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What I'd give to see the user retention stats at DeviantArt ever since they allowed it to be filled absolutely wall-to-wall with the most boring AI art you've e
by jsheard 2y ago
What I'd give to see the user retention stats at DeviantArt ever since they allowed it to be filled absolutely wall-to-wall with the most boring AI art you've ever seen. Not just allowed but encouraged by jumping on the bandwagon and integrating their own generator. Anecdotally it feels like there's not just an insane glut of AI slop drowning out everything else, but also less "everything else" over time due to user attrition.
It really can't be overstated just how much it's come to dominate the entire site, skimming the frontpage now I immediately spotted a generic Midjourney-core image and the creator has posted 4100 pieces to date after joining... two months ago. 68 uploads every day on average.
- vunderba 2y ago100%. It's intensely frustrating that they didn't at least firewall that vast amount of AI noise using a subdomain or something (e.g. ai.deviantart.com).
- jsheard 2y agoThey do have an AI tag that creators are supposed to set where applicable, and there's an option to hide everything with that tag, but the enforcement is weak so there's a lot of obvious AI spam which isn't tagged. Many of the AI spammers are using DAs monetization features or promoting a Patreon so they're incentivized to not set the AI tag to maximise their reach.
- yieldcrv 2y agoDeviantart was already noise of unappreciated forms of expressions People just use it as a hosting platform Sounds more like a UX issue that you can see galleries
- Mistletoe 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo This made real.