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Here I am, back again to pass along some knowledge on how to protect you and your art against generative AI. In fact, I’ve got a few posts happening now, and I’m sure more will come as the technology evolves, so I’m going to start a new category for blog posts under “protecting your art“. You can always subscribe to get blog updates from me if you’re interested in hearing more about these things as they emerge.

Today I’m going to teach you a little bit about the inner workings of web crawlers and how to utilize a robots.txt file to block certain crawlers from accessing your website.

Yesterday, the internet was taken by storm by DeviantArt’s announcement of some new services and features. Many people focused on the fact that DeviantArt announced an AI generator of their own, and that by default, images uploaded to DeviantArt were opted in to being allowed to be used for AI training (though not specifically DeviantArt’s AI called “DreamUp”). DeviantArt has since reversed its stance on opt in (now making opt out the default, which should have been the case to begin with), but there were a lot of different, loosely related ideas that were part of this announcement that, unfortunately, were missed. One of these is the release of the “noai” and “noimageai” meta tags, which will help you have more control over whether or not your art is used to train AI image generators.