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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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[-] Isthisreddit@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

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 12 points 5 months ago

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 5 points 5 months ago

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 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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

[-] stellargmite@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yeh theres a danger in that I can see. The Machine is learning from our dissent.

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