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Post #97742

2025-12-28 15:42 UTC

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.

Replies (39)

  • @Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 2025-12-28 18:02

    It always bothered me how so many Twitter users in Japan just kept using Xitter after everything Musk has done to it, like they're not even aware. I think the language barrier has been filtering some of it out until now. But, I am not afraid of AI; I believe in its future and potential. However, I cannot accept my work being used, learned from, or exploited without my consent. Boichi, that's what's been happening with AI to everybody's art this entire time!

    Open ##97909

  • @baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-28 16:12

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

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  • @artifex@piefed.social 2025-12-28 16:19

    * Everyone * should be abandoning twitter. Well, I guess the nazis can stay, it makes it easier to keep an eye on them.

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  • @khaleer@sopuli.xyz 2025-12-29 11:27

    Nah, they will stay there untill the site dissolves itself, some people are beyond repair.

    Open ##2471934

  • >new tool could be used to modify others’ works without their consent. This specific part is kinda stupid. Nothing was ever preventing anyone from modifying an artists work. Its incredibly common. No one needs consent to modify anything. To distrubute something that isn't yours that doesn't fall under fair use, absolutely. But modifying without consent is a joke.

    Open ##2471935

  • Honestly I’m floored this is what it takes for some people to leave X. 🤷🏼‍♂️

    Open ##2471936

  • @Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-29 11:51

    Its OK for AI to edit artist's work because its out there but its not OK to repair an iPhone, John Deere tractor you own because copyright applies

    Open ##2471937

  • @Kissaki@feddit.org 2025-12-29 00:12

    Where are they leaving/going to?

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  • @StitchInTime@piefed.social 2025-12-28 17:34

    If they’re leaving X now, they’ll probably be back. Everyone who actually wanted to leave on moral grounds probably left at least a year ago.

    Open ##2471939

  • @MrSulu@lemmy.ml 2025-12-29 08:52

    Not an artist, but like to brag that Idumped that shitshow before is was known as X.

    Open ##2471940

  • @Doomsider@lemmy.world 2025-12-28 17:57

    If the platform formerly known as Twitter didn't die when it killed itself, it ain't going to die from this. Zombie Twitter will live on.

    Open ##2471941

  • @khaleer@sopuli.xyz 2025-12-29 11:29

    FROM THE LAST MINUTE Artists can't wait to leave one sunken boat, for another, a little less sunken one.

    Open ##2471942

  • @MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2025-12-28 16:52

    A US judge can't give you a free pass to use copyrighted work of non-US artists.

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  • @sturmblast@lemmy.world 2025-12-29 12:57

    Articles titled like this and always crap

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  • @BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 2025-12-28 17:15

    Swapping one boot for another...

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  • @tomiant@piefed.social 2025-12-28 22:07

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

    Open ##2471951

  • @AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2025-12-29 05:04

    Japanese here. They [do know](https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/search?f=tweets&q=elon+musk+%E3%83%8A%E3%83%81%E3%82%B9%E5%BC%8F%E6%95%AC%E7%A4%BC). They choose to ignore. Precisely because [they sympathize](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanseit%C5%8D).

    Open ##2471952

  • @AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2025-12-29 16:01

    Sure. But the other artists in the article are English🌐 users. Japan is addicted to [their SNS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(software)) anyways.

    Open ##2471955

  • @AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2025-12-29 22:34

    [Meta](https://www.newsweek.com/american-businesses-supporting-donating-donald-trump-list-2027957){[Insta](https://www.inro.social/blog/meta-ai-instagram-guide) is as [Nazi](https://prismreports.org/2025/02/19/social-media-anti-lgbtq-instagram-meta/) as [it](https://factually.co/fact-checks/technology/antifa-social-media-bans-2024-45eb45) can [be](https://fastercapital.com/content/Instagram-Bots--How-to-Avoid-and-Report-Spam-and-Fake-Accounts-on-Instagram.html).

    Open ##2471956

  • @yesman@lemmy.world 2025-12-28 17:26

    Debian cut ties in January, so if you quit after that, you're officially slower to change than Debian.

    Open ##2471958

  • @BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 2025-12-28 17:15

    It means you're ignorant or morally bankrupt, or at least flexible....

    Open ##2471959

  • Better late than never

    Open ##2471960

  • Some companies and government departments in my country use twitter and facebook exclusively for contact and info/news. It’s insane but I have to keep a passive account for this. Especially the government, because we have an [official Mastodon server ](https://social.overheid.nl/)for that. Ughhh.

    Open ##2471966

  • @daannii@lemmy.world 2025-12-28 22:56

    I literally don't know a single person from real life that uses it.

    Open ##2471967

  • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2025-12-28 22:22

    Something like 173 million users.

    Open ##2471968

  • @ripcord@lemmy.world 2025-12-28 21:37

    Millions and millions of shitty people.

    Open ##2471969

  • I wasn't going to log in to verify either lol. Even if that's the case, it will come down to fair use policy which will allow quite a lot. If the specific instance of sharing isn't fair use and Twitter allows it, then sue them, someone will. Reddit for example though is just littered with modified images and they've been fine. Same with Lemmy. Edit: If someone starts trying to make money off modified images via Grok, then that becomes a much easier case to win.

    Open ##2471972

  • I wonder how that would go in court, I wonder if it's been tried before? I could see an argument that if that was the intention and how they made money via gained followers, even indirectly, maybe it wouldn't be fair use. Edit: Like if they gain followers reposting grok modified images, and then they also show sponsored ads to their followers, now they are benefiting commercially by gaining followers via modified grok images. That might not be fair use, assuming the modified item was fair use to begin with otherwise.

    Open ##2471974

  • @ngdev@lemmy.zip 2025-12-28 23:28

    i was telling a buddy about that who somehow hadnt seen the salute or heard of it and my other buddy said well obama did that too and mentioned others. where they were stills taken out of a video that looked like the nazi salute. so i just pulled up the video and that was that lol

    Open ##2471977

  • @acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2025-12-29 03:00

    At the very least very high maintenance friendships. I don't know if I'd have the sanity to afford them, but I'm not OP.

    Open ##2471978

  • @Kissaki@feddit.org 2025-12-31 16:41

    Thanks; Linking for context https://bsky.app/profile/kei-urana.bsky.social Looks like Boichi is there (now) too https://bsky.app/profile/boichibetoon.bsky.social

    Open ##2471981

  • @weedee@sh.itjust.works 2025-12-29 16:03

    S3nd is more of an imgur replacement, but the devs are very anti nazi and have been vocal about it after imgur started posting ICE ads. Bluesky is a solid choice as well.

    Open ##2471982

  • @Snapz@lemmy.world 2025-12-28 20:07

    *"OH, WELL NOW YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR!!!"* - "Artists" who have been willingly playing in the unapologetic hate clubhouse for years after the owner nazi saluted twice at the American nazi party rally 2.0

    Open ##2646758

  • @tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 2025-12-28 16:28

    leaving x or insta at this point means youre very.... very late to the party.

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  • @kazerniel@lemmy.world 2025-12-28 19:04

    who tf still uses Xitter...

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  • @Syrc@lemmy.world 2025-12-28 15:46

    Yes, unfortunately Boichi is leaving… for Instagram. But hopefully this is at least a wake-up call for some artists that they should *really* consider leaving for platforms with “less malicious intentions”. Maybe one day someone as big as him will decide to go fediverse, we can only hope.

    Open ##2646761

  • @Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 2025-12-29 12:27

    In our world of people dismissing any issue that isn't their own, nothing matters, and only the worst people win. If people didn't leave before this, this or that group getting pissed off won't be the death of it then either. We don't need everyone to care about everything, but the current paradigm of not only apathy, but actively fighting *against* other peoples causes because they aren't your own has really doomed us.

    Open ##2646762

  • Ugh, I'm so tired of this. I never had twitter in the first place, but I did used to have Instagram and I loved it for all the artists I'd follow on there. But I dropped that a year or two ago (officially deleted my accounts 😤) and just stuck with Tumblr ever since. But so many of my favorite former fanartists just REFUSE to let either service go, despite them very openly stating their new AI policies or worsening ToS policies. I know Bluesky will turn out the same way as the others, but I've been trying to encourage artists to move to BS and use bridgy fed so I can still see them on Mastodon. Like you'd literally get the visibility of TWO platforms by using bridgy fed rather than sticking with just Insta or just Twitter. And yes, Instagram and Twitter have bigger numbers than BS or the Fediverse, but one day the AI issues will grow too big and you'll lose those numbers anyway when you leave the platform. Plus how many of those numbers are bots anyway? But it just sucks man. I only have Tumblr and the occasional visit to Pixiv as my source of fanart. Mastodon and Pixelfed are just lacking, or make it very hard to find the artists I'm looking for (and I literally joined Pixelfed.art!). I've tried following hashtags but it's a little dry...

    Open ##2646763

  • @Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 2025-12-29 22:57

    Never had one actually. Like I might have created some temp at some point, but I've never really used it. Just about the only social media I do is either anonymous, person to person (like discord) or linked in because well... for obvious reasons.

    Open ##2646789