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Artists dump X as launch of new AI image editing feature sparks outrage - Cryptopolitan (www.cryptopolitan.com)
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Digital artists and illustrators are abandoning Elon Musk’s blogging platform X (formerly Twitter) over the introduction of a new controversial image-editing feature powered by artificial intelligence (AI). According to reports, the creators claimed that the new tool could be used to modify others’ works without their consent.

One such popular creator championing the boycott is Mu-jik Park, the renowned South Korean artist known by the pen name Boichi. Boichi is the creator of the hit manga series Dr Stone and Sun-Ken Rock.

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[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 35 points 4 months ago

“The Nazis were inconvenient, but the use of GenAI that you find everywhere else is a bridge too far!!”

[-] teft@piefed.social 25 points 4 months ago

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 5 points 4 months ago

that's my literally face reading all of this.
my reaction to ð news ðt nazi friendly artists r no longer 👌 w/GAN

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 months ago

i can excuse racism, but i draw the line on AI on X.

[-] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I'm not going to defend training AI with copyrighted works... But I'm not going to waste energy siding with anyone who was okay with X. If you stayed in X, you'vr made your own bed. Now don't cry because the owner is an AI-pandering nazi, we all knew that already.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 6 points 4 months ago

It threatens their bottom line. That's all that matters.

[-] Syrc@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Generally in Japan they don’t see much of Elon’s “prowesses”, so I can kinda understand why artists like him might not have caught wind of the Nazi direction the platform has taken until it actually hit them.

And yes, Ignorantia non excusat, but it’s still something, at least.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For anyone wondering, "Ignorantia non excusat" is Latin, and it means "I speak Latin, and you don't. Suck my balls."

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@piefed.world 2 points 4 months ago

Quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

Factum!

[-] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social -2 points 4 months ago

Japanese here. They do know.

They choose to ignore.
Precisely because they sympathize.

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