The social platform X officially installed the “AI Image Editor” feature on the web page starting on December 24, allowing users to process directly AI images attached to the post, which is not limited to their own uploaded images, and even images released by others will show editorial options, prompting a strong rebound by artists such as illustrators, cosplayers, and some painters even chose to delete the transfer of their work.
Edit the fact that when the mouse cursor is moved to any picture on the time axis after the web browser X is turned on, the button ” Edit the picture” appears at the bottom right of the picture.
For example, if you click on a tree-sweeting train, you jump out of a dialogue window, and if the user enters a text instruction (an example of changing the middle of the Christmas tree to a cat and a porridge), AI produces a processed picture in seconds. Photos after completion can be downloaded directly and can be used to “create new postage” or “respond to original postage” or even to share the site directly.
This feature is currently freely and without permission, either by uploading itself or someone else’s pictures, and no set options have been found to close or hide the editing button.
Netists point out that backstages can close and remove interaction information with Grok, but in fact this option does not affect X ‘ s requirements for the processing of public information, using clauses to acquiesce in Gök ‘ s ability to browse, enter and learn about text, images, messages and other content published by a public account.
The AI image editing function for X is based on the chat robot AI “Grok” built on the platform and developed by Elon Musk under the banner of XAI. Grok was made public in November 2023 and added to the image generation capability in August 2024, with some of the functionality being made available to free users in December of the same year.
Grok’s image generation model “Aurora” was originally capable of deciphering the image’s content, replacing the background, adjusting the structure or adding elements to the user’s text, which used to be used primarily for image generation.
This time, X directly integrated the technology into the platform interface, making the “AI Edit Picture of Others” a one-click operation that is considered to be a significant expansion of functionality, but once it was opened to the public, there was a large number of negative evaluations on X.
Many cartoonists, illustrators and image creators have pointed out that even though an AI-processed picture is marked as an “edited picture” and can click on a comparison with the original one, it is unacceptable to reprocess and redisperse the work without the consent of the original author.
In this atmosphere, some of the creators have chosen to delete past postings and have even announced that they will stop publishing their creations in X, and that a new wave of painters will escape, and those who have previously moved to BLUESKY will re-advertise their accounts.
American painters share their own, paid, commissioned images that are marked as adult content and are limited to proliferation, which is now compounded by the fact that after the X image editing function is online, it takes just a few seconds to remove the AI watermark, and through AI, to add some mess.
“I’m going to change the platform, and I’m probably going to get rid of all the work here soon. It’s so disgusting that I can’t even describe it in words that art is dead.”
The platform, led by Mask, has made a number of new and functional attempts, and in the past has generated similar discussion and criticism, whether the search results were inserted into the ad test, chat AI character changes, or the generation AI dispute over creator rights.
Even if the official X were to follow the social winds and adjust further, the “step on the wire and adjust” approach was to provoke a large number of users, and the AI image-editing function has continued with a similar strategy. X has not yet been publicized through official announcements, and it is not clear to the outside world that the function is fully online or is being tested only in a partial account number.
As AI technology gradually infiltrates the platform ‘ s core mechanisms, it has become an inescapable subject of X to safeguard the rights of creators and to avoid the modification or misuse of content without their consent; until technology companies have yet to find a balance between the right to convenience and the right to intellectual property, it is feared that the flow of creators will increase.
