I vaguely remember seeing a video of someone modifying a taser to be an EMP using coil wire. IIRC it needs to be close to the target, almost touching it to be effective. At that point, if you have a taser and want to deal some numbers on the creep, just tase them and stomp the glasses.

It sucks, yes. But a platform having massive amount of AI-free human created arts, and advertised so, is prime target for scraping. It might actually help the scrapers even.

Unlike many portfolio websites and image sharing platforms, we automatically implement “NoAI” tags on Cara by default to protect images uploaded to the platform. These tags are intended to tell AI scrapers not to scrape from Cara.

Cute of them to think unethical scrapers gonna comply if they ask nicely “dont scwape pwease” The “glaze” or whatever poison they use will get beaten with enough time and training material.

Surely they (cara) have good intentions, but I see this as simply offering an option to artists to instead of getting f* by both scrapers and the platform they are on, the artist can get f* only by scrapers here.

Tech bros successfully spawn something infinitely worse than Alegria.

I’m starting to realize how little people know about making art, and how little they think about the art and graphic design they see in the world.

I am oblivious to how normal people react to these sort of stuff, or why business owner decided to use slop. Are they so disconnected that they know no one who can do basic design?

It could be that they want “professional” looking art for cheap free and treated the artists so badly for so long and this kind of situation is the result. If normal people don’t care that businesses are using slop then they have even fewer reasons to care. It’s starting to feel like “the person doing this job don’t deserve to get paid” line of thinking. The Rube Goldberg machine of consequences are so long they probably feel this is completely acceptable thing to do.

I want to see how design/illustration field emerge from the ash once all this shit collapsed, if we’re still alive.