Technology @beehaw.org hedge @beehaw.org 3 wk. ago

What is Cara, the anti-AI social media app for artists?

mashable.com What is Cara, the anti-AI social media app for artists?

It's 'a social media and portfolio platform for artists.'

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How creating an account in yet another centralized social media app is going to solve things? Policy might be anti AI now, but what happens if Cara get's sold and the new company decides to change it? Don't get me wrong is good that options are popping out to give some fair market share to Meta, but how is Cara sustainable in the long run?
- but what happens if Cara get’s sold and the new company decides to change it
  
  Same thing that happens if a federated instance goes bad: you leave?
  
  A big difference is that, instead of leaving all content behind because it was only hosted there, you still have a lot of content as only a piece of the federated content disappears (or defederates, or paywalls, w/e)
- I agree. But I think this an OK idea, until someone makes this with a FOSS platform, in the fediverse. Choices are good.
  
  If their goal is to prevent AI trainers from scraping their art then an open federated platform is the opposite of what they want.
  
  I tried to get a statement from pixelfed when it came to AI and content scraping but there has not been any replies yet.
They also dont allow nsfw so its dead in the water for being any different than IG. Scrapers will get the art for AI
- It also has an expensive back end and no plans for any kind of monetization, so it's dead in the water from that side too. The moment they're successful they're broke.
  
  Yeah, i dont think they thought this through and its just going to exhaust the artists
How it's anti-AI in a useful way? If I can view it, so can AI.
- Anti-AI people tend to be grifters just as much as the people who think AI (in it's current form) will solve all our problems.
it's closed source, no thank you
love the mission and the message, but if i know anything about how things like this go, what it is, is about to die

EDIT: yeah, their about page says they "filter out generative AI images" without even mentioning how. never mind that with the rate the AI field is advancing, no algorithm for doing that works for more than a couple of months. no word at all on how or even if the photos users upload are going to be protected from scraping.

i hate to be a cynic, i do, and i can't wait for this to age poorly but $20 says the website won't even last a year
They don't appear to even have basic protections against ai. They didn't even get rid of the context menu to download them, and the app shows up in google image search which means google has the thumbnails. It's a losing battle, if you can see it so can ai, but they could at least but a few speed bumps.
- The whole site seems like a PoC - the accounts don't even have passwords! (I could actually kinda get on board with this)
  
  ...please tell me it's one of those apps that stores the identity on the device.
I just shared this with my wife because she's an artist and hates AI as much as I do.

Apparently she made an account last night.
https://cara.app/about
Anti-AI is a brain-dead idea anyway. Artists should be more open with their art, not less. Yes, even with AI.
- Are you saying artists should be OK with AI companies stealing their art an using it without permission?
  
  Well, if you don't copyright everything, then it's not stealing. We need more open culture, not closed off "IP".

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