Digital artists and illustrators are abandoning Elon Musk’s blogging platform X (formerly Twitter) over the introduction of a new controversial image-editing

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40825996

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.

  • worhui@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    This is more leopards eating faces because the platform is absolutely there to provide data for the xAi platform.

    Ever since that was announced it was known that x posts were going to be fed into ai training.

    The artists posted content to an AI training platform are surprised their art is part of an AI tool . That is the lamf here.

  • Goretantath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    413·
    23 hours ago

    Only now? Not after hearing the platform was run by a Nazi? Only after your money maker is threatnd? Fuck off, just as greedy as the CEO’s…