MShadowy

Well, ever more platforms keep pushing on the IPO Valuation bug, I guess. So I'm kinda switchin' over from patreon to subscribestar in the coming days. *sighs*

Well, shit. Given the stuff that da announced regarding AI art and starting their own neural net bullshit, and then putting putting obstacles in the way of opting out, which might not actually do anything, I might just have to delete this account. I don't really wanna do that, I'm no fan of tearing up my roots, but I don't see much option unless they significantly change or abandon this effort. In an ideal world, the technology behind this wouldn't be a problem. In a certain sense new technological developments are ethically neutral; what gives them a moral dimension is the context in which they are created and put to use. Sadly, we don't live in a world where the development of neural networks is even a mixed good, one where there are positives that outweigh the negatives; instead we live in a world where new tech gets aggressively monetized, where new avenues of exploitation are pursued without much, if any, regard for who gets hurt in the process; deviantart has not been an

I gotta admit, even after figuring out how it functions I feel like the new notifications feature da is trying with Eclipse is... not good. I can live with everything else with the new style but this just seems bad.