Despite the name, Deviantart is not an art website. It's a pic-dump flooded with images stolen from other websites, AI generated pictures, spam, fetish content and even child pornography. The images you see as a visitor are hand picked and do not represent the content shown to you once you sign up and log in. There is no system in place to battle any illegal content, with just a hand full of staff members relying entirely on the users to report illegal content, while reporting illegal content is made as difficult as possible and in many cases is only possible if one's own copyrights are being violated. To make things worse, there are close to no consequences for people who violate DA's own rules as reports/complaints are ignored on a regular basis.Apart from that, every gallery on the website is AI controlled, meaning users have little to no control over the images they are shown by the system. DeviantArt's own AI image generator called "Dreamup", which is being advertized as an "ethical" AI, was trained with literally millions of pieces of art used without consent of the artists, which is why "DA" has been sued by a group of artists.
