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

"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

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

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!

who tf still uses Xitter...

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Where are they leaving/going to?

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...

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.

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