Yesterday I tried an ongoing trend on Instagram that was searching for your username on Google, and I found out someone had recently posted some of my artworks from here to Danbooru. Like really recently (the page said "posted 6 hours ago" when I found it). I usually post my drawings with the Creative Commons license and I know that in legal terms you don't really have to ask, but... these two didn't have that CC box checked out. It clearly states "You may not use this work for any purposes".

Please, if you repost an artwork from an artist, always ASK them about it beforehand.

It's out of politeness, and I'm sure that in most cases the artist will be happy about it.

Danbooru is sadly popular for its misuse for AI training datasets even if the own webpage is anti-AI. If you check the site's contact links, the first paragraph is about NovelAI's misuse of the database, and that you have to send an email to them in order to get your art taken down off the platform.

I'm in no way a professional artist nor a popular one. But still I want to make sure none of my work is used on AI training data so, prevention is better than the cure (it sounds better in spanish tbh)

From now on every single thing I'll upload here will be glazed + downscaled to a lower resolution so no one can use it on AI datasets. And while I'm sure there's good-intentioned people out there, many others choose not to ask and just simply repost something they like without asking for permission. I know I know, CC allows people to repost without asking for explicit permission, but it's out of politeness than anything else. Newgrounds doesn't have any more licenses than Creative Commons when it comes to posting art, so I'm a little bit baffled I can't do anything about it but to clearly state it myself.

I believe internet has sadly made people too comfortable with the feeling of entitlement that comes with having so much information at the palm of oneself's hand. That once something is posted, they can do whatever with it since it's "publicly available and free. If you don't want that, don't do it".

It's pretty disencouraging, but eh. Things happen.