https://mashable.com/article/cara-ai-social-media-app-artists
It's 'a social media and portfolio platform for artists.'
How creating an account in yet another centralized social media app is going to solve things? Policy might be anti AI now, but what happens if Cara get's sold and the new company decides to change it? Don't get me wrong is good that options are popping out to give some fair market share to Meta, but how is Cara sustainable in the long run?
but what happens if Cara get’s sold and the new company decides to change it
Same thing that happens if a federated instance goes bad: you leave?
A big difference is that, instead of leaving all content behind because it was only hosted there, you still have a lot of content as only a piece of the federated content disappears (or defederates, or paywalls, w/e)
Do people seriously not keep copies of their finished work anymore? They just post them and delete the local copy?
It's not just about the content posted by individuals though. The community and relationships built on a centralized platform are also at risk to a much greater degree than they would be on federated social media.
I agree. But I think this an OK idea, until someone makes this with a FOSS platform, in the fediverse. Choices are good.
If their goal is to prevent AI trainers from scraping their art then an open federated platform is the opposite of what they want.
I tried to get a statement from pixelfed when it came to AI and content scraping but there has not been any replies yet.
They also dont allow nsfw so its dead in the water for being any different than IG. Scrapers will get the art for AI
It also has an expensive back end and no plans for any kind of monetization, so it's dead in the water from that side too. The moment they're successful they're broke.
Yeah, i dont think they thought this through and its just going to exhaust the artists
Anti-AI people tend to be grifters just as much as the people who think AI (in it's current form) will solve all our problems.
love the mission and the message, but if i know anything about how things like this go, what it is, is about to die
EDIT: yeah, their about page says they "filter out generative AI images" without even mentioning how. never mind that with the rate the AI field is advancing, no algorithm for doing that works for more than a couple of months. no word at all on how or even if the photos users upload are going to be protected from scraping.
i hate to be a cynic, i do, and i can't wait for this to age poorly but $20 says the website won't even last a year
I just shared this with my wife because she's an artist and hates AI as much as I do.
Apparently she made an account last night.
They don't appear to even have basic protections against ai. They didn't even get rid of the context menu to download them, and the app shows up in google image search which means google has the thumbnails. It's a losing battle, if you can see it so can ai, but they could at least but a few speed bumps.
Anti-AI is a brain-dead idea anyway. Artists should be more open with their art, not less. Yes, even with AI.
Are you saying artists should be OK with AI companies stealing their art an using it without permission?
Well, if you don't copyright everything, then it's not stealing. We need more open culture, not closed off "IP".
The issue there is that we still live in a capitalist hellscape, and artists need to make money to survive. Until we have a situation where artists can make art and not worry about where their rent (yes, fuck landlords) or food, they will need to be able to make a living somehow.
On principal I agree, but have you thought about how artists are to make a living? It is already hard now, so how should they make money in the future?
The same way they are now? Copyright is barely a protection for independent artists, and largely serves the interests of big "IP" holders like Disney.
You don't have to do ANYthing in order to have copyright on your images.
That is standard throughout the Berne convention & has been for decades.
Registering makes court-cases easier to win, but having copyright on one's renditions isn't in any way requiring that one have registered anything with anybody.
Ok, but that is beside the point. Copyright only serves the interests of large IP holders, like Disney.