Cara was set up specifically for artists who do not consent to having their work used to train AI models. Those principles seem to have made it a target for attacks.
  • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    26·
    25 days ago

    “Scraping is necessary to develop good models. It’s like building a highway – some houses must be demolished, but in the end everyone benefits,” the poster wrote in a thread titled “[AMA] I scraped all of Cara.”

    Except they razed the entire countryside, including the hidden alcoves, to build this “highway” of theirs.

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      20·
      25 days ago

      Oh fuck that argument to hell and back.

      Plagiarism machines are not a highway.

      • nodiratime@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        25 days ago

        Also, highways are and always will be extremely destructive. They kill (predomantly disadvantaged) neighborhoods, they pollute, divide and lead to “deserts”.