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A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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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

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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yes and no, you and me both value software freedom so we both understand that.

Education is obviously part of the process.

But I think most people don't really care if libre or not. Libre or anti-libre is mostly tech jargon for non-tech people.

They just want to be part of their own communities and be where the party is.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Does libre just mean "free?" The way I have been seeing it used in context, I assumed it was a platform of some kind. This thread made me not so sure of that.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Libre means free as in freedom rather than free as in cost. A service that costs money to use, but communicates using open protocols, gives you full control over your data, and allows you to easily migrate to competitors and self-hosted solutions might be described as "libre".

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    most people don’t really care if libre or not. Libre or anti-libre is mostly tech jargon for non-tech people.

    Yes, that's the problem to solve.

    They just want to be part of their own communities and be where the party is.

    Which they can't when their software keeps abusing them, anti-libre software. So, we connect the effect to this root cause.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Libre/anti-libre is one of the problem to solve.

    Cara seems to be working for them and for now.

    For how long? I don't know.

    Another problem is related to the instance creation, management and promotion.

    From my understanding, only tech people can do that, there aren't many companies providing those services and it's not something average users are interested in.

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