Twitter/X Now Lets Anyone AI-Edit Your Images, And There’s No Opting Out

There’s one method to “opt out,” but it’s awful to say the least. It seems that, in the eyes of Twitter/X’s higher-ups, the artistic community has been very, very naughty this year, with it now being in an uproar over receiving a proverbial lump of coal for Christmas 2025 in the form of a new feature that lets anyone edit anyone’s images shared on the platform in just a single click. While sure, it’s always been possible to download an image, upload it to a slop generator of one’s choosing, and alter it through prompts in whatever way the machine wanted, but the new update boils the entire process down to clicking a single dedicated button. As shown in the screenshots above, said button opens one’s typical gen-AI menu with tabs for prompts, the resulting image, and miscellaneous options such as creating a dedicated post featuring the altered image or replying to the original post with it. Based on testing, the option appears on all posts featuring images, irrespective of whether those posts are viewed directly on a user’s page, in the For You feed, or anywhere else on the website. At the moment, the feature seemingly only affects regular
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