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.

  • Ilixtze@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.

      • Ilixtze@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 month ago

        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.

          • Ilixtze@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            1 month ago

            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)