He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He's Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them

Now He's Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them The art portfolio platform Cara, designed for creators who don't want their work used to train AI, has been under assault by trolls seizing and publishing its data. Since early 2023, photographer Jingna Zhang and a small crew of volunteers have worked tirelessly to maintain an image-sharing social media and portfolio app called Cara . So far, it has attracted about 1.5 million artists. What drew them to the platform? A shared opposition to the unauthorized use of their work to train AI models and a desire to publicize their art while avoiding exploitation by Big Tech.