Professional digital artists post at Artstation now from what I can tell.
There's still people on there selling good reference material but now they're buried between a few dozen variants of 6000+ WIZARD CHARACTERS IN 4K!! that someone churned out with Stable Diffusion in an afternoon.
This used to be an entertaining experience to see all the kinds of beautiful art people used to create... But as you said it is getting filled by AI crap. I noticed the same thing with Pixiv, even if I opt-out from AI art, new results from several popular tags are filled with badly tagged AI images.
Now the experience feels tiresome, in some categories I waste too much time filtering between real and AI art. I started to search things produced before 2022-2023 to avoid AI.
This "art" should be uploaded to its own subdomain and never get mixed up with real art.
You sound like someone who missed the word deviant in that website's name.
Care to share a link to the art you make?
Really curious about what kind of sophistication you're producing that would be tarnished by being seen next to furry scribbles.
Great. Give yourself a pat on the back for that one.
Now that you've had your smug moment, note that the parent comment wasn't concerned with the quality of content, but the category.
"Furry smut isn't art", brought to you by "Rap isn't music" people.