[cygx]

> This is equally as hard to validate as any claim to authorship, and something humanity has been able to manage for centuries.

Tens of thousand of pieces of digital artwork being scraped by bots from DeviantArt and monetized as NFTs is a problem fairly unique to our time.

[miracle2k]

Probably not as big as people make it out to be. First, the vast majority never sees sales. Secondly, we know that a large number of artworks are used w/o permission across the web, on sites like red bubble, or to sell prints or drop ship products on Amazon. No doubt this is on the tens of thousands too.