In recent days, X (former Twitter) has opened a new AI-editing function with iOS App to get into the picture with a one-click command, even non-authors can do it, triggering a strong backlash in the creative community, except for those who delete the map to move other platforms, and Japanese painters have urgently developed counter-measure strategies, including more intensive watermarks, uploading the GIF, and even making jokes about showing their nipples.
According to the editing fact, when the user moves the mouse cursor to the image in the X sticker, the “photography editing” option is shown in the lower right corner, and when you click, you can enter the chat interface. If you enter a text command, AI processes or changes the picture as instructed.
If the edited picture is re-posted, the system displays the “Ai-edited” tag and clicks to compare the original image. The function is free of charge to all users, but because anyone can easily modify the work of others, many creators are concerned that it may be misused for criminal, secondary and even abusive purposes.
Some of the painters made it clear that they did not want their work to be altered by strangers, so they chose to delete the old one or to suspend their work in X.
As the sense of mistrust spreads, discussions on the “transfer of positions” are again on the rise, and other social platforms, such as Bluesky, Misskey, Wick, Swift, are once again being mentioned, not only by ordinary users, but also by other SNS official accounts or their operators, taking advantage of the opportunity to respond to related issues, to promote their own platforms and to create some sort of crowd-taking.
At the legal level, sharing another person ‘ s writing without consent may involve infringement of copyright, but X ‘ s use clause makes it clear that the platform is free to process, change, modify, make public the content of a written submission and to authorize others to use it, and that X may not be able to completely ignore public opinion pressure if the global user reacts strongly to the provision.
The Japanese painters and netizens have begun to test the various temporary responses spontaneously and quickly on X without the official offer of the option to close the AI photo editing.
Method I: Upload to GIF
Several users found that the “AI Edit” button did not appear on the lower right corner of the picture after the static picture was uploaded to GIF. Even if it were just two identical images, it would have been possible to create a file that was systematically identified as animated GIF, successfully avoiding editing.
A number of painters have suggested that, while the transition to GIF in software such as Clip Studio is somewhat problematic, it is likely that GIF will be used in its entirety in the short term. It is important to note that GIF posts will not appear in the “Media” column of a personal file, which will make it difficult to present past creations.
Method II: High-density watermark + semi-chrome
There are also painters who recommend half-television and transparency of the image after it is filled with ID or text, making floating watermarks that even AI cannot clean off. As such charades can significantly interfere with AI interpretation, they are considered to be one of the current relatively effective forms of protection.
Method III: Determination of limits using NSFW (validation of nipples)
There’s also a way to be shamed but effective, and the painter actually found that X’s AI image editing function would not be available as long as there are clear sexual features such as nipples (CKB) in the picture.
Edits the fact that there are visible images, and after pressing the Picture Edit button, AI will run for a while and then produce images that cannot be read, and in a while, the image will disappear and the original author will remain intact.
However, in terms of the creative community, even though the X uploading of R18 content threatened to trigger the Shadow Ban’s dissemination rate, the discussion quickly turned into a half-crazy social engraving, such as “Put your nipple as a watermark” and “Ai won’t allow the painting” and so on.
Most of the above-mentioned methods are ad hoc in nature, and the practical advantages and disadvantages remain to be seen, and the real demand of netizens remains that X provide a clear choice that allows the original author to decide whether or not to allow AI to edit and reuse its work.
