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 - Lemmy.World

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 [https://cara.app/] 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 [https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-opt-out-of-instagram-and-facebook-using-your-posts-for-ai/] systems, and only European users [https://about.fb.com/news/h/bringing-generative-ai-experiences-to-people-in-europe/] can opt out, since they’re protected by GDPR [https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/15/consent-or-pay-open-letter-edpb/] laws. Generative AI has become so front-and-center on Meta’s apps that artists reached their breaking point