You may have noticed we haven’t really posted on Instagram in a while. Well, in case you’re unaware of the state of Instagram, its parent company Meta, have announced that they’ll be using the users data, including their artwork to train its Meta AI. It’s almost impossible to opt out for people in most countries around the world (click here to read more about it on Snopes).
Jeez, I never thought of all the fiction genres I’d get to live in real life, Sci-Fi Dystopia would be the one selected for me. Let’s hope the post-apocalypse genre isn’t next!
So, you have three options, essentially:
1. Stay on Instagram and let Meta steal your artwork
2. Stay on Instagram and use programs like Nightshade and Glaze to protect your artwork
3. Go elsewhere
In short, I don’t know what the fate of Consumption Comics’s relationship with Instagram or Meta is going to be. We’re pretty obscure, so shying away from Meta is a great way to continue to go unnoticed. Learning the aforementioned Nightshade and Glaze technologies seems like a part of the next leg of the artistic journey for any artists who want to remain on social media. Cara is an up and coming platform that has Glaze built into it, and Bluesky is billed as what Instagram used to be. But y’know, social media gonna social media. No platform is without flaws.
Still, we’d love it if you’d visit us on our Cara or Bluesky pages and show us your support!
