He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them
Cara, a portfolio platform built for artists who want to keep their work out of AI training datasets, has faced coordinated attacks by bad actors scraping and publishing its data. The person responsible for an earlier mass scraping of artists' work is now reportedly working with Cara on a protective tool.
Why this matters: Artists who joined Cara did so specifically to opt out of AI training. Being targeted anyway makes the opt-out feel meaningless. There is something worth paying attention to in who gets to decide when consent matters and when it does not. The person who scraped their work now helping to protect it is an odd turn. It might produce something useful. It also means the people who caused the harm are now shaping the solution, which is worth watching.
Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy
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