Ari

So for a long time (since like 2017) i have been using twitter to post and share art and all the sillay things a teen does with social media back then. I have met so many awesome people there and always came across amazing work and projects being promoted through twitter. However I think I can say will not be using Twitter/ X for the foreseeable future. This christmas i was greeted with X (i guess i should call it X now its lowkey no longer twitter at ALL anymore) implementing an edit image feature where other users without the posters consent could edit and alter images with genAI, including illustrations. it's...really stupid, immoral, dangerous, and among so many other words.

Even if the feature was removed, it does not change the fact of how a portion of X users use AI in this manner and how its normal to find this behaviour in an X post's ecosystem. And while i've seen arguments that it doesn't matter where you post because wherever you post your art, you will always be subjected to get scrapped and thrown through the woes of AI slopgen. so why even move? It used to require multiple external services to scrape, train, and use AI. BUT LIKE X IS ENCOURAGING AND COMMODIFYING IT!! IT'S LITERALLY SO EASY TO STEAL, CONSTRUED, AND OBJECTIFY ART, PEOPLE, AND OTHER POSTS ON X WITH A TAP OF BUTTON NOW! THATS BAD!!!! SO SO F*CKING BAD!!! So i highly encourage everypony to please, stop using X, do not feed into genAI usage, connect with your friends, ask a stranger instead of AI, find more meaningful and FUN ways to communicate that don't involve using X.