Artist Jingna Zhang built Cara, a platform explicitly intended to protect artists from having their art stolen by AI...and yet these people just won't leave them well enough alone.
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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There is no numbers advantage when less than .001% of images are poisoned and of those 99.99% are using outdated tools.
Besides, what’s the goal? Slow its progress down by a few weeks? The inevitable will happen regardless. Do you think people who edited their reddit comments before coming to lemmy made any difference? It’s laughably easy for an AI to tell is garbage data, even easier when you’re using a tool whose source the AI can view.
You know we could just upload an unedited photo to a platform, and then that platform keeps it unedited on a server. Then before exposing to web uses the latest poisoning service periodically. Remove the old edited photo, and apply again to the "raw" with the new updated service. Problem solved. Not super efficient, but still a solution made while shitting on the toilet. I'm sure there's better.
Yeah fuck this defeatism. Anything you can do you do it. Same thing with anything you strongly disagree with.
Even if you've failed don't give the impression that this was something you went along with. Don't make it seem like this was just the natural zeitgeist and no one fought it.
Hopefully there will be history in the future, and if there is it should record the fact that there were once humans who tried to be a nuisance over what they believed in even when all the money in the world was against them.