Uploaded my sketches to train an AI and got a copyright strike on DeviantArt 3 days later

I wanted to see how training a LoRA on my own art style would work, so I uploaded 20 of my old pencil sketches to a free AI training site. Three days after the model went live, DeviantArt flagged and took down one of my original uploads claiming it was a copy of an AI generated image. The kicker is that sketch was from 2019, before I even owned a tablet. Learned my lesson about mixing my own work with training data. Has anyone else had their own art get flagged as AI after contributing to a dataset?

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baker.christopher9d ago

Man that really sucks, sorry you got screwed like that.

henryt188d ago

...and what gets me is how quick these systems are to flag anything that's just really good lighting or a high quality pic. My friend is a legit photographer and his entire portfolio got flagged as AI last month. It's like the detection tools are so aggressive they're punishing people for having decent cameras and knowing how to use them. Plus nobody seems to be talking about how these flags stick around even after you prove you took the photo yourself.

colethomas9d ago

Man I had almost the same thing happen but with a photo of my dog that I'd posted years before any of this AI stuff existed. System flagged it as "likely AI generated" and I was just sitting there like cool my dog looks fake I guess.