DeviantArt deployed technology to help its human moderation team proactively identify content that violates site policies before it is reported, shifting from a previously reactive moderation approach. DeviantArt has stated that AI does not take automatic action and that human moderators make all final decisions.

DeviantArt announced this shift to proactive moderation in a team journal post. The new technology assists moderators in identifying policy-violating content more rapidly. DeviantArt explicitly stated that 'the moderation team itself is not being replaced, nor will deviations have actions automatically taken by Artificial Intelligence.' The AI flags potential violations for human review rather than auto-removing content. The exact technical nature of the detection system (e.g., image classifiers, text analysis) was not disclosed in available sources.