craneswinter

I came back to dA because I admired its stance on N/F/Ts, and the way it handled takedowns from third party sites. The flip to engage and encourage AI, and the disastrous way they've been handling it is a very helpful push to cancel my Core membership and delete my work. Honestly I've never had much luck on this site in the entire time I've used it, and the Core membership I got was specifically because of that aforementioned admiration. In the end it's an easy decision to let go of a platform that actively works against the interests of artists, using AI software that already scraped my and other images, only then to hide behind the smokescreen of an opt out button that ultimately means nothing due to the already done scraping. All this while encouraging the disgusting rhetoric that non-artists and AI thieves use, claiming that AI is the same as the literal years artists put their passion and heart into learning, from references, artist influences, etc. Frequently used is also the