As of 5:00 AM (GMT), the Artfol dataset has been disabled and public access to the contents have been revoked. 👏 We'd like to thank everyone who has filed a takedown request, spread awareness about the situation and helped others with the process. Read more about this here: https://artfol.app/dev

💬 We also want to take this moment to share where Artfol is headed. This past year we haven't been able to put out many updates, however, we've decided to invest more time into the platform with the goal of making Artfol sustainable. This starts with improving all aspects of the platform; starting with a completely new web platform. ✨ We've brought a lot of major features over already, everything from browsing, uploading, commenting and resharing can all be done from artfol.app!

As part of this shift, we’ll also be bringing Prisma to the web and introducing new features exclusive to Prisma users. Our aim is to both improve the core Artfol experience for everyone as well as ensuring more value to those who support us through subscribing. Prisma is and has always been our main source of revenue, so we hope you understand the need for this decision. 🛠️ With our increased time investment, we will be able to work on improving both the website and app, as well as being able to dedicate more time to creating meaningful interactions on the platform.

We have many exciting changes coming and we will be publishing a roadmap on our dev log soon. Follow us @artfol to stay up to date
Apr 22, 2025
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Noticed a little issue on artfol.app! When clicking on a reshare from the notifications tab, it instead takes you to a post with just your @/ in it (so no reshare indicators, no image, etc, it looks like a plain text post). So for example, someone reshared one of my drawings. I clicked on the notification in the notifications tab, and it took me to what appears to be a plain text post by this user with just "@/username". Hopefully this made sense... I can provide images if it helps!
Thank you to everybody who worked for this goal! And nice to know future plans for this app.
I know this might be a silly question but does this mean it will be safe now to post? Sorry, it’s just this whole Ai theft has made me quite nervous as of lately especially with recent events with studio ghibli and what happened on artfol has tipped the iceberg for me (;-;)

Also is there add possible way to add in any tools for higher security so no bots or ai scrappers can come through and just take people’s work away?

Though it is disabled and revoked- wouldn’t it be possible for the thief to just open it back up or is it like a way where they are banned and cant have access to it?

Apologies again for the questions, again I am just nervous with all this :(
Can we have a yearly subscription for prisma?
YAYAA!! >:O
If I could I’d sent the gif of Patrick going ‘ I Love You’ from the chocolate selling episode😩💖💖💖
I just discover the issue, and it's already solved, what a relief. Thanks you a lot!
Amazing ✨✨✨
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Prisma for the web - yesss! \(╥ω╥)/ᵗᑋᵃᐢᵏ ᵞᵒᵘ*♥ cries in happy PC user tears
Thank you so much for your service Artfol and congratulations to us for fighting against the evil machines 🫡
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Yayyy! xD
Hip Hip Hurray!!! 🎉🍻 Thank you everyone for stepping up and defending our rights as artists and for all the other artists that are away from the site that could not defend themselves. Even if you didn’t submit anything you helped by just talking about it and spreading the word. W community :).

Now back to being excited about the new site ☺️✨✨
LETS GOO ARTFOLLLLL 🎉🎉
Thank you!!!! Thank you so much for getting that stuff taken down!!!! Also, I'm super excited to see what is done with the site! Artfol is the best!
It's great that it got disabled, but how do we know the user won't just... enable it again? I thought that in order to get rid of all the data altogether, it'd have to be deleted, so is there just no chance of it being renabled? Does the scraper themselves still have access to our metadata?
Wonderful news through and through!! 🎊🎉🎉
Thank you guys for your hard work getting artfol off the data set!

So incredibly excited to see what is on the way for artfol, and for prisma subscribers! I've had my sub for a while and I don't regret it, but it could certainly use more perks hehe. Artfol.app has been looking beautiful, so I am incredibly excited to see what improvements will continue to come to the site, and what may be on its way for the app ♥️
This whole post is just a bundle of good news 🙏 Just what I needed for this week LMAO!
So just to be super clear: our art is no longer being used on HuggingFace's AI?
I’m curious, despite Artfol having the success on being taken off the dataset, would the rest of us that have yet to request a personal take down for our artwork still have to do it?