARS worth of art and fanfic) totally empty. I can't begin to express how sad, disappointed, and frustrated I am. I used to absolutely love sharing my art/writing online and reading people's comments/interactions with it. But now it's just a struggle of artist/writer vs ai/those who use ai for selfish purposes. I barely have the heart to look at my DA account anymore. All I ever see is an unrecognizable shell that used to be such an awesome platform/community for me. To add to this, DA literally makes you PAY them before you get the basic right of having your art/writing protected from theft AND they support NFTs which is basically allowing thieves to steal artists' work and profit from