Cara Founder: LAION and Bluesky Already Provide Data — Scraping Cara Is Purely Targeted
zemotion · x · 2026-08-18
Part two of Cara founder Jingna Zhang's thread: anyone wanting gen-AI training images today already has non-consensually collected datasets like LAION, and platforms like Bluesky and Mastodon legally grant scrapers permission to take users' works and posts. Against that backdrop, insisting on scraping Cara — which explicitly opts out — is not about data need.
Related event: Cara Scraped Again and Posted to Hugging Face, Founder Calls It Targeted(3 posts)→
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