Libis

Hi folks,

It's been a long time. I had deviations here from way back when I was a kid to when I was a young adult just out on my own. I had photos here of my now-deceased dog. I had so much here. Due to deviantART's disregard for artists in continuing to utilize Stable Diffusion for the DreamUP AI (and for supporting AI and NFTs in general) I will no longer be posting any art on this site. They have permanently lost my trust. Stable Diffusion uses images skimmed without consent from across the internet, including here, to create images. To add insult to injury, they initially opted us all in to have our art used further--only back tracking after great outcry. Clearly dA no longer cares about the artists it was allegedly for to begin with. I cried while deleting everything today. This used to be a special place to me and this has felt like a betrayal from an old friend. To the other artists here: I wish you the best. To those running the site: you had a chance to benefit from everyone leaving Twitter and now you've come out looking even worse. You have lost my trust and that of many others forever.