I Tried the ‘Anti-AI App’ That Suddenly Drew Half a Million Artists Away From Instagram

A new social media app is anti-AI — and its stance drew more than half a million new users within a week. I tried the app this week, I can see why it appeals to artists.

The Cara app bans users from posting AI-generated images and tries to protect human-created art from hungry AI models. The result is an Instagram-style platform filled with original artwork.

Though Cara launched in January 2023, it has only gained traction recently. In the past week, the app went from 40,000 users to 650,000.

“We were not expecting this,” Cara founder and freelance artist/photographer Jingna Zhang told The Washington Post.

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