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