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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Going out of their way to disseminate creators' art in the specific way they have asked not to, then to go and gloat about it is peak disrespectful jerk behaviour, and seems commonplace among the pro-AI crowd.
To give an analogy, if someone cooked a noodle dish, shared it with the public and asked people to use a fork or chopsticks, it would be one thing for you to take some home and eat it with your hands on your own. Weird but whatever. But to go and post online about them eating with their hands or another way aside, mocking the wishes of the creator for any reason other than disability accommodation, that's not illegal but it is hella disrespectful and hurtful.
I fully agree with your point.
But this is one of the worst analogies I've ever heard.
Thanks. Many hours later I've thought of better tweaks to it, like putting the meal into a blender and having it as a smoothie, but I didn't feel like editing it since enough people had already seen it.
Where you lose me is the idea that one person coming up with a recipe means they can set any kind of limits in how others consume it. Even if they want to blend it into a smoothie or stick it in a fire until it's nothing but char. They can be an asshole depending on how they do it, but I don't think morality enters the equation at all.
It's like if you woke to the sound of a dog eating a can of chili in the dark. I'm sure of it.