Curious about ? We're a platform with portfolio AND social feed. We have an AI detector that filters out AI images, custom home feed you can control, and custom crop tool for image thumbnails! ✨ Here's a thread on how it works:👇🧵
We heard your concerns about the rumors about Cara, here are our answers:
- Does Cara make me sign away my copyright?
No. Our Terms of Service grants us permission to host your images, resize, crop, & display them on Cara. Cara doesn’t own nor sell your work. 1/
We are currently experiencing very high traffic and the site may be slow or crashing for some users.
We are working around the clock to try to implement a solution. So sorry for the inconvenience. Appreciate everyone's understanding and patience!
- Was Cara founded by an AI supporter?
No, our founder
@zemotion
has always advocated for artists’ copyright, does not support unethical GenAI practices, and is a lead plaintiff in 2 class action lawsuits against AI companies. 3/
She has fought for artists' rights in court to raise awareness that artists do not give up their rights when sharing their work online, & she's committed to continue fighting & advocating for artists.
To our community who spoke up for us, thank you🙏 4/4
I won. I won my appeal.
The Luxembourg court has ruled that Jeff Dieschburg infringed upon my copyright when he used my work without consent.
Using a different medium was irrelevant. My work being 'available online' was irrelevant. Consent was necessary. 1/
- Does Cara train an AI, or give Hive AI user data for training?
No and no.
Cara does not train any AI models on its user data. Our terms with Hive ensures they don't train on our users’ data either. We use Hive to detect AI images and keep them off Cara. That’s it. 2/
Looking for art jobs or hiring? was founded to be a trusted platform for artists, clients & fans.
Having AI detection & filtering means that when recruiters see a portfolio on Cara, they are more certain that the art is made by a human artist, not AI.👇🧵
✨AI image detector
Want to see human-made art? We have an AI detector that rejects AI-generated images. If you’re looking for human artists, Cara is the place to be. ❤️
Congrats to
@TheGlazeProject
team on Nightshade's release!!
For those asking—a Cara Nightshade integration will come soon. We are just waiting for the Glaze team to finish the web version. It will be added to the Cara Glaze dashboard and we will announce once it's ready.
Today is the day. Nightshade v1.0 is ready. Performance tuning is done, UI fixes are done.
You can download Nightshade v1.0 from
Please read the what-is page and also the User's Guide on how to run Nightshade. It is a bit more involved than Glaze
Hi all, Cara was briefly impacted by a DDoS attack today.
Some users may have experienced latency or errors while visiting the platform, but things are back to normal now. If you experience any issues in the next few days, please let us know. Thank you.
Hi all! Cara had an unprecedented amount of new traffic and there were some attacks mixed in, so it took a while for our team to disentangle everything. Services should start returning to normal now.
Some currently known issues/troubleshooting info: 1/
We are currently experiencing high traffic load and are aware that the site may be crashing for some users.
We are working on a fix as quickly as we can. Your patience is much appreciated!
At Cara, we are a small team of passionate individuals building an artist-first platform. We apologize for any confusion and want to clarify our stance. Thank you all for joining and welcome to the community. Let’s make some art!
We are saddened by the layoffs and have been trying to collect more open roles to share with the community.
If your studio is hiring, feel free to drop a link below or let us know if you’d like us to add it to our jobs board:
✨Custom home feed
Take control of your home feed! Set what % of posts you want to see from people you follow, their network, and site-wide content. We won’t hide posts from your follows, and the ratio adjustment only adds posts and won’t remove any.
Our update today allows you to take control of your feed! Customize what you’d like to see on your timeline. We won’t hide posts from people you follow! Feature now live at 🎉✨
✨Animated gif covers
We want to support animators on Cara, so we have gif covers to showcase their work. This is a beta feature & something we're still figuring out. In the future, we plan to add video embeds so people can link to videos in their portfolios!
✨Feed AND portfolio in one ✨
Want to share memes, repost, create a portfolio, and drop your take of the day? Our portfolio tab makes it easy for you to choose what media to display, so that your work won't be mixed up with your social content.
Major Cara update! 🥳
1. You can now add an About page to your profile! Could be your bio, resume, or simply work availability status (this will be searchable later!)
The world may be speeding towards fast art, but we want to celebrate the slow art we love. ❤️ Come discover our first feature for animation on Cara! ✨
🎨
@666KArt
AI companies need to respect artists’ copyright just as they do for musicians.
Until laws are passed to properly protect artists, we believe artist platforms should:
1. Opt images out of scraping by default
2. Host no AI art until datasets are ethically sourced
Quick note to mention that we’re now on both App Store and Google Play Store.
If you don’t see Cara when searching, please try the keywords “Cara art”.
This may be due to us being new to the app stores and not having enough reviews and ratings. Thank you!
✨Custom crop for thumbnail/covers!
Our upload panel has a crop tool so you can choose how your post covers should look like. Say goodbye to severed heads in thumbnails!
This is one of our top 3 user favorites 🤩
With this, we are thrilled to announce the launch of Cara's Jobs Board today! 🥳🎉
Kicking things off is a curated list of open roles at our friends' & favorite studios, incl.
@fromsoftware_pr
,
@day9tv
,
@POLYGONPICTURES
&
@WildBrainStudio
. More to come!✨
✨Easy portfolio upload
We didn't like how tedious it was to post art on most art platforms, so Cara’s upload process is designed to be lightweight. Attach an image, hit post, & that's it! For adding to portfolio, all info fields are optional, fill or skip is your choice.
We can’t host NSFW at this time but hope we can in the future.
Gentle reminder that we are a small group of volunteers & Cara is free to use. If you’d like to volunteer with legal, support, or engineering efforts, please email or contact us on Discord! ☺️
Hi all, after the DDoS attack, we implemented some new preventive measures that ended up impacting Cara's email notifications.
Some users may have received multiple Glaze access emails today. We are working on a fix as quickly as we can and apologize for the inconvenience.
Hi all, Cara was briefly impacted by a DDoS attack today.
Some users may have experienced latency or errors while visiting the platform, but things are back to normal now. If you experience any issues in the next few days, please let us know. Thank you.
We are up and running again!
It's now 4:30am & our team needs to go to bed since we all still have work tomorrow. But let us know if you continue to encounter issues. We'll check first thing in the morning! Thank you everyone for your patience today 🙏
We are currently experiencing high traffic load and are aware that the site may be crashing for some users.
We are working on a fix as quickly as we can. Your patience is much appreciated!
New feature! 🥳
- You can now make pinned posts on your profile. Feel free to make new intro posts! 😍
- Updated robot txt to disallow OpenAI's GPTBot
- Fixed avatar bugs and numerous issues
Full update here:
Cara is free to use and an invite is not required to join the platform. This project is built by a small group of volunteers and supported with buy us a coffee. Thank you to our community! 🫶🥰✨
Coming soon: we are working on an about/resume page on profiles, industry jobs board, QoL updates, and a mini contest to celebrate our milestone of passing 10k users! 🥳
Please stay tuned and join us on Discord if you want to be notified when it happens.
Hi all, is live today!! 🎉✨✨✨ Sorry for the long wait!
After announcing our intention to build a new artist platform, we've been working hard to get things up and running all through the holidays. So we didn't have time to update our socials 😅 1/
Hi everyone, Happy New Year! I'm happy to announce that testing on new artist platform is live!✨
The team worked hard through the holidays and we are happy to make the platform open to public today.
With this, we have some good and bad news to share. 1/
✨1200 characters & post editing
Posts allow up to 1200 characters for text and you can edit them if you make a mistake. We don’t have the option to edit attached media files yet, but it’s something we are working to implement as soon as we can.
✨ Last but not least, we also have cool art by awesome people like
@nbsparth
,
@tobieee
and
@jeffsimpsonkh
! Drop your links below so others in the community can find you! 💖
🖌
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✨Phone app
To add Cara to your phone. Go to , in your browser’s sharing settings, select Add to Home Screen, and that's it! For more help, view our guide here:
We don’t understand why companies refuse to stand behind the art community that made their platforms possible.
We will build a new platform if they think artists have no place left to go.
Sign up for our waitlist here:
✨Community discussions
We wanted to bring back a sense of 2000s community and this is a small throwback to our CGHUB days. "Latest discussions" is on the home feed sidebar on desktop, and will be added to mobile soon:
We are currently experiencing high traffic load and are aware that the site may be crashing for some users.
We are working on a fix as quickly as we can. Your patience is much appreciated!
New update!🥳
- You can now add categories, hashtags, and software to uploads!✨
- Hashtags on home feed sidebar
- Fixed bio display width on mobile
We recommend updating your old posts, it will help with upcoming job features and search surfacing!
Gentle reminder that we’re still in beta so there may be hiccups & things are far from polished. We hope you can be patient with us as Cara is built by a group of volunteers & we are a small team!
You can support the site with coffee if you'd like! ❤️ 6/
March is coming to end, which means
#PleinAirpril
is right around the corner! ✨
Join Cara and
@warriorpainters
for this year's challenge, with the themes of City, Forest, Mountains, and Ocean! 🌆🌲🌊🏔 1/3
Hi, we've been getting multiple reports of Cara Glaze taking much longer than usual (from minutes before to taking hours now), and have been looking into the cause. One of the reasons is because we have close to 40k users now and we are straining a bit under the traffic, but 1/
✨Jobs & Hiring
AI portfolios have introduced doubts & made recruiting process more complex. When recruiters see a portfolio on Cara however, they can know that they're seeing the work of a human artist, not AI. Companies listing jobs on Cara know this✨
Hi all! It's only been 3 days but we crossed 3,000 signups on Cara! So excited that you are here! 🤩
Just want to let you know that we finally have link previews for sharing your profile on social media.
itself will now show an explore preview. 1/
We just updated jobs board with new openings including concept art internship from Blizzard, senior animator from WildBrain, and more! Visit for more info! 🤩🥳
PleinAirpril🌿 has started! Are you taking part this year?
Over 300+ artists on Cara have made a post for Day 1. Join us and do some plein air daily this April!! 🥰✨
@TheGlazeProject
There's no specific timeline as the Glaze team is understandably super busy! So whenever they're done with web version of NS, we'll start development on the integration. It should hopefully take no more than a couple weeks to complete after that. Thank you for the patience!
Hi all! We've been live for a week and wanted to do a wrap-up of our new features:
- New lightbox when clicking on images
- Likes tab to see all favorites
- Social media link previews
- Edit posts
- @ mention others
We hope these updates make using Cara more enjoyable! ✨
Work availability on ✨
When companies search for artists on Cara, they can use the Open to Work filter to find artists who are available for hire. This setting can be updated on your user profile -
Hello everyone!
Cara joins Creatuanary! ✨
We invite you all to participate by following the prompt list created by Yen Shu Liao or create your own concepts! Share your artworks and have fun!
Hello! We are rolling out closed testing for Cara's mobile app (for App Store and Play Store!).
If you'd like to join as a closed tester, you can sign up here:
3. As a client & AD, it's important that art platforms have clear labeling, categorization, & user honesty when I'm looking for artists.
But self-declared AI labeling is unreliable, and that's why we introduced manual reviews/invites for
@Cara_HQ
. 4/
@TheGlazeProject
We are grateful that we can help bring Glaze to more artists and encourage wider adoption. Thank you for placing your trust in us and for what you’re doing for the community!
5. Glaze is temporarily disabled because of our security measures and we will work to reenable it as soon as we can get through all other security and access issues.
Appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding as we work through all this. 5/
Quick update: we're still working on the performance fix. This issue impacts a lot of functions on Cara, so we can’t ship new features until it’s done. Thank you for the patience while we keep working on it! Let us know if you feel the site is getting faster/slower for you. 🙏
We are aware of slow loading speed affecting some users and working on a fix.
Please let us know if you notice any improvements or if you still experience issues!
Also an update on what we're working on next:
Happy Thanksgiving! We’re so grateful for all of you! Here are some new and updated listings from Wildbrain, Kojima and Digital Domain. Please use the ‘Search’ function for Kojima’s listings. ⭐️
Happy Holidays from Cara!🎄With our autumn-to-winter art feature, we hope you'll spend the holiday season with some good food and a cozy mood! Enjoy the last few days of 2023! ✨🥰
🎨Valériane Duvivier
Social posts disappear easily, but our jobs board is pinned to the navbar, so we hope it's easy to return to for whenever someone needs it.
If you have questions or suggestions on more ways we can help, please let us know.
Today is National Self-Care Day in the US, and we hope you will take a moment for yourself to relax, indulge, and have fun today ❤️ Discover some uplifting art with us:
🎨
@elbowrocket
, Fevik,
@AllisonChinArt
, Cindy Feng
#SelfCareDay
With the growing prevalence of generative AI, we want to aid companies and talents in finding one another with more ease. We want to help restore trust, and reduce the guesswork introduced to the hiring process by AI portfolios.