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I might be finally leaving dA
I've been on this site for a very long time and I have a lot of good memories related to it. I've made friends, I used to be active in groups, participated in contests (still own two ancient Deviantart t-shirts!), even had the opportunity to be commissioned by Deviantart on behalf of companies like Blizzard and SyFy. It was disappointing to see the site declining over the years due to a number of bad decisions that repeatedly failed to take users' suggestions into account, but I still logged in every now and then for nostalgia's sake. After all, it was the community that made Deviantart enjoyable back in the day, not the site itself. But Deviantart's latest update with regards to AIs and datasets https://t.co/U4qIyC2Cv6 might be the final straw for me. The fact that all our work is considered free to use by default and opting out is so tedious and difficult is not just a bad decision, but a calculated effort to take advantage of users. The opt-out form doesn't even seem to prevent
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I might be finally leaving dA
I've been on this site for a very long time and I have a lot of good memories related to it. I've made friends, I used to be active in groups, participated in contests (still own two ancient Deviantart t-shirts!), even had the opportunity to be commissioned by Deviantart on behalf of companies like Blizzard and SyFy. It was disappointing to see the site declining over the years due to a number of bad decisions that repeatedly failed to take users' suggestions into account, but I still logged in every now and then for nostalgia's sake. After all, it was the community that made Deviantart enjoyable back in the day, not the site itself. But Deviantart's latest update with regards to AIs and datasets https://t.co/U4qIyC2Cv6 might be the final straw for me. The fact that all our work is considered free to use by default and opting out is so tedious and difficult is not just a bad decision, but a calculated effort to take advantage of users. The opt-out form doesn't even seem to prevent
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A Mistresspiece
Your shoulders I crafted
out of feathers of
graphite,
your eyes out of
37,
Oriental Blue.
But when you actually
looked at me,
they weren’t
Oriental Blue
at all,
and I was
a little
ashamed
that I had got them so
wrong.
The classical curve
of your shoulders
was different
too.
I thought that trying to
draw you had been
useless,
because you were
a statue, really –
But, you know,
even if Rodin had tried to
sculpt you,
he wouldn’t have got you
exactly right –
because he wouldn’t have seen you
that day you had that
odd expression on your face –
it was in the crowd of commuters,
right be
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