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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)

submitted 5 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

Meta is just going to scrub all the Cara content into their AI system anyway. They have no fear because there are no real consequences

[–] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If they do, it’s going to be a bad time for them, since Cara has Glaze integration and encourages everyone to use it. https://blog.cara.app/blog/cara-glaze-about

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

Isn't this just going to be a battle of AIs?

Train the AI on what glaze does and it'll eventually be able to deglaze. So glaze gets better and stops it for a bit and then the deglazer gets better and wins again. Repeat forever.

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

If your’e telling the deglazers to giveup because we will never stop glazing ourselves then I agree.

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

Nah, the glazers are needed to make the AI more robust

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

It has potential, with good marketing strategy I believe more users will know this.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 0 points 5 months ago

step one of enshitification has begun. again.

[–] los_chill@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What are the ways that US domains can block AI? I figure pay walls, and captchas, but is there something we can add to robots.txt that has any teeth against AI scraping? I mean would we even know if they obeyed it anyway? How do we set traps and keep this shit out?

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

Capthchas haven't worked against serious actors for years and companies could easily pay for a user account. Anything a normal tech illiterate person can do, companies can automate. You sort of have to trust their pinky promise of not scraping content.

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

Anyone have the tl,dr on Cara? Good people? Open source? Funding source?

[–] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Right now, it’s all being funded by one person, Zhang Jingna (a photographer that recently sued and won her case when someone plagiarized her work) but it’s grown so quickly she got hit with a $96K bill for one month.

[–] ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is DeviantArt not a thing anymore? Or is this a different niche?

[–] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Deviant Art is also trying to scrape artists’ work for AI. It what allows AI at to be posted and has prompted it.

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