UPDATE All Deviations Are Opted Out of AI Datasets by team, journal
UPDATE All Deviations Are Opted Out of AI Datasets
UPDATE: We heard the community feedback, and now all deviations are automatically labeled as NOT authorized for use in AI datasets. AI generators were trained using datasets collected from the open web. This includes content from creator platforms like DeviantArt, Pinterest, Twitter, and more. This was done without DeviantArt's permission and without your permission. To help prevent your work from being used by third party AI datasets without your consent, we implemented a flag to tell AI datasets not to use your art. All deviations on the platform are not authorized for inclusion in third-party datasets used to train artificial-intelligence models — unless you choose to opt in. DeviantArt has introduced the noai and noimageai directives to unambiguously communicate absence of such authorization. When an artist declares that their content may not be used as input to AI models, an HTML tag with the noimageai directive is placed on the page and an HTTP header with the noai directive
DeviantArt Protect: 80,000 NFT Alerts Sent by team, journal
DeviantArt Protect: 80,000 NFT Alerts Sent
DeviantArt Protect now scans over 3.8 million new NFT images every week, and since the addition of NFT protection in August 2021, over 80,000 alerts regarding potential NFT infringement have been sent. The increase in popularity of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has been notable in recent months, and with it, the issue of art theft related to NFTs has also grown dramatically. The amount of DeviantArt Protect alerts sent for NFT infringements grew throughout the last three months of 2021, showing increases of: 30% from September to October 100% from October to November Over 300% from November to mid-December In mid-December, we rolled out an additional layer of protection through DeviantArt Protect—including monitoring and blocking mechanisms—to safeguard and defend deviants against malicious bots that copy art without permission to mint as NFTs. While the issue of bot-related art theft continues to be a hot topic in the NFT space, DeviantArt is seeing positive results with our
Celebrating Deviousness - January 2022 by team, journal
Celebrating Deviousness - January 2022
In Recognition of Exemplary Membership and an Outstanding Spirit of helpfulness and mentoring within the DeviantArt community January 2022's Deviousness Award Recipient: @telthona Reciprocity, the act of equally giving what you take, is @telthona’s super power. A deviant for almost two decades, she has grown within DeviantArt and benefited from community feedback and direction. Now she is a titan in her field and creating incredible concepts for a plethora of big name companies and she still makes time to comment, mentor and share with others. Her talent equals to her kindness and we are excited to award @telthona with Deviousness for January 2022. Hi everybody! My name is Sandra Duchiewicz, but people on the internet might know me as Telthona! I joined DeviantArt in 2003 - I stumbled upon digital art for the first time here, in this teal community - which means that DA deeply inspired me and was a source of my fascination with digital painting. This platform was incredibly