DeviantArt upsets artists with its new AI art generator, DreamUp

Given the uproar from artists around SD, this move from DeviantArt seems a bit tone deaf.

it's actually worse than tone deaf because they clearly understand why people are mad well enough to propose fake solutions.

Are you referring to their opt-out from training? Artists were complaining about not being able to say no to training on their works.

Looks more like trolling their community because they dont matter in this shift.

The opting program is conpletely unnecessary, we shouldnt even be debating about it being optin by default with opt out being the choice, the opting program shouldnt have been done at all. AI models will be trained on everything visible whether DeviantArts is going to respect a flag or somebody else’s Stable Diffusion model doesnt. Poor taste to say its opt in by default knowing the AI can read it all extremely quickly and probably already has and will never forget. They could have just handled the backlash without an opting feature.