From Ars Technica:

Confronted with an overwhelming amount of artificial-intelligence-generated artwork flooding in, some online art communities have taken dramatic steps to ban or curb its presence on their sites, including Newgrounds, Inkblot Art, and Fur Affinity, according to Andy Baio of Waxy.org.

Baio, who has been following AI art ethics closely on his blog, first noticed the bans and reported about them on Friday. So far, major art communities DeviantArt and ArtStation have not made any AI-related policy changes, but some vocal artists on social media have complained about how much AI art they regularly see on those platforms as well.

Getty images has also banned AI generated artwork from their site.  From The Verge:

Getty Images has banned the upload and sale of illustrations generated using AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. It’s the latest and largest user-generated content platform to introduce such a ban, following similar decisions by sites including Newgrounds, PurplePort, and FurAffinity.

Getty Images CEO Craig Peters told The Verge that the ban was prompted by concerns about the legality of AI-generated content and a desire to protect the site’s customers.

I’m not sure banning AI Art is possible.  Right now, for myself, I’m experimenting just to see what this new technology will come up with.  If the rendered output is less than perfect I just leave it as-is.  It’s a technology artifact meant to document the state of the art. As a result it’s easy to spot one of my AI Art pieces especially if a character in the picture has six fingers or creepy eyes.

Other artists continue perfecting their work in Photoshop etc.  Depending on their process the final piece may only be partially AI generated.  How are these bans going to work?  How can a site tell which tools you’ve used to create a digital piece?  The genie is out of the bottle.  We can’t go back.