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

As a European user, do I actively have to opt out or is it opt-out by default?

[–] gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 months ago

AFAIK, they only offer the opt-out form in the EU and UK

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

You have to opt-out. I got an email from meta with a link to the form. Doesn't seem to matter really what you write. It got approved in less than a minute for me. I think they purposfully made it look like it's more work than it's worth.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

how does cara compare to pillowfort?

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

well for starters it sound less stupid

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If adults can't make pillowforts they're basically dead inside

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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Artist published on meta? 😶

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

Instagram

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ah. Thanks.

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Really hoping to zee a surge in demand for "Anti-AI" software/services/community.

Fuck the Hype and the bubble cant pop fast enough

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[–] dumples@midwest.social 0 points 5 months ago

I just signed up and I know it's still centralized but I love being able to just look at art. Besides anything that is anti -AI I am in for

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

Well, it's certainly better than Instagram... Who knows, maybe Cara could federate with ActivityPub in the future... Not that I'll keep my hopes up for that.

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[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I hate that Pixelfed isn't good enough to capture these users and I say this as someone who uses it over Instagram.

From the what I've seen (and I have been watching fairly closely), I think Pixelfed and the stretched-too-thin-can't-prioritize-and-somewhat-monarchial dev himself might just need more time to cook. I still have hope in him and his projects but I won't be holding my breath again. If good shit happens, it happens. And I do hope it happens because it should've been Pixelfed in this article like Mastodon was with Twitter or Lemmy with Reddit. Not whatever this new corp that came out of nowhere is.

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