Simultaneously, DeviantArt launched an initiative that ostensibly lets artists opt out of AI image training but also made everyone's art opt-in by default, which angered many members.

Andrew Gass, counsel for DeviantArt, argued Wednesday that the art platform should be dismissed from the action because it merely used Stable Diffusion to produce images for its DreamUp AI tool but ...

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