Show all posts WITHOUT relationship link to specific posts

I’m trying to create a custom query in my template file that shows all posts that are by any other author than the ones I specify. It’s set up to do the query against an ACF Relationship field that connects an author with a post. I have reworked this from a custom query that shows all posts by a specific author. That one works as desired, but my “all posts by anyone else” query does not.

$authorID1 = 128;
$authorID2 = 126;
$thePosts = new WP_Query(array(

'post_type' => 'post',
'posts_per_page' => 10,
'meta_query' => array(
  array(
    'key' => 'author',
    'value' => array ($authorID1,$authorID2),
    'compare' => 'NOT LIKE'
  )
),
'order' => 'DESC',
'orderby' => 'date',
'post_status' => 'publish',
));