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What concerns me most of that is less to do with the deletion itself (I do agree the context of the comments lost being bad, however) and more so to do with the direction of certain discourse/ideas. Pic related, from a half effort I am doing to study/summarize the discussion there. The idea of "style theft" itself. Derpi's staff seems to accept that style emulation when done by an AI warrants take down. Not something I am 100% against, but like 80% against; there can be distinction between an AI duup of 100 images in a certain artist's style to get around commissioning them and merely doing it as a tribute. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut...

I dislike the idea of style theft itself, as a lot of art styles are quite derivative of each other and not just in reference or tributes to other artists but as a general exchange of ideas. Look at anime... heck, you can often tell different segments of our very fandom (several common tumblr art styles alone back in the day that I could identify!). I could totally see them setting themselves up for artists who have similar styles, one claims it's AI, and tries to get it removed. 

I have (possibly) a lot more to say on this, but that is the gist of what I am thinking at the moment.