The Cara situation is disgusting and its a complete mask of for some of you. 

  
First of all, respect peoples boundaries please. If someone goes out of there way to create a separate space away from all the main platforms with a TOS that doesn’t enable AI scraping, dont go out of \*your\* way to infiltrate the place just to do exactly what they didn’t want, and then brag about it on the internet. Im sure the site was already being scraped before it was made into a big deal, but bragging about it makes you look like nothing more than a piece of shit. Just because its not legally enforceable doesn’t mean you should break the rules of a space for shits and giggles. Would you record in a “do not record” area if it wasn’t legally enforced?

  
Second of all, what’s even the point of this? It’s not to improve AI, as it’ll be barely a dent compared to the amount of works AI is already trained off of. Its not out of respect for the artists, and a desire to create more art like them. Because it‘s made obvious by everyone’s reaction to the situation that this was done entirely in spite (jealousy?) of artists. So was this entirely to make anti AI artists uncomfortable? To make them feel unwelcome on the internet? I get that people have been extremely harsh to AI users and im sorry, but this doesn’t excuse vile behavior in the name of retribution.

  
Finally, its a complete shift of the goalposts from a good majority of the rhetoric posted on this sub for months now. The reasoning has always been in response to the claim that AI scraping violates an artists consent that the artists consent is in fact, \*not violated\*. Because they \*\*signed a TOS which permitted AI scraping of posts.\*\* Suddenly the TOS doesn’t matter. Cara never had a TOS allowing for AI scraping. Apparently the new rhetoric is that just being posted on the internet means you consent to AI scraping, or that an artists consent \*doesn’t even matter in the first place\*.

  
Please, if theres any justification for any of this that isn’t completely malicious, I would love to hear it.

Do people not understand BASIC FUCKING EMPATHY???