Visual artists are resharing messages and templates on their accounts in protest, with many saying they are moving to Cara, a portfolio app for artists that bans AI posts and training. They are upset because a Meta executive stated in May that the company considers public Instagram posts part of its training data. A few weeks later, it pinged users in Europe, stating that their posts would be used to train AI starting June 26. There is no way to opt out, though some places such as the European Union allow people to dispute when Meta uses their personal data.
Too bad they didn’t pick https://pixelfed.org/ to migrate to.
I’m really interested in Pixelfed right now. I might try spinning up an instance to use at work with students - we’re currently using a cobbled-together combo of Google Photos and forms to share in progress work between classes and I think this would be so much more intuitive.
