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X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, and there is no opt out
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How are people still using this shithole
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
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Racism.
ive kept my acct so I can go read shit there when I want to see what someone wrote for a specific reason.
this'd be the camel's straw for my account as I used to post creative stuff
I use xcancel.com for that.
oh right, took me a moment. you can see tweets without an account with this?
Yes
Sometimes...
"read replies" prompts for log-on though.
Is Corey Doctorow racist? Molly White? Joe Biden? AOC? Bernie?No.
The correct answer is Social Graph.
There’s this other thing called Bluesky.
What does that have to do with anything?
They could be using a platform that isn’t owned by a Nazi. Best approach though is using zero of them because fuck social media.
Yes but they're on Xitter, because Social Graph.
Fuck Social Graph.
Leftists staying on Shitter for audience is a display of weakness and shallow resistance.
If they moved, they would pull significant amount of users with them.
Fuck them for staying.
Once again, that has nothing to do with the conversation we're having. The question was why they haven't left Xitter.
Fair enough. They’re trying to reach the broadest audience they can. The sad part is the folks that will actually listen and give a shit is a dwindling number on Xitter. They’re better off posting to both if not already. A massive swath of users that would be more receptive moved to Bluesky or left social media entirely.
Most of them are on several platforms. Some are not, which I agree is disappointing.
Fuck Bluesky, all my homies hate Bluesky
I don’t use any of them but Twitter has been rife with dipshits and racists for a long time now.
Apathy
Addiction
There is an opt-out. It's called deleting your account. An people should do it.
No different to saving the image, making the changes, reuploading
Maybe even better if the credits to the original are preserved
Yeah, but people are using Grok to put everyone in bikinis (or replace clothes with a string of dental floss) with "donut glazing" over their bodies. Sometimes Grok undresses people without even being prompted to - some people ask for a change of facial expression on a selfie and get a nude. I'm pretty sure this will land Xhitter in hot water with the EU once again, and maybe they finally just block this hellhole (one can dream)
For those unaware, this includes images of children. It's about time we decide who is held responsible for this
I tried exactly this (including dental floss) and it refused to generate nudity, at most I could get a barbie doll looking figure. Seems fine to me
They seem to have tried to fix this, but like all LLM's, there's probably a way around that.
It's different in that it's now just one click away. The harder it is to do the less it would be abused.
Photoshop = barrier to entry
Grok = instant access
So that means I can edit a lot of Elon's pictures?
And he encouraged others to do so. It is almost like this is a bigger issue for women or girls for some reason. I'm probably sexist for noticing.
TIL: People still use X.
About half a billion of them. And counting.
Fuck them.
Nazi platform needs to die.
I don't care about the excuses anymore.
Move or take shame for remaining.
So Corey Doctorow? AOC? Bernie? Mamdani? All nazis?
They are all participating on a nazi platform.
And for no good reason.
Not every patron of a nazi bar has to be a nazi for it to be a nazi bar
But "fuck them" regardless?
I mean. They're supporting a nazi bar, so yes
LOL
With decent prompting skills, someone who knows what they're doing has an easy time fabricating realistic looking photographs that are nearly indistinguishable from real life. We're entering a post-truth era.
Omg what horror. Have you discovered that you can click and drag any image from anywhere into photo editing software or ChatGPT or the likes? Whatever shall we do?! We have to make images uneditable somehow. This is a complete tragedy.
For real, why should I care?
Grok, put this "small adult" into a bikini and have her bend over.
Creating nudes without consent, especially CSAM (even with consent), can be extremely illegal. Doing it in photo editor software makes you responsible and only leaves it on your device. ChatGPT will attempt to filter it, and their filters lean on the aggressive side, but that's also between you and OpenAI. Grok will post it publicly.
Using grok this way is the same as a photo editor. It’s the human asking grok to do it that is the problem. Not grok or any other tool. Meta products have this exact same feature.
Grok will not post it publicly unless you click the button to do so. Again, it’s the person that is doing it, not grok.
Ok yes you're right. "Grok generate me some CSAM" is the same as opening up a photo editor and drawing a new real looking body onto someone's child and putting it in a new body position. Same exact thing. No different at all. Twitter has no responsibility for running a service that can do this.
You’ve totally changed the original post’s topic and made it into something obviously unacceptable. There’s a line to cross with content in general, AI or not, and any public ai model should absolutely have safety rails / content moderation on its output
Surely you have an example where it's appropriate for a service to generate nonconsensual deepfakes of people then? Because last I checked, that's what the post's topic is.
And yes, children are people. And yes, it's been used that way.
Edit: as for guardrails, yes any service should have that. We all know what Grok's are though, coming from Elon "anti-censorship" Musk. I mentioned ChatGPT also generating images, and they have very strict guardrails. They still make mistakes though, and it's still unacceptable. Also, any amount of local finetuning of these models can delete their guardrails accidentally, so yeah.
This post isn’t exclusively about deepfakes. It’s about editing someone else’s images. Making suggestive deepfakes is mentioned in the article as an example, but it’s not mentioned in the title or summary here.
That said, my points stand. Don’t post shit online if you don’t want it to be edited.
With the ease of photo manipulation, society has no choice but to adapt to nonsensical, simple edits. It can’t be stopped. There’s hundreds of apps and programs that do this now. Even adobe’s famous suite.
I know you hate Elon, I can hear it in your tone. But this isn’t an Elon thing. Look around.
If people figure out how to not use social media, the world would be in shambles