my take is, you can't unring a bell. we can't unsteal the art that was scraped to create these designs, and we can't get it removed because dA has already decided that it's fine to host ai content.
the whole point of an adoptable is that it's a design which is sold so that whoever purchases it has sole rights. i think if ai art has to exist (since it's not just something we can push back into the ocean), it should be something that is free for everyone, due to its inherently derivative nature. you shouldn't be able to make money off of it.
the goal is to be a little mischievous and make it annoying/difficult for these people to make money, because it's immoral as fuck to make money off of something that's not yours by rights (due to being built off stolen art). the best way to do that right now, in my opinion, is to take these designs that are being sold, and draw it, and lay claim to it. this makes it clear that the designs can't be sold, because whoever is buying it can't get sole rights (as it's not intellectual property), and also any prospective buyers should just take it instead of giving money to these people.
i don't think us doing this hurts the original artists any more than they've already been hurt. the offense has been made, the original art has been stolen (scraped by ai), it's being sold, and the platform it's hosted on sees no issue with that. i would hope that us trying to make something of these designs & make it annoying to sell them by making them a free resource would help the original artists more than it would hurt them further.
this is more or less just us doing what we can to try and make it annoying or difficult to make money off ai adoptables, and point out how shitty it is to buy these designs when you could just take them. i've already seen some "artists" on dA say that reposts are annoying to them, offering to remake designs for people who bought them, so i figure we should compound that annoyance by making it something that more people can do.
on a brighter note, i believe that there's something inherently transformative when a human sets out to create something. so, the real stars of this process are the ai rehabers-- they're making something entirely new out of all of this in a way that ai can't.
ultimately, i don't know if this blog is the best possible solution, but i do think it's the one we can do right now, to annoy people who are doing something shitty, while hopefully not annoying the injured parties too much more in the process.