#Scraping Twitter Data

[whatyadrawin]

Massive PSA to ALL artists who may be on Twitter, please protect yourself. I just wiped all my art off that shit site, so unfortunately a lot of NSFW art that could be viewed on there will not be available. Some is available on Slasher app, and a bit on Pixiv. I will try to post old lewd art on pixiv and any relevant lewds on Slasher app. I'm really thinking of looking into just getting my own website to display all works uncensored depending on the cost.

To give more context on what the XAi program will be doing here is a link to an article with interview answers from the Mustyness himself:

A quote from said article:

'He also claimed that xAI’s use of Twitter data would not be much different from what many are already using the platform for, adding that it would primarily be used for “text training” and “image and video training.”

“I guess we will use the public tweets — obviously not anything private* — for training as well, just like basically everyone else has,” Musk said.'

He will be using data from private accounts, what Elon means is likely data of birthdates and addresses.

I added ALT descriptions now to the image, I didn't have time before (I'm working on an overly detailed art piece right now), I hope that helps all with screen readers!

[dominiqueramseyart]

AI scraping is beyond a problem but at the same time, im too tired to be frightened of it. Especially since theres no way of avoiding it (AI has been in the background for 4 years now at least scraping away).

I won't stop posting on social media unless forced to, but I just don't feel like us artists will ever truly be replaced.

[whatlurksbean]

Didnt Instagram/facebook change their policies so by having an account you automatically agree to have your content train their AI with no way to turn it off? Good enough reason to not post there at all if you ask me

i think unfortunately just about all websites are doing this no matter what they say.

[ragnar0c]

sigh.....

[dumbsterchild]

source

not sure if someone already made a post about this....

[potatosteinsillustrations]

Elon Musk has announced he will be using Twitter user generated content to feed data to its AI project and this includes videos, text, images, everything. And that includes of course the art (graphical or written) you posted there. Many artists are already announcing their departure from the plataform.

I'm glad I was ahead of the curve and deleted my account months ago!

[scarletfasinera]

I think my favorite thing about anti-AI people is when they act like AI has only existed for the past year or two and every problem they only just discovered is a brand new thing that just started happening.

[futurebird]

Fascinated that the owners of social media sites see API usage and web scraping as "data pillaging" -- immoral theft! Stealing! and yet, if you or I say that we should be paid for the content we create on social media the idea is laughed out of the room.

Social media is worthless without people and all the things we create do and say.

It's so valuable that these boys are trying to lock it in a vault.

[hundredsspoons]

But ok, what is data scraping and system manipulation? Why would Musk even want to put a limit on how much you can use his site? Is it really just to make you buy the blue checkmark?

[moraxist]

and the dumpster fire simply gets bigger

[ashendalia]

I think forums and personal websites should make a comeback

[bitter-winter-adult]

Whoever is holding the deathnote atm please please write the muskrat

[yamimichi]

Okay so I'm not exactly tech savvy. Someone please help me out?

Just what kind of data scraping is Musk so paranoid about?

[littledead-ridinghood]

Does this not just make Twitter…more unprofitable than it already is?

[antonblastdeluxe]

twitter is essentially forcing a blackout on its users, how fucking ridiculous

[multibodied]

People reblogging it need to stop focusing on Tesla stocks as if it's something most of them can affect and influence in any way, and instead go ahead and stop using X because realistically that's what a lot more of us here have means of personally impacting

If you haven't already

Delete Twitter

Here is your mission.