Even if deleting your gallery on a known AI art site (such as Instagram or DeviantART) "won't help," it is still beneficial to do so anyway, as well as no longer sharing your art on or interacting with the website that is actively feeding your work into their AI. DeviantART in particular is nothing without the artists whose shoulders they stand on and these corpo clowns need to be reminded of that.
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I draw when I want to purely for self expression; I won't capitulate to tech bro oligarchy by stowing myself away in fear of data processing. If anything—now more than ever—we need folks who are willing to be more open with their art and their voices, not less. We need a willingness to be shared, derived, and freely experienced amongst culture that is willing to share back. Copyright was never for the working class; hopefully this worldwide scale "theft" makes that crystal clear for others out there.
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