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I love your 4koma type formats :)
@raghukamath
Hasn't this always been the original comics format, i.e. "comic strip"?
Very old comic strip featuring Mickey Mouse
@post@raghukamath We can go deeper πŸ˜‰ https://i.pinimg.com/originals/79/9a/63/799a6304973a89e6abde61be58369353.jpg

Thanks Raghukamath :blobcatheart: It's part of my testing/experimentation. Try comic with a low time/production/panel budget, this way I'll probably learn to make smaller Pepper&Carrot episodes, because I was expanding them so much on the last year they became unmanageable to produce. I'll write more about this on a blog next week. I'm learning how to find 6 pages " a comfortable device to storytell complex things". ☺️
For those (like me) who are out of the loop: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/deviantart-upsets-artists-with-its-new-ai-art-generator-dreamup/.

TL;DR: DeviantArt created an art generator called DreamUp based on Stable Diffusion, and art uploaded by the site’s users will be used for training unless they opt out.
An ActivityPub-federated alternative to DeviantArt/ArtStation would be nice especially if it will let you manage and update assets/sources attached to artworks.
@post I wonder if a https://pixelfed.org/ large instance might do the trick (for the 'portfolio' view).
@Post
It's great that the Fediverse features different implementations that resemble mainstream social networks (Mastodon/Twitter and PixelFed/Instagram) and this is why I would iterate for DeviantArt/ArtStation too (PixelFed looks too much like Instagram for this purpose)
ahah πŸ˜‚πŸ˜­ laughing and crying, what a week
What? Oh no. 😱😭
Deviantart: Is this the line for getting into trouble for massive IP and creator rights issues?

Github: Yes, it is.
@eldelacajita Except that artists may have granted DeviantArt the right to do that in the submission guidelines which are part of the terms of service: https://www.deviantart.com/about/policy/submission/ @davidrevoy
Isn’t ArtStation supposed to be the thing, now, anyway? :P
@Poulpette Yes, they are dominant on this market right now. But they have been bought by Epic Game, and I guess because Epic now co-own the right on all uploads/artworks on the platform, they'll try soon to use these data for something similar. I was sure this type of IA move would comes from Binance (Adobe) or Artstation (Epic Game) first, from deviantArt it's a bit unexpected.
Binance is a crypto exchange, did you mean Behance?
@michcia

OOpsie. Right! You see my brain starts to fusion all the concept "that doesn't spark joy" in a same basket πŸ˜…

Thanks for the correction and your feedback!

@Poulpette
J'ai du mal Γ  comprendre comment ils en sont venus Γ  se dire que c'Γ©tait une bonne idΓ©e... et comment ils ont pu vraiment la mettre en pratique πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ
@nyandzette Moi aussi. Ils aurait pu au moins faire un blog-post pour prendre la temperature avant de mettre les deux pieds dans le plat.

Peut-Γͺtre un vote unanyme des actionnaires/shareholders devant des projections de courbes positive financiΓ¨re faites par un bureau d'Γ©tude bien crapuleux?
these are sad times for artists indeed.. Your nice comic strip is perfectly on point
That's the cutest comic bird since Tweety. Awesome style as always.
I mentioned this topic to my friend and they did some digging and it looks like it was a huge misunderstanding on Deviantart's side? Apparently people who manage their official Twitter fucked up the announcement.

Here is a link to the latest reblogs: https://at.tumblr.com/thefloatingstone/velvety-vixen-i-actually-specifically-brought/zv5wwpejs4zz

There is more to it tho: https://at.tumblr.com/drawingden/your-post-about-deviantarts-ai-related-changes-is/6pirtajjeaz2

There even is a form to fill if you want to opt out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBl3RIkgoVJh89rWOSd-bz_FdlCZGSUho4ADhG2rmCq3dVPg/viewform
@the_luck_witch Oh yes, I agree (read this thread https://mastodon.art/@reinderdijkhuis/109327285432913484 for more) and they backpedaled a lot since the original announcement. (src. https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/UPDATE-All-Deviations-Are-Opted-Out-of-AI-Datasets-934500371 ) but still, what a communication mess at the scale of a community. A big bullet in their own foot could have been avoided with more communication and a better default option right of the box.

Also, all my artworks from DeviantArt are easy to find on https://haveibeentrained.com/ , so I guess the evil is already done...πŸ˜”
Yep, they definitely did perform a massive foot shooting. My friends mutual worded it as: "No matter how logical and well-intentioned the product was, no one could listen under the immediate fight-or-flight response this announcement created".

I don't have very impressive art on the site, but damn did I not go to specifically opt out all that I felt I don't want used for such a thing.
@the_luck_witch
You could try a GDPR data deletion request. If enough people do that someone might sue them for their model. This site might help

https://yourdigitalrights.org/

@aral used it to demand deletion of his Twitter data:
https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109285601132488401
I wish there was an #ActivityPub project with features and UI similar to the likes of #DeviantArt. #Pixelfed is not it, #MediaGoblin is long dormant and way behind. There's nothing but if music has #Funkwhale, there's definitely a place to be made for art!
This is so accurate it hurts. Great work David! 😁
I miss Deviant Art from back in the day. It was so cool.
still amazes me that DeviantArt is still around
I may have missed something but... can't I DELETE my account on #DeviantArt? Only deactivate it?
screenshot of my DevianArt account. I only see one entry for "deactivation" of the account, not "deleting the account"
@Petit_Lutin Ha, I never went to this section. Not sure what their ToS says about that. In any case, the word is really badly chosen, it really feels like a simple 'offline' deactivation. Bad.
@lemonheep Oh yes, true. I started to use Twitdesk because of that, but the image preview was smaller (they fixed it recently) and the prominent display of the like/reshare 'score' felt always wrong to me. Like if this amount tried to 'nudge' my appreciation of an artwork. I'm so happy the count here is not that prominent.
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