TriasTheDinoArtist

Hey everyone, I just want to leave this here in case you want to follow me on other places. https://www.furaffinity.net/user/trias https://inkbunny.net/TriasTheDinoArtist https://triasthedinoartist.newgrounds.com/ https://twitter.com/TriasTheDinoArt Despite all the justified moral outrage DA and ArtStation alike are more interested in betraying the craft of art as well as their respective communities. I can not in good consciousness let this website steal my work in order for it to be plainly scraped for some dataset, which will then be sold as a product. "AI" (or rather MLA: machine learning algorithm, because this is literally all it is) is simply a business model that functions on stolen ressources and these companies value their profit over any sort of morality there is. The unethical behaviour and lack of self reflection has not ceased to deeply unsettle me. The last row of uploads I shared here were images I actually deemed against the guidelines here, however since I

So apparently it's become commonpractice already to charge money if you "want" to see stolen art work from some algorithm. Heck, I could swear I can make out some style elements I have seen done by real people. https://www.deviantart.com/mr-xxxxt (censored for privacy reasons, ironically) Don't fret though, the AI itself is not gonna profit from anything, neither will you or I ~ but this person there does. I have been thinking quite a bit about it lately. AI art defenders usually call it a "tool" without explaining what the tool is supposed to be for, then think they make a point by explaining how the theft works. Honest concerns are being met with either arrogance or willful ignorance. https://e621.net/posts/3816194 I'm honestly sorry that I can't be a better person about this than I currently am, but I will move forward relentlessly blocking people, using -tags and blacklist features whenever I can. AI image generators are only able to function the way they do because our