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Artists are fleeing Instagram to keep their work out of Meta’s AI
Meta doesn’t let anyone, including professional artists, opt out of having their photos and posts used to train AI. Artists are fleeing to the relatively unknown app Cara.
Zhao and fellow professor Heather Zheng co-created the tool Glaze, which helps protect artists’ work from AI mimicry and is on Cara. When Kelly McKernan — an artist and illustrator from Nashville — joined Facebook and Instagram over a decade ago, the apps quickly became the best place to find clients. We were sold a false promise, which was that social media was built to stay connected to your friends and family and help you share what you’re up to,” Lam said.“A decade later, it’s just this platform for them to harvest data to train on.”
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