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A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts.

Instagram is a necessity for many artists, who use the platform to promote their work and solicit paying clients. But Meta is using public posts to train its generative AI systems, and only European users can opt out, since they’re protected by GDPR laws. Generative AI has become so front-and-center on Meta’s apps that artists reached their breaking point

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[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They're just gonna have to leave whenever Cara makes some dumb decision. It's the capitalist app cycle.

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

Hopefully in a couple of cycles’ time, we’ll be ready for them

[–] NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Whether it's "capitalist" or not doesn't matter. You could have government owned/created apps that make dumb decisions as well.

At least with capitalism you have the option to go somewhere else when a dumb decision is made.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Most capitalist apps dont allow you to fork the code.

Lemmy, for example, is not owned by anyone and can altered if the main lemmy devs did something dumb.

Of course you already know this, its why you are here. You fled capitalism (Reddit) like the rest of us.

[–] NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I think you're confusing the word "corporate" with "capitalism", they are not the same.

[–] Hotmailer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

No one flees capitalism. Stop talking like a Marxist. It's not possible to have communism in any guise without it collapsing. Exchanging goods and services for money incentives people to produce more. What you're talking about is corporate greed

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Exchanging goods and services for money incentives(sic) people to produce more.

What you're describing here is commerce, which existed looong before capitalism. What you describe as "corporate greed" is capitalism

[–] thevoidzero@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ever heard of open source?

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When capitalists say nobody would work under communism, they really mean that capitalists would never work under communism.

[–] Hotmailer@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

But communism is a replacement for capitalism, just like capitalism replaced feudalism. It's something that will come with time and technology, not something that can be forced to happen.