Topic: Hello everyone! We have a very important announcement for you all.

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"we’ll no longer be continuing the e6ai project"

What's this project? Will this affect this site?

I can't tell anyone what projects of theirs they maintain or support, but what difference is it making for the community at e621 that this place exists? And what is AI regulation supposed to do? Creative artistic endeavors don't suddenly gain or lose value strictly because they're made with human motor control functions. People shouldn't feel insecure because generative AI exists because it doesn't change any human perceptions of artistic merit. I don't think shutting this place down is a good idea at all.

I read over on E621. So does that mean this site will be taken offline ??? Oo.

Never mind. I just read the Announcement Discussion over there.

Updated

I read the announcement on e621. I know I haven't been active here, but I'm very disappointed by this news. I actually had plans to start posting my work here, but I guess that's not going to happen. I actually thought about this the other day, how prophetic. I'm going to start downloading art.

I'm sorry to all the artists for whom this site was their main hosting space for their work.

beerwolf said:
"we’ll no longer be continuing the e6ai project"

What's this project? Will this affect this site?

Hopefully we'll soon get a better announcement up, but tl;dr: They are shutting down the e6ai website for good. The Discord server is staying.

Can we get a legitimate reason as to why this site is closing? It's the only great place for good AI furry art, places like rule34 are absolute shit for tagging.

skittersqueak said:
Can we get a legitimate reason as to why this site is closing? It's the only great place for good AI furry art, places like rule34 are absolute shit for tagging.

From what I gather it was done to appeal to Bluesky crowd.

Not like they won't forget about this gesture in a week and default to hating on E621 and its owners.

Honestly, e6ai always felt incredibly two-faced to me.
e6 devs: “Let’s make scraping our site really annoying for image generators.”
Also e6 devs: “Here’s a sister site specifically for AI but our quality standards will so autistically high most users will be turned off of ever wanting to use it.”

dildofaggins said:
From what I gather it was done to appeal to Bluesky crowd.

"appeal" is a strong word and a heavy assumption
this has been surely been on the minds of e621 staff and people at bad dragon/dragonfruit for at least some months if not some years
this place was already kinda neglected when i came here to start doing some tag work in the forum with aliases implications and bulk update requests
aka AIBUR

once i started to fiddle around with cinder and some admins/staff from e621 only then this place started to get actual updates and management along with getting staff drive to get more staff's here

the bluesky post was just a catalyst for the fuel that has already been there

So where is the best place to archive high-quality furry art that was made using (in whole or part) image generator models?

dragonranger said:
Also e6 devs: “Here’s a sister site specifically for AI but our quality standards will so autistically high most users will be turned off of ever wanting to use it.”

first of all kinda ableist
second of all this was no "e6 devs" it was the people from dragonfruit that made the sister website
third of all the standards are just the same as they are to e621, only that there are extra standards because it's ai generated and has been prone to give errors and mistakes along with some utter nonsense

supuhstar said:
So where is the best place to archive high-quality furry art that was made using (in whole or part) image generator models?

civitai and r34 unless someone vibe codes a booru like e6ai or just takes their source code and starts to host one website

flowersylveon said:
civitai and r34 unless someone vibe codes a booru like e6ai or just takes their source code and starts to host one website

Yea that's my thinking too.
Which sucks ass because the whole appeal of e6 is the quality standards. Even rule34.xxx is ass compared to e6. Civit has basically zero curation; might as well use deviantArt at that point.

It really shouldn't be that surprising to anyone.
I can see them scraping cub off their site any day at this point as well because someone makes a fuss on twitter or bluesky.
They have good sites, but their decision making is garbage.

killed_to_death said:
It really shouldn't be that surprising to anyone.
I can see them scraping cub off their site any day at this point as well because someone makes a fuss on twitter or bluesky.
They have good sites, but their decision making is garbage.

Honestly wouldn’t surprise me if they just kill the site one day with no warning so no one can backup what’s here. Wouldn’t be the first time they pulled something like that.

This sucks, e6 has great archival and tagging purposes with a decorum of standards... I avoid R34 and the likes like the plague. :/

Much love to all of you on e6ai And the community for being so welcoming and kind ❤️❤️❤️
Hope everyone will find an alternative if the site isn't resurrected where i can find you all again.
Till then i wish you all the best 🫂

Despite all the complaints people had about the quality standards, this was the only place I really wanted to post at. It was tiring going to R34 and seeing all the posts with extra limbs, not enough fingers, etc because of how lax they were. And the shit tagging as Skittersqueak mentioned.

And earlier today I had finished fixing all the tags that used 'stomach' when they meant to use 'midriff'... 😫

n_n said:
Much love to all of you on e6ai And the community for being so welcoming and kind ❤️❤️❤️
Hope everyone will find an alternative if the site isn't resurrected where i can find you all again.
Till then i wish you all the best 🫂

I guess I'll return to e621. I left e621 in December 2023 for e6ai because keeping up with the 30+ pages a day for crumbs was too cumbersome for me. E6ai has been delightful to say the least. I will miss it, its people, and its zeitgeist.

Weep not because e6ai departs, but celebrate e6ai for daring to be.