Despite the infinite possibilities it opens up, Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming an invasive, inescapable presence online and its existence now threatens the manhwa and webtoon industry as a whole. Amidst the concerns raised by manga artists like Hirohiko Araki, X's new policies have forced manhwa creators and publishers to take drastic measures to protect their works from AI, which may come as a major blow to the community.

X (formerly known as Twitter) recently updated its Privacy Policy to allow third-party collaborators to obtain users' data to train AI models. In response, multiple webtoon studios like D&c, the publishers of Solo Leveling, Carrotoon, Daon, Atri Studio, and Mstory Hub, to name a few, have released statements that any official content posted on X will henceforth go through "post-production" first. In most cases, this has taken the form of illustrations being plastered with watermarks, but some studios have resorted...