Warning: My 3 of my illustrations got scraped and used to train a model in 2 days
I posted 3 art pieces on a small portfolio site last month, and 2 days later a friend sent me a link showing they were in a dataset with my name stripped out. I was shocked because I only had 12 followers, so I figured no bot would bother with me. Has anyone else had a small account get scraped like this, and what did you do about it?
Same thing happened to a buddy of mine who posts on a tiny Tumblr with like 30 followers. He found his stuff in some dataset about a week later, name scrubbed and everything. He sent a takedown request to the site hosting the data, and they actually pulled his pieces, so it's worth trying even if it feels like a long shot.