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If you're afraid of crawlers that will feed into AI datasets, why not just render images into canvas elements? This kind of watermark makes images bad for ever

• wongarsu 3y ago
  Most artists don't have control over the way their image is rendered. They just use Deviantart or Instagram, because that's where the communities are.
  • nomel 3y ago
    Sounds like a good feature to attract artists, with relatively little effort.
    • creata 3y ago
      If a site as big as DeviantArt tries something like "draw it to a canvas", people will just build automatic workarounds.
      • XorNot 3y ago
        No people just won't be able to find anything on DeviantArt. Let's not pretend there is not a quid-pro-quo here. If you render to canvas, then you can't be indexed by Google Image Search. If you can't indexed by GIS, then how are most people going to find anything they're looking for? You could entirely prevent direct indexing by crawlers by simply throwing authentication in front of the image requiring people to agree to a TOS before viewing it but that's not done because in reality 99% of what's there is of no particular value to anyone to be worth the hassle. EDIT: Although I'm also not seeing how this would protect against anything? The AI generators are de-noising algorithms, and the effect of this is simply to add noise to an image. But their whole mechanism of action is based on whether they roughly know what the things in an image should look like, and then to denoise the image towards that.