Yeah, he's making Mastadon and Bluesky more attractive.

Pretty much since the moment he bought it...

There is a difference between downloading and manually making changes vs having a built in tool do it on demand with no real time or monetary cost.

Boiling frog syndrome or something like that. Same reason people have put up with the enshittification of Facebook (which to me was always shit, but whatever). They just keep making it worse over time and people say they were fine with it before and they'll continue to be fine with it.

I do hope this convinces artists to pull out of the platform, though. Many of them insist on staying for the networking.

There's also people who use Google/Alphabet and Facebook/Meta stuff despite knowing how much spying they're doing and personal information they're selling and just say "well I'm not interesting enough to harvest data from/spy on." Yes you fucking are and that's why these companies are worth billions (or trillions) now. Because they sold you false pride and modesty, depending on the case.

Apathy

Racism.

Addiction

And he encouraged others to do so. It is almost like this is a bigger issue for women or girls for some reason. I'm probably sexist for noticing.

Yeah, but people are using Grok to put everyone in bikinis (or replace clothes with a string of dental floss) with "donut glazing" over their bodies. Sometimes Grok undresses people without even being prompted to - some people ask for a change of facial expression on a selfie and get a nude. I'm pretty sure this will land Xhitter in hot water with the EU once again, and maybe they finally just block this hellhole (one can dream)

Photoshop = barrier to entry

Grok = instant access

It's different in that it's now just one click away. The harder it is to do the less it would be abused.

About half a billion of them. And counting.

Grok, put this "small adult" into a bikini and have her bend over.

Creating nudes without consent, especially CSAM (even with consent), can be extremely illegal. Doing it in photo editor software makes you responsible and only leaves it on your device. ChatGPT will attempt to filter it, and their filters lean on the aggressive side, but that's also between you and OpenAI. Grok will post it publicly.

If people figure out how to not use social media, the world would be in shambles

Only for the own use, but not to share or publishing it without permissions. That it is done is clear, but always with te risk of legal consequences if the author is pissed of because it as shown in the past several times with high fines. Copyright content isn't and never was for the free use.

No, you can't edit and share copyright content without the risk of legal consequences. This is exactly the problem in X denounced by artists and photographers, who see how the AI uses their works without permission. Also for the normal user it isn't nice when he found his Photo used by an AI meme creator. Even Google must blur the faces in it's Strret View for legal reasons, the right of the own image. You can use legally only images which are free to use (CC and similar) or with permissions of the author, because of this there are webs with such content, like Pixabay, Freeimage and similar.

No. Twitter was always a terrible idea that was doomed to be slop