They graciously labeled it as “Edit image” too, to rub in the fact that artists have 0 control over anything they create. It also masterfully attempts to reinforce the idea that the “AI” slop machine isn’t the thing doing all the work, no, no, no, YOU are in charge of the kitchen when you give a prompt to the chef! YOU are the one editing the image!
Of course, this doesn’t affect just artists, anyone that posts an image of themselves will be subject to the collective power and machinations of the Xitter user base as now they can shove it down the slop machine in just one click to “edit” it. How exciting.
Whenever I wake up for a new day I am thrilled, because I know it’s one day closer to this cursed, bloated, monstrous, wasteful, asinine, ludicrous, horrible “AI” bubble finally popping. This technology is next to useless and the general public shouldn’t have ever had access to it.
Click it and add “pregnant” to the prompt for all images posted by all politicians and media.
They’ll tire of it quite quickly.
Congress finally doing the right thing after they get firehosed by a bunch AI pics of them being suggestively eaten by a clearly pregnant and heavily male Garfield Arbuckle.
Three important things to note:
1: I did not mix up my words. The Garfield is not heavily pregnant and clearly male. The Garfield is clearly pregnant and heavily male.
2: Garfield is not canonically surnamed, in the reality generated by the AI, this Garfield is married to Jon.
3: I have repeatedly referred to “the” Garfield or even “this” Garfield. This is to distinguish it from the other Garfields, of which there are sure to be multitudes per image, fawning over the central pregnant Garfield.
4: I’ve seen Cool World, it can happen.
I’ll be honest this wasn’t my idea but still, it’s a good one
This is the kind of stuff AI could never do.
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Of course poisoning isn’t gonna work, it works when being included in the training set, not when using an image as starting latent noise.
I Can’t believe any human doing anything creative still has an account in the fucking chatbot hellhole of twitter. (I also hate it because i refuse to get an account there.) Unlimited Buttlarian jizzhad to the Ai fuckers.
I would happily ditch it if everyone else did, but Mastodon is too niche and Bluesky has the energy of an American suburb.
I sometimes wonder if it would take Elon outright taking a sledgehammer to the Twitter servers for it to finally die and the world to finally move on.
We can’t make an alternative because people are unwilling to share a common struggle. You’ll often be ridiculed and told that people will refuse to interact with you, but if you actually just follow their advice you will end up out of sight and and out of mind.
They never start with “Hey I’m sorry you’re stuck on such a shitty platform, why is that? Is there anything I can help with to help you move?”
That’s why the world sucks in general. Most people are just here to get a kick out of fighting and lecturing each other.
I hear this mindset a lot; There is a lot of defeatism in general. But I’ll tell you one thing. As a long time music fan i have never listened to a minute of Ai trash music and i never will; and I am not going to touch any platform with generative AI because i don’t want to fry my brain with that shit. If someone made a music platform today that was expressly against AI content, I would join in a heartbeat.
But if artists don’t give us the public alternatives to enjoy their content they simply don’t exist for us. So i think it is less a question of “hey move out of twitter country” and more an issue of “hey if you broadcasted your content somewhere else than twitter country I’d probably could reach it.”
Also i am not too versed on social media and i am not asking in bad faith, but as part of the general public, how can i help a creator to move out of the platform they are stuck in, especially if it’s a creator whose work i haven’t been able to follow? I imagine in twitter it must be difficult to find human artists with how poisoned the well is with all the chat bot slop.
My frustration is not so much with the creators themselves, but in the walled garden social media is turning into, and they idea that we have to put up with techbro warlords in order to enjoy the content of other humans.
I don’t think we can do much by ourselves as individuals, what you can do is little big things like engaging with the artists and creators you enjoy, do you happen to really enjoy something they made? You could let them know how impactful their work was, one thoughtful comment has sometimes been enough to keep me moving personally. Especialy nowadays when sharing art can feel like tossing it into the void.
On a grand scale idk what we can do. In late-stage capitalism we’re all competing for the breadcrumbs, people are tired and have little free time to browse art. They’re unlikely to find me unless an algorithm recommends me to them or someone they already know shows them my work. There’s also encouragement to keep me invisible because art has been commodified, instead of me being paid for my labor which I don’t even get paid for, someone has a lot of incentive to just keep me invisible and take the finished artworks, then sell them on places like red bubble. Of course the long term consequences of that is artists will get crushed and turned into excel spreadsheets managers or similar, at best they’ll continue doing what they enjoy as a part time hobby.
If someone has the capacity to organize a platform that’d put artists on a salary payroll, for their labor, that’s like the only sort of way I can see big change happening. But I’ve never had success on any social media website, neither in terms of being noticed or paid. The only success I’ve had is like small private groups where someone happened to enjoy my work. I’m sorry if this is very pessimistic. Like speaking as an artist I’d love to make agitprop posters, comics depicting proletarian life and so on. I don’t wanna share them on Xitter or libsky or fedtok and I haven’t, but now I’m basically Invisible (by duran duran)…
So idk what should I do, walk door to door asking people “Hey check out this art I make!”? Can’t really even do that anymore, because there’s a bunch of bots doing just that.
There is a lot i don’t agree with what you are saying and the attitude in general. But i don’t really see a point to say anything more. If anything, I’ll just say it wasn’t my intention to seem oppositional.
Do you realize how dehumanizing it is to be told that I’m essentially beyond saving and incapable of becoming enlightened by your wisdom you choose to withhold from me?
I sincerely hold no animosity towards you pray that you find help you need. You must be suffering a lot inside and I’m sorry I can’t help.
Happy new year to you as well! I feel you are reaching a little, This conversation is not about saving anyone; It’s about artwork, and platforms, It’s about consumer and vendor attitudes; I don’t consider the conversation pointless because you are beyond saving, I just see you have your opinion I have mine and there is no point in trying to change anything. Also there might be some cultural barrier between us. (clarified in case it’s not sarcasm)
I didn’t notice that you are ever creative yourself, so i have to be clear that my comment wasn’t directed at you specifically. I haven’t really used blue sky. It’s true that mastodon has a very set niche to it and that it’s imposible for people outside to reach any meaningful engagement. But in contrast the Issue with Twitter is that it’s system will just continue to get worse by design. People can migrate and make subniches in new social media, but i feel twitter like meta’s platforms are being shaped to be a pit of AI manure. And my mindset about that is: If the tech bros want to rot their brains in self masturbatory manure, leave them alone to it. Let them rot.
In short i feel those platforms are hopeless, but at least somewhere else there might be an island or two in this sea of shit.
Shovel another billion dollars a month in expenses on xAI. Sure they lose money every time someone uses the tool but they’ll make it up on volume
This sounds more like it’s a “turn this picture of this person into porn” button. Like JFC you know Musk is using it to look at kids or his employees or some other heinous shit.
I encourage more people to look into running their own personal models on their hardware like ollama or artbot if you want to piggyback off someone else’s gpu. That’s if you want to even use ai, which if you don’t, I do not blame you.
the only AI on my computer is the Quake III bots because nobody plays that game anymore and i need bots to relive the glory days of FFA
they have rudimentary chatbots built in btw, the programmer of the q3a bots made a whole university project out of it that states that it was based on eliza
the easiest way to check that out is by going to the tutorial and write in chat, crash will answer
Perfect for my vulgar roasts!
Legacy media seems to be entirely ignoring this story. A google news search for the last 24 hours - X Rolls Out AI Image Editing on Any Public Post. There’s one result but it’s wrong.
I think they know the general public’s reaction to AI stuff now, so they’re just quietly putting it in everything to normalise it.
they’re fishing for any potential uses of this crap to go viral
A Japanese user tried to use Glaze to poison the AI image that was generated through Twitter’s new Edit Image genAI feature, but said poison was bypassed:
https://x.com/harishimasan/status/2003824712372326884/photo/1
What’s Glaze?
An adversarial model that is meant to introduce noise to your image that trucks the AI into not knowing what it’s seeing. Sadly it can be defeated by blurring then upscaling the image.
Good thing is that in order to defeat it, the models need to use almost 4x the compute.
AH GOD DAMMIT
WHAT THE FUCK DO I DO NOW??? I CAN BARELY USE GLAZE OR NIGHTSHADE (i actually never used twitter, made an account once but only to look at some tf2 related stuff and then deleted it immediately cause i got bored)
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oh yea, i hate it so much
this is incredibly abusable and therefore funny
