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Cara's Scraping Saga: Legal Fund and a Scraper Turned Ally

After three scraping attacks, Cara crowdfunded a legal defense fund — and the scraper behind a 12TB dump joined the founder to build anti-scraping tools.

2026-08-24 ~ 2026-08-29 · 3 episodes · 7 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.

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.

Episode 3 · Art Platform Cara Raises $120K to Fight Scraping Attacks (2026-08-29, 2 posts)

Artist platform Cara suffered sustained scraping attacks that harvested over 21 million images and user metadata, prompting a $120,000 fundraising campaign for legal action. One attacker apologized, deleted the dataset, and is building a free protection tool.