‼️GUYS, IMPORTANT‼️. Instagram has decided that from 26 June they will start using our posts to feed their Meta A-Ishit. I particularly am going to delete instagram as I don't have the patience to put up with it. - ThreadSky

akanelogics.bsky.social • 315 days ago

‼️GUYS, IMPORTANT‼️.

Instagram has decided that from 26 June they will start using our posts to feed their Meta A-Ishit.

I particularly am going to delete instagram as I don't have the patience to put up with it.

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originalblakex.bsky.social•315 days ago

First Reddit and now Instagram. Bet you Twitter is next.

akanelogics.bsky.social•315 days ago

yes, twitter is probably on it too, unfortunately I can't run away from it... anyway I'm always uploading everything I do with glaze and nightshade, hopefully we can fight it...

watsonartist.bsky.social•315 days ago

This is quite devastating for me. I had worked on a new presence for social media i.e. Instagram and tiktok for like 2 months now cause I wanted to have backlog of material to post.

watsonartist.bsky.social•315 days ago

Do you have sources? I would like to look into it myself a bit.

akanelogics.bsky.social•315 days ago

I heard about it from this post

https://x.com/BegoMori/status/1793363764617556438

watsonartist.bsky.social•315 days ago

For anyone else interested on this topic I found this article from last week. What OP posted here is unfortunately absolutely legit from all I can tell now

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-instagram-facebook-photos-used-in-ai-models-training-2024-5

rickler.art•315 days ago

They've been doing this for years.

akanelogics.bsky.social•315 days ago

I know, as soon as you agree to instagram's terms and conditions, you're agreeing to it and it's been there for years. Yet now they're going around with this. https://petapixel.com/2024/05/14/m...

watsonartist.bsky.social•315 days ago

Thank you for giving me some more information to look into

dauphinduegg.bsky.social•315 days ago

I'll probably nuke my art off there and just use it to talk to my friends unfortunately

achbutterflyboi.bsky.social•314 days ago

Unfortunately -- I'm a stoner and use insta to get updates on local uhm........ products (I'm in a legal state, relax feds).

But I'm hoping that deleting my art on there was enough... please?.......

.... I'm hating this AI bs more and more, man......

pryexel48.bsky.social•314 days ago

📌

blushydemon.bsky.social•315 days ago

I’ve come back to social media only recently and was already a little iffy about posting on Instagram. Think this will be the thing that puts me over to the side of deleting the app :(

hellaboss.bsky.social•315 days ago

aw, man. i just got back on there. thanks for the tip - i'm out.

louistonehill.bsky.social•315 days ago

NO LISTEN
This is perfect!
If everyone start uploading nightshaded photos to their instas we could poison it to oblivion

akanelogics.bsky.social•314 days ago

It's an amazing idea ngl, Too bad there are so many people and too many of them are too lazy to do it.

alzamon.bsky.social•314 days ago

And yes in addition to that:
- not all artists are tech savvy enough to be aware about / use Glaze/NS
- It's an extra step in time and logistics
- posting to different SM is already cumbersome as is

tbh if social media isn't bringing you clients or patrons, why keep bothering with it anymore 🤔

louistonehill.bsky.social•314 days ago

I mean that is a good point, but I think there's a good reason to deliberately throw the sabot in the machine. I don't use IG, dA or Artstation right now, but when I access to the web version of nightshade I sure plan to, and I think it'd be a good idea to positively encourage others to do the same

alzamon.bsky.social•314 days ago

Oh sure, anyone having the means to use GZ/NS should do, no matter what. And the Glaze team keeps improving performance - artifacts are now more discrete and virtually invisible at web resolutions. It's only that it keeps being an extra workflow step.

louistonehill.bsky.social•314 days ago

Ah yeah! That's fair and very true.

louistonehill.bsky.social•314 days ago

These platforms are open doors to the services that are trying to take our livelihoods away, and abandoning them entirely, rather than Using them for sabotage, is an act of passivity that WILL lead to artists being unable to support themselves vs fighting back and protecting against exploitation

louistonehill.bsky.social•314 days ago

Should this be forced on people that are uncomfortable with doing so? No.
But I do think it's an act that should be spread and encouraged - even beyond the artistic sphere

louistonehill.bsky.social•314 days ago

True but that doesn't have to stop us (I say, waiting for it to be a part of web glaze so I can do it myself)

emi56y.bsky.social•314 days ago

lucky I don't have instagram :3

zoobadger.net•314 days ago

Henceforth, I will be adding extra eyeballs, fingers and weirdly distended limbs to all my Instagram uploads.

m60freeman.bsky.social•314 days ago

What is your source for this?

akanelogics.bsky.social•315 days ago

But if you want to stay and not have your images, videos and texts stolen for their own use, I know YOU CAN FILL OUT THIS FORM TO OBJECT. (although knowing meta, who knows if it will work).

https://help.instagram.com/contact/233964459562201

sumoyokai.bsky.social•314 days ago

Welp!

alzamon.bsky.social•314 days ago

This is not the first time this form comes up. I recall filling a similar form a year or so ago. Either:
- They will do whatever tf they want with your stuff anyway because we clicked "I agree" to all that boring text we didn't bother to read 🫠
- They'll be releasing these with every terms change

rivenblake.bsky.social•314 days ago

the link didn't work for me but I found this one that leads to the same page
https://help.instagram.com/contact/233964459562201

emeraldfox.bsky.social•314 days ago

poo, and I live in the US too which usually stuff like this is always supported in from what I remember

rivenblake.bsky.social•313 days ago

Took me a little but at least I got my approval that they don't touch my art and content. Almost as if that stuff is mine alone by right 🙃 weird.

andecaya.bsky.social•315 days ago

What about uploading with Glace or Nightshade? Would that work?

akanelogics.bsky.social•315 days ago

i use glaze and nightshade everywhere, it probably works on instagram, but i still delete it because apart from the fact that it sucks for artists, i'm very tired of it.

andecaya.bsky.social•315 days ago

This ist a very important reason! Mental health is much more important.
Are there any places that you suggest for artists?

akanelogics.bsky.social•315 days ago

There really isn't a good platform as such, it all depends on how lucky you are with the algorithm... although bluesky is pretty chill and artistfriendly. I've heard pretty good things about Cara. They say it's the best for portfolio.

andecaya.bsky.social•315 days ago

Thanks a lot!
Wish you a wonderful day 💕

planetsandwich.bsky.social•315 days ago

Form isn’t even available to me. Says it can only be completed by people in certain regions, so sounds like because I’m not in the US they won’t even let me opt out of this crap?

Cool cool cool cool cool.

newbabyfly.schism.org•315 days ago

I am in the US and it's telling me it's unavailable. I have definitely checked that I was logged in, multiple times as well. 😮‍💨

planetsandwich.bsky.social•315 days ago

So frustrating. I just want to promote my shit where people will see it, without worrying that it’s being stolen by the platform I’m posting it on.

akanelogics.bsky.social•315 days ago

I am in spain so I don't have much idea how it works in other countries, I know that in latin america it doesn't work directly.

louistonehill.bsky.social•315 days ago

I think Proton has a 14 day free trial vpn you can use :D

planetsandwich.bsky.social•314 days ago

Oh right I hadn’t even thought about that. I already have a VPN, I’ll see if spoofing my location helps. Thanks!

louistonehill.bsky.social•314 days ago

Luck!!

akanelogics.bsky.social•315 days ago

I'm sorry to hear that, I found this too but I don't know if it will help you or if it will lead you to another form or not...
I'm from spain and here there is no problem, but it sucks... as if you don't have the right to protect your work as well.

https://x.com/ErithanArt/status/1793574637445718083

m60freeman.bsky.social•314 days ago

"This form is only available to people in certain regions who have an active Instagram account."

akanelogics.bsky.social•314 days ago

More info here from Twt!

https://x.com/creachivity_art/status/1793613689725354004

birdko.bsky.social•315 days ago

ugh i hate this so much. instagram is the only place where my friends who aren't artists kept up with my work and supported me :( gonna have to consider what to do...

akanelogics.bsky.social•315 days ago

there's the form I've put in the comments where you can supposedly refuse to let them use your content, although I don't really trust what a company famous for selling their data can do, so....

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