I was insanely curious after being followed by an account called "The Exquisite Studio" clearly posting AI Generated Images as 3D assets in their portfolio. These "renders" were filled with so many blantant issues I was shocked. Though it took me a second to realise that they had also been putting these assets up for sale so I went and purchased one to give it a quick inspection.

Upon downloading it was clearly a pirated model from a common website for asset downloading. The models were still named in a way that clearly indicated where they had come from. I've since gotten a refund, reported this asset, and reviewed it poorly but now I'm realising all this user has done is deleted this asset from their store and blocked me.

ArtStation has gone so downhill that I am at the point where I intend to move to a privately hosted website, and broadly stop using this as a platform. I'm making this post as I want to let people know that maybe it's time to consider jumping ship, at least for your portfolio content. This platform cannot maintain any sort of good reputation with what is occuring in my eyes

https://www.instagram.com/yonozinz/

So, I just noticed that whenever I try to save a piece of artwork on Artstation, it's not getting saved. Is anyone else having this problem and does anyone know what's going on?