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

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

  • @[email protected]English
    8•7 months ago

    Love your ethos.

    You familiar with the Curse of Knowledge?:

    Using the two words “source code” with a developer is expected.

    With a random artist? Or like 20 or 40 or 75% of artists? Potential dead end.

    Keep up the core mindset for sure buddy. Approaches can always be refined and I see you gave it a shot in your edit!

    • Autonomous UserEnglish
      -1•7 months ago

      Thanks, they can web search it. Not saying ‘source code’ give attackers too much space. Feedback is welcome.

      • @[email protected]English
        9•7 months ago

        You may be interested in running a little experiment. The next few times you see a Lemmy post that is best understood with additional context, you can try posting a relevant Wikipedia link.

        The next few times after that, you can try posting not only a link but also your own summary, a quoted paragraph, and/or a screenshot.

        I would be shocked if you do not have significantly more engagement from simply taking an extra 10 to 15 seconds to screenshot, crop, and embed.

        Now, remember, your point of comparison is against where you were already providing a DIRECT LINK to information. It’s a simple fact (in my eyes) that fewer people click than scroll. Translate this to IRL: you want to preach the good word, right? How high do you want the barrier to be: hope someone will DuckDuckGo (naw Google obviously) that term you didn’t understand, or know that there’s barely a barrier thanks to meeting the person where they are by pre-translating to normie?

        We can always let the perfect be the enemy of the good, if we care more about minority perfection than real widespread results.

        I should help work on this pitch with you later, will leave a final thought for now:

        • Autonomous UserEnglish
          6•7 months ago

          Excellent comment, bookmarked, thank you!