I'm hopeful, but also a realist. I used to love posting and getting back feedback.
Correct. All illustrated submissions have been or are being archived. The reason given is to do with the site not wanting to get involved in age verification for visually oriented social media sites. By shutting down such content I suspect the site is protecting itself from recent legislation in many states/countries.
Yeah, I actually studied art in college and continued to draw after graduating. I used to always find erotica in art or even the more scandalous images in modern art to be jaw dropping. I wanted to share this experience here. I drew digitally (so much easier to clean and transfer over to share), but never used those computer 3D models,. especially those AI Generated images (where is the fun in that?). There is a Literotica Artist page now on Reddit. Thank goodness. It's a shame to, I was working on an illustrated version of older ADULT couples story involving consenting couples on this site for an author, now I'm not sure how to approach this.
It's very ignorant to say that "computer generation" (by that I assume you mean AI?) is false creativity. You can have a creative imagination without having an ability to physically do it yourself. is Stephen Spielberg talentless because he didn't computer generate the effects or hand make the dinosaur models on Jurassic Park himself?? no, he just directs/instructs, or "prompts" if you will, others to do it for him, to create his vision.
Those were other people, though. Creative professionals, not AI.
I'm still optimistic and think that the more the screws are tightened, the more people will raise their voice and protest against rules that go too far. I get the point that the Internet, once a place to share knowledge and ideas from a few advantaged users, has almost become the far west as more and more people and companies have taken over it, and that some regulations are necessary, and that regulating is not easy... but after a trial and error, I hope that things that shouldn't have been changed stay as they were.
You have my support and encouragement on this. I hope they reverse this decision.
No, lit is not the only one doing it and, compared to others, I think they're managing it very well. I also believe that this will be a matter of time and that it will remain a simple experiment. But I'm afraid it can be just wishful thinking. Time will tell.
The site has written directly to the artists affected by the nudity ban. As someone directly affected, I'm happy with that. The site has explained its rationale to those with skin in the game - I get the outrage, but you've not got the full story.
I have not received any direct communication from the site about this, so I am still "in the dark" with regards to the reasons behind the image ban, is there any chance someone can enlighten me ?
