Message aside, the site is cool, love that you can change the style, and the icon animation on the last one is brilliant. Also: a webring! It’s been a long time since I saw one. I need more of this web and I’m happy to rediscover it.

As annoying as she was, Fi from Skyward Sword almost made me cry at the end of the game. Well, a couple of tears.

I’m on 141.0.3

Same, yet I don’t see any AI stuff (thankfully!). Maybe I’m missing something. Anyway, yes, screw any opt-out feature. I feel your pain.

How come I don’t see any of that AI stuff on my install? It’s a regional thing? OS-based?

Those were my thoughts. Now I’m also thinking of making it mandatory to include a piece of paper or whatever with the username written on it and have it show by the artwork on the progress photos. That could add a layer of complexity for the fakers.

The sad part is that all these will make the submitting process slower and more tedious, but that’s the world we live in. But I guess artists will understand.

Exactly. Truly sad. And I’m confident most users will respect the rules, specially if they have to provide evidence of previous works (on public profiles) and they are proud of their work. The thing is… how do you know when AI is getting harder to spot?

Do you make it a rule to include hands or whatever in the art? That’s just a crazy and almost funny idea, but one that at some point won’t even matter. So previous work and, yes, progress pics or videos, are what I can think of. The other option could be to just admit that it is inevitable to have some bad apples and deal with it as long as it’s a minority.