Everything you need to know about the AI-free social media platform for artists.

Key points:

  • Cara’s Rapid Growth: The app gained 600,000 users in a week

  • Artists Leaving Instagram: The controversy around Instagram using images to train AI led many artists to seek an alternative

  • Cara’s Features: The app is designed specifically for artists and offers a ‘Portfolio’ feature. Users can tag fields, mediums, project types, categories, and software used to create their work

  • While Cara has grown quickly, it is still tiny compared to Instagram’s massive user base of two billion.

  • Glaze Integration: Cara is working on integrating Glaze directly in the app to provide users with an easy way to protect their work from be used by any AI

more about: https://blog.cara.app/blog/cara-glaze-about

  • Prandom_returns@lemm.eeEnglish
    1385·
    7 months ago

    Yet another centralised social network. That pinky-promises they’ll never go bad.

    Join now! Bring your friends! No ads! Everything’s free! We’re indie!..

    Moments later… enshitification ensues.

    • Sabata@ani.socialEnglish
      572·
      7 months ago

      Solves the problem for a few years until Meta buys their users and data back.

      • Murdoc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        191·
        7 months ago

        Assuming they don’t own them already as a sort of pressure valve. Yeah I’m getting that cynical.

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      182·
      7 months ago

      Does it seem odd… This is a crowd that is all about “hands off muh property”. And yet they see nothing suspicious about someone giving them a free service.

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Yep, this is just instagram again with a little anti ai image filter on top. And a portfolio, not a photo album !

      If it’s not as interoperable as email, it belongs in the trash