Cara, founded by Jingna Zhang, has seen its user base grow from 40,000 to 650,000 in a week. The app, still in development, has crashed multiple times due to overwhelming interest. It uses detection technology from AI company Hive to scan for rule-breakers and labels each uploaded image with a "NoAI" tag. However, there is no way to prevent AI companies from taking the images. Artists, including Zhang, have filed lawsuits against AI companies like Google and Stability AI, alleging copyright infringement.
Key takeaways:
- Many visual artists are leaving Instagram to prevent Meta from using their art to train AI models, with many moving to Cara, a portfolio app for artists that bans AI posts and training.
- Artists, authors, and publishers have filed multiple lawsuits against AI companies such as Google and Stability AI, arguing that their work is being used without permission and is under copyright.
- Cara, which has grown from about 40,000 users to 650,000 in the past week, uses detection technology from AI company Hive to scan for rule-breakers and labels each uploaded image with a “NoAI” tag to discourage scraping.
- Artists are feeling powerless and some say they are already on the verge of losing their livelihoods due to AI-generated images replacing their work, with no way to opt out of AI scraping on platforms like Instagram.