TLDR: Giving up on the dA site, account staying, only posting necessary art and taking commission payment, deleting some art I adore. Links at the bottom where else you can find me. Might make twitter soon but no guarantee. Thank you for your support. (feel free to continue messaging me here, I'll still check on a daily basis) So if you haven't read anything about it, I am presenting you my limited knowledge of what's happening here. dA is allowing AI to learn from our art as training. Even if I tick the box saying I can opt out from that, there's apparently still the chance it could be used? I'm confused by their little question mark tip box on the side saying "Please note that DeviantArt cannot guarantee that it will not appear in any third party datasets". If you can't protect my art here I'm not contributing more than just for species group I still care about. Years ago when I was still passionate about dA I promised myself I will never leave. That was based on the status