https://news.artnet.com/art-world/deviantart-dreamup-ai-generator-creators-rights-2208555
- lmao that this is what they're framing as "fair" and "ethical"
- the one good thing about this announcement is the noai/noimageai robots tag
- this would be a five minute change to slap onto cohost globally
- you might wonder how I know this
- :)
- today is a company holiday so there's nothing else to announce today, check back monday (edit: we all checked in long enough to code review it and approve a staff post)
- you might wonder how I know this
- this would be a five minute change to slap onto cohost globally
FAQ
Q: by bulk opting people out, you're ignoring artists' wishes about having their work uploaded into AI datasets!
A: they can also host their images somewhere else if they want to have their work turned into pink slime so bad.
Q: if web sites use these directives too broadly, AI model vendors will just ignore them!
A: yeah I know, this happened with the do not track flag too -- microsoft announced that IE would send it by default starting with IE 10, and then advertisers announced that There Is Absolutely No Way To Know What User Intent Is So We're Just Going To Ignore It.
this reflects better on microsoft than on ad vendors, and reveals the fact that fundamentally, the core purpose of these opt-outs is to do free PR work for the people who are doing unethical data-harvesting under the proviso that it doesn't affect their bottom line too bad.