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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

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

Snapz ,

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

Stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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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.

doodledup ,

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

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

BroccoLemuria ,

You actively have to opt-out as far as I know

Hedgehawk ,

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.

doodledup ,

I have an easy solution for that: I think I’ll just delete my account. I’m not using it anyways.

tyler ,

Why not Vero? Which has been around for years and already restricts AI and no advertising.

BURN ,

Because Vero has nobody on it outside of creators. I looked into it as an alternative for my photography and it’s a ghost town outside of creators posting. Nobody is liking/commenting on anything

tyler ,

I mean, but that’s the point? For creators? Not as a replacement for Facebook. I don’t want to share my stuff with people who are just gonna steal it and share it as their own in some Facebook group or on Reddit. Literally sharing with creators is the purpose of these apps.

BURN ,

Not really. Instagram is for sharing photos to more than just creators. Creators generally don’t interact, like/share, etc other creators content, they just endlessly post their own.

ruse8145 ,

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

Stopthatgirl7 OP ,
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Deviant Art is also trying to scrape artists’ work for AI. It what allows AI at to be posted and has prompted it.

los_chill ,

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 ,

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.

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