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Cara's Scraping Saga: From Legal Fund to Teaming Up With the Scraper
After three targeted scraping attacks, artist platform Cara launched a legal defense fund. In a twist, the scraper behind the 12TB dump is now helping the founder build anti-scraping tools.
2026-08-24 ~ 2026-08-29 · 2 episodes · 5 posts
Episode 1 · Artist platform Cara launches fundraiser to fight AI scrapers after third breach (2026-08-24, 3 posts)
Artist platform Cara has been hit by three targeted scraping attacks since August 13, involving about 12 million images and 9 million URLs. Founder Jingna Zhang is crowdfunding a legal fund to fight back against AI scrapers.
- Art platform Cara scraped for third time, seeks legal action against attackers — zemotion · 2026-08-24
- Artist Platform Cara Launches Legal Fund After Third Scraping Attack — zemotion · 2026-08-24
- Artist Platform Cara Raises Legal Funds to Fight AI Scraping — zemotion · 2026-08-24
Episode 2 · Crawler Who Scraped Cara Joins Its Founder to Build Anti-Scraping Tool (2026-08-28, 2 posts)
The crawler who once scraped 12TB of images from artist platform Cara has teamed up with its founder Jingna Zhang to launch Lantern, an anti-scraping tool. Cara, which has attracted around 1.5 million artists seeking to protect their work from AI training, still struggles to fully block scraping.
- He scraped 12M artworks from Cara for AI—now he's building tools to protect artists — nordicinst · 2026-08-28
- The scraper who archived all of Cara now helps artists track their scraped work — zemotion · 2026-08-29