Artist Jingna Zhang built Cara, a platform explicitly intended to protect artists from having their art stolen by AI…and yet these people just won’t leave them well enough alone.
Cara uses third-party content moderation services from Hive (an AI company) to prevent AI-generated art from being uploaded onto the site.
Hahahahaha so this friendly™ Chinese platform basically feeds every uploaded image into an AI to determine if it’s AI.
Just self host your own personal blog/art or use a proper website and not that shitshow.
The idea I believe it to prevent your art from being scraped. Self-hosting Isn’t a solution
To keep my art from being scraped by AI, I only display it in a physical gallery. The gallery is equipped with AI-based automated machine gut turrets programmed to paste anyone that tries to take a photo of the art.
You can tell just by their tone that they know what they’re doing is immoral and wrong, but they still do it. Hard to not become a misanthrope living in this society.
" I may soon have a way to remove nightshade" lol good luck with that
I love making art and I’m gonna stay focused on that instead of getting mad because wow some people are just worthless
This asshole is testing some deep waters when it comes to contributory liability of copyright infringement in the US: https://www.cooley.com/news/insight/2026/2026-03-26-supreme-court-confirms-limits-on-contributory-liability-for-copyright-infringement
An app like Cara, that positions itself as an Anti-AI art platform, would obviously be targeted by anyone who’s offended simply by its existence.
Not only its a honey-pot of art, it’s also a challenge for any self proclaimed ai “prompt kiddie” to hurt the other side.
They need to apply better protections to at least make mass scraping by bots a bit more difficult and expensive.
This isn’t just about scraping the images, it’s about sending the message
That he’s a modern script kiddie.
“We are the Swarm. We consume all.”
“Need a light?” - Terran Firebat quote from Starcraft 1. :)
(It’s just that there was also a swarm in the StarCraft game, and it’s just a joke — I’m not hinting at anything.)
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
It’s amazing how disrespectful these idiots can be. They’ll destroy and steal people’s work, feed it to Big Corpo™ Slopinator 4.7, get shit-tier content in return, just because they chugged the kool-aid that this tech with billions of dubious investments is the future of everything.
And all because they didnt get into art school.
Who would have thought not getting into art school would be such a major cause of issues for humanity.
Let’s start an art school and let everybody in. I think we could get a Nobel peace prize.
Couldn’t they have just wiped out a bunch of Jews like a normal art school dropout?
But, isn’t this just a demonstration that Cara isn’t doing what it’s built for? If one person, who is honest about what they did, is able to scrape all the art for $10, wouldn’t the major AI companies also be able to scrape it?
And not only would they not be honest about it, it seemed like this went completely unnoticed by Cara.
They claim they may have a way to remove Glaze and Nightshade, two of the tools protecting images hosted on Cara from being used as training data. Which means right now they don’t have a way to remove it, which means Cara is still working, which I’m not implying is going to forever be true nor am I particularly informed; I just read the whole post.
Does CARA implement protections on scraping? Or is it meant to be a platform where even if scraped, the images are protected via Nightshade and other tech?
An individual being able to specifically target an Anti-AI site is different that crawlers being automated to do the same thing to every site ignoring robot.txt files etc.
So it took an individual to go and specific target this platform which I think means that CARA isn’t really breaking its promises so much as it just needs to continue to update the techniques it uses to protect the artworks housed there. Web security has always been a game of cat and mouse.
What’s special about my art is that I can make it, and I will make more. Most of it ends up being recycled anyway. Calligraphy is a silly art.
I feel this. I play notes that will never be reheard. I don’t do it for anyone but myself because I enjoy it and relaxes me.
Absolute piece of shit
“Glazers?” Please respect the Midwest’s term for glazed donuts. Glazers are way better than these thieves!
Gotta make a stop at dah QuikTrip for some glazers, eh?
Greed and online superiority override shame now. These people are entitled and proud of what they do.
