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Cara

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My thoughts on Cara, a platform built by artists for artists

Last week, Cara's mobile app was released, right in time for LightBox Expo, which I couldn't attend, and I'm still not over it. FOMO is complicated.

Anyways, Cara is such a cool platform, it's so nice to see that there are people out there trying to fight back this whole crappy situation of generative AI, by giving artists a platform where they can feel a bit safer.

Cara was funded by Jingna Zhang around January 2023. It's hard to believe that — at least for now — Cara is free. Cara is the result of volunteer work, and it looks like it's just 9+ people running the product, alongside a few other community contributors who manage Cara's blog and Discord.

Cara has a number of cool features, below are just my favorites, you can check all the features here.

Own your feed

Tired of a who-the-heck-knows-how-this-algorithm-works-and-why-am-i-seeing-this-post type of thing? Well, with Cara, you can customize your feed. Finally, a custom feed that matches your taste.

It's so nice to be able to control what you wanna see

AI detection

Cara is using a 3rd party service to help them automate AI detection. As they explain in their FAQ, it's impossible to manually review every single image, hence the 3rd party service.

This is kinda tricky because sometimes it might create false positives, but they say that from every 10k images uploaded to Cara, only about 50 images are falsely flagged as AI, which is great.

Glaze integration

This feature is not ready yet, but I'm excited to see it ready. The Cara team is working alongside The Glaze Project team to integrate Glaze into Cara.

With this integration, you won't need to protect your art with Glaze before uploading it to Cara, this process will be done whenever you upload a new art to Cara.

Wrapping up

I'm betting on Cara's future. Seeing all the hard work they are doing everyday kinda makes me feel inspired to keep pushing on my art journey.

Since Cara is self-funded and currently free to use, they are accepting donations to cover the costs of servers and what-not. You can buy them a coffee, or maybe two, to help them keep Cara up and running. :)

Cara's community is vibrant, and I can't wait to see it grow more and more.

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