As people who follow what I’ve had to say on AI “Art”, I'm more ambiguous on it than most Mastodonians, but having spent a bit of time on #DeviantArt with the filter off, oh my!
It's pretty foolish to let your platform be spammed like that, some people are auto-uploading dozens a day. I think even the prompting is automated. And it's just so… boring . Barely get any engagement anyhow.
It's certainly clarified for me that my reaction to AI art is definitely ‘boring, don't care’, I don't need to reason myself into disliking it! #Art#AI#DeviantArt
It would be interesting to know what the history of it is, because the account is old, and presumably was a real person at some point. Original account owner gone to the dark side? Sold? Hacked?
If anyone is on DeviantArt, I have decided to revive my old account. DeviantArt is really where I got started, and I kinda like it's crazy messiness. https://www.deviantart.com/nyctopterus
After spending a couple of days on #DeviantArt, I realise that it really has a lot for artists that I missed. People look at your old stuff! There are staff actively curating and promoting art. People comment, a lot.
The reverse-chronological (or even algorithmic) feeds are difficult for artists. It's kinda depressing when your two or three artwork posts a month get swamped in a sea of one-liners, and then lost to time.