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Xitter added a button on the corner of every image that feeds it into a prompt-based "AI" image generator. (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Vostok_@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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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.

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[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

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. kiryu-slam