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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 8 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Hedgehawk@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

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@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

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

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 4 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.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

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

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