Artist Jingna Zhang built Cara, a platform explicitly intended to protect artists from having their art stolen by AI...and yet these people just won't leave them well enough alone.
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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If i put a garden gnome outside i'd expect people to be decent and not steal it and send it to space.
And if they do send it to space I'd at least like to get a postcard. From space.
I though we established that making copies is not stealing...
maybe you should direct that to OP, they're the one mentioned stealing.
Also yes and no, depend on the circumstance. If someone download a video to watch it personally, then that wouldn't be stealing. If they then reupload to direct traffic to themselves and denying the original creator revenue, then that's stealing, but not the art, it's the revenue.
It's really about expecting people to be decent, punching up instead of punching down. If someone really wanted to be left alone in this AI infested era and doesn't want their art to be scraped and trained, then leave them be. What worst, those are independent artist that usually already struggling, not millionaires.
We didn’t. The definition of stealing means taking something without permission. Has nothing to do with physical items.
All the people using adblockers and pirating are going to be angry.
Why? I wouldn’t call viewing a publicly accessible site stealing. It’s published to the public, therefore the permission to view it is given.
But even if you do want to classify it as stealing, so what?
Big tech is stealing our data constantly. I have no issues stealing things of my own. 🏴☠️
"without permission"
Explain your point.
I already addressed the fact that you have permission to view public sites.
You have permission under the condition you watch the ads.
If that disclaimer is shown to the user before they enter the site then yes, that would be stealing.
Not sure I’ve ever seen that disclaimer, but I’m sure it exists.
Not really sure what your point is, this isn’t that complicated of topic.
Are you under the impression that stealing is always wrong, and there is zero room for nuance and grey area? That would explain why you can’t wrap your head around this.
It's in the terms and conditions, and the cookie pop-up.