jbz on Nostr: 🔥 How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ...

🔥 How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ghost town | Slate

"Generate a bunch of free images and accounts, have them buy and boost one another in perpetuity, inflate metrics so that the “art” gets boosted by DeviantArt and reaches real humans, then watch the money pile up from DeviantArt revenue-sharing programs. Rinse, repeat."

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

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