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 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 systems, and only European users can opt out, since they’re protected by GDPR laws. Generative AI has become so front-and-center on Meta’s apps that artists reached their breaking point

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      Tell them this:

      🚩 Anti-libre software, Cara, bans us from removing malicious source code. We don’t have time to waste your life repeating the same failure.

      They might ask:

      What is anti-libre? We don’t control. It controls us.

      And:

      How do we know? It fails to include a libre software license file, like the AGPL.

      Say this instead:

      open source libre software (‘open source’ is created to subvert libre software)

      closed anti-libre (closed implies open, see above)

      We are the product. (paid stuff abuses too) With anti-libre software, we are no the user, we are used.

      More in video here or text here.

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        I really appreciate your super stark pro libre software attitude. I want to support you here. You should know that the approach you are taking is ultra abrasive and would probably cause more harm than help.

        People would just associate libre software with militant weirdos, if all they saw where your posts.

        If you want to make meaningful change I strongly recommend taking a softer less abrasive approach.

        We want libre software to be connected with safety, friendliness and personal autonomy, not militarism, chanted phrases, and dogma.

        Even on Lemmy the ultra pro libre software social network (relative to non federated networks) your current approach is off putting. I want you to succeed and I think a different approach may be better.

        Just my two cents.

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            Every time you call a product “malware” with absolutely no facts to back it up, you make yourself (and the movement) look idiotic. Please just stop.

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              Please, stop making yourself look gullible. You have absolutely no proof it’s safe but we know this anti-libre software bans us from removing malicious source code.

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                Dude you are the one making yourself look dumb. And you still make absolutely no sense, “removing malicious source code”? Removing it from what? Your comments make no sense.

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                Dude you are the one making yourself look dumb. And you still make absolutely no sense, “removing malicious source code”? Removing it from what? Your comments make no sense.

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        What do you mean by this?:

        Cara, bans us from removing malicious source code

        Is there obviously malicious source code? Is there a policy that specifically says we can’t remove any source code? Is this even open source?

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              They’re using loaded language to say that without access to the source code and the ability to modify it, Cara could start behaving in a way you don’t like and you wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.

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            Waht is “libre software”? this is a totally new term to me and searching for it has turned up nothing.

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                You understand that search results are different for different people, right? I’ve been a dev for… an embarrassingly long time, I’ve never heard “libreware” outside of specifically the libreoffice suite. Sorry I’m not as in-tune with the slang as you are or whatever.