April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
Please, help us get the word out by letting others know about this issue.
For some further information on what the bill does have a look at https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2586/
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thereallegend123
MemberWow this is beautiful.
Sygnatus
MemberThank you! :)
JohnnyOnTheSpot
MemberLooks like Angela's got him right where she wants him! Love her figure and the awesome lighting/shading too.
Sygnatus
MemberOh, and it doesn't end here. ;) Thank you for your kind words.
Silent Soul Ken
MemberLooking forward to more always happy to see more Angela Cross.
Sygnatus
MemberI've got two fresh line art of her, I'll upload them.
CaffeineAndCrayons
Memberokay am i going crazy or does something look off about this? there's a weird texturing effect on it, kind of like i'm looking at it underwater or something. anyone else see that?
Sygnatus
MemberThose are intentional artifacts meant to make this image unusable for AI training. Unfortunately this is the only way we artists can fight it.
So no, you are def not crazy. :) And I don't like it either. I'll try some options in the future which are less intrusive on quality.
CaffeineAndCrayons
Memberthanks for the reply! it really sucks that the only way you can stop ai from training on your art often ends up also degrading the visual fidelity of artwork you spend so much time working on. that said, if it's the only option you can do, regardless of whether or not we the people like it, continue to do it to protect your livelihood. <3
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