Been a little bit, has it?
Hello.
I apologize for the lack of "Look! AI!" kind of posts. I unfortunately have a life outside of the AI-Art-Thieves office, so I wasn't able to catch those seven-art idiots red handed.
....And it turns out that doing nothing did something.
It dwindled the number of active bots we have to deal with drastically.
Looks like moving their art thievery operations to DeviantArt didn't help them get the audience and attention they oh so craved.
At the moment, these are the bots that are currently active:
So far, I have found multiple ways to locate the source of the stolen work on DeviantArt:
- Throwing the bastardization into Google Lens and go from there, or...
- Use the tags to locate the piece:
You can do so by throwing in the tag right next to the "/tag/" of the url shown here:
Once you find the artist, you can alert them via their socials.
If you find the artist on tumblr, message them about this, but respectfully. I don't want a bunch of yahoos spamming shit in other peoples' message boxes.
As for the sevenart bots? Don't even give them your attention.
Don't reblog. Don't like. Don't even interact with them.
Let. Them. Starve.
Starving them will make their numbers decrease even further.
Focus your attention on figuring out what sevenart.ai actually is.
We can spread the word about this all we want, but nothing will ever be done until someone actively does something to stop the bots.
And unfortunately, I am but one person.
So don't just like and reblog this and hope that someone else will do the job. Actively help out by investigating the site and find a way to alert DeviantArt about this.
The battle isn't over until sevenart.ai is shut down.