There are no user images on Xitter. Only Xitter's images. Same for every other corporate social media platform.
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This was always allowed. Anything posted publicly on the internet can be manipulated by anyone for any purpose, and has been since the first ASCII art on a bbs existed.
You can edit any digital content without anyone's permission, that's always been how it is.
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.
Yeah, yeah you can, the heck? Parody, Fair use, and a variety of other options exist for the purpose described by the guy above you.
That said, you aren't talking about that and I can't help but feel like the guy you are responding to is acting in bad faith by intentionally misinterpreting what you are talking about, or they're a useful idiot who doesn't know what they are speaking about. Dismissing what they're talking about is unhelpful. Either provide a context correct correction, or ignore them.
This platform is just evil, I couldn't believe my eyes when I opened it recently. Most recommended posts are just dumb tiktok-like short videos, sometimes soft porn even. All of these mixed with stuff posted by governments, politicians as it's their way communicate with citizens. It's just crazy, it's like we replaced law gazette with posting official stuff in tabloids.
What a bizarre and terrible idea. I def think Twitter circa 2009 was the pinnacle.
I'll hand it to Elon Musk, tho -- the dude knows how to destroy value. I wonder if he literally sets it on fire.
How are people still using this shithole
ive kept my acct so I can go read shit there when I want to see what someone wrote for a specific reason.
this'd be the camel's straw for my account as I used to post creative stuff
I use xcancel.com for that.
oh right, took me a moment. you can see tweets without an account with this?
Is Corey Doctorow racist? Molly White? Joe Biden? AOC? Bernie?No.
The correct answer is Social Graph.
There’s this other thing called Bluesky.
What does that have to do with anything?
They could be using a platform that isn’t owned by a Nazi. Best approach though is using zero of them because fuck social media.
Yes but they're on Xitter, because Social Graph.
Fuck Social Graph.
Leftists staying on Shitter for audience is a display of weakness and shallow resistance.
If they moved, they would pull significant amount of users with them.
Fuck them for staying.
Fair enough. They’re trying to reach the broadest audience they can. The sad part is the folks that will actually listen and give a shit is a dwindling number on Xitter. They’re better off posting to both if not already. A massive swath of users that would be more receptive moved to Bluesky or left social media entirely.
Fuck Bluesky, all my homies hate Bluesky
So that means I can edit a lot of Elon's pictures?
No different to saving the image, making the changes, reuploading
Maybe even better if the credits to the original are preserved
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)
For those unaware, this includes images of children. It's about time we decide who is held responsible for this
I tried exactly this (including dental floss) and it refused to generate nudity, at most I could get a barbie doll looking figure. Seems fine to me
It's different in that it's now just one click away. The harder it is to do the less it would be abused.
TIL: People still use X.
About half a billion of them. And counting.
Fuck them.
Nazi platform needs to die.
I don't care about the excuses anymore.
Move or take shame for remaining.
So Corey Doctorow? AOC? Bernie? Mamdani? All nazis?
With decent prompting skills, someone who knows what they're doing has an easy time fabricating realistic looking photographs that are nearly indistinguishable from real life. We're entering a post-truth era.
Omg what horror. Have you discovered that you can click and drag any image from anywhere into photo editing software or ChatGPT or the likes? Whatever shall we do?! We have to make images uneditable somehow. This is a complete tragedy.
For real, why should I care?
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.
Using grok this way is the same as a photo editor. It’s the human asking grok to do it that is the problem. Not grok or any other tool. Meta products have this exact same feature.
Grok will not post it publicly unless you click the button to do so. Again, it’s the person that is doing it, not grok.
Ok yes you're right. "Grok generate me some CSAM" is the same as opening up a photo editor and drawing a new real looking body onto someone's child and putting it in a new body position. Same exact thing. No different at all. Twitter has no responsibility for running a service that can do this.
You’ve totally changed the original post’s topic and made it into something obviously unacceptable. There’s a line to cross with content in general, AI or not, and any public ai model should absolutely have safety rails / content moderation on its output
Surely you have an example where it's appropriate for a service to generate nonconsensual deepfakes of people then? Because last I checked, that's what the post's topic is.
And yes, children are people. And yes, it's been used that way.
Edit: as for guardrails, yes any service should have that. We all know what Grok's are though, coming from Elon "anti-censorship" Musk. I mentioned ChatGPT also generating images, and they have very strict guardrails. They still make mistakes though, and it's still unacceptable. Also, any amount of local finetuning of these models can delete their guardrails accidentally, so yeah.
This post isn’t exclusively about deepfakes. It’s about editing someone else’s images. Making suggestive deepfakes is mentioned in the article as an example, but it’s not mentioned in the title or summary here.
That said, my points stand. Don’t post shit online if you don’t want it to be edited.
With the ease of photo manipulation, society has no choice but to adapt to nonsensical, simple edits. It can’t be stopped. There’s hundreds of apps and programs that do this now. Even adobe’s famous suite.
I know you hate Elon, I can hear it in your tone. But this isn’t an Elon thing. Look around.
If people figure out how to not use social media, the world would be in shambles
There is an opt out. It's called Mastodon or BlueSky. Anyone using X deserves all they get tbh.
After 2022, Fuckmusk stopped documenting all the actual changes he put into the site, allowing shitheads to alter images without their creators' consent (i.e. cosplayers).

Yeah, he's making Mastadon and Bluesky more attractive.
Oh cute, let's check what fascists posted today and make it into into unicorns.
I should make an app to automate that at scale.
You can download and twiddle anything you can screenshot. There is no way to garner "consent". Was Xitter a dumpster fire already and is this feature going to make it burn faster, well yes of course. But the engagement metrics will look glorious for the shareholders for a moment, until all the adolescents get jaded again.
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.
Why do people complain about using nazi social media despite the option of non nazi social media or not using social media at all. Like grow a fucking brain people.
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.
Come on, using X at this point is a meme in itself. Interaction with this vile dumpster fire only leads to results ranging from rage-inducing to straight up dystopian. I have no sympathy for its remaining users.
Who cares. Anybody could do the same thing already, about time we came to terms with it.
"A place for all those who loathe AI to discuss things, post articles, and ridicule the AI hype."
Are you lost?
Not OP, but lemmy is more like reddit /r/all when not browsing a specific community. It's easy to not know specifically which one you happen to be commenting in.
That at least took the time and 'effort' to save and upload twice (on mobile, yuck). There's not even the hint of a barrier anymore, it's all in one button.
Last I checked, you could freely download images from X anyways, to say nothing of screenshots, so ... oh shit, that was INCREDIBLY dumb of them.
Is Elon aiming for the title of "history's Punchline" or what?
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