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I would like to request my name and any information associated to me within this dataset to be deleted. I have the right to be forgotten. I have come to terms that the only way to not be scraped is by not having any presence on the internet. All public online galleries managed by myself will be taken down, and I will retire from posting any illustration to the general public, indefinitely until there is an actual legislation or a platform that actively protects artists and illustrators from unconsented scraping.
Thank you in advance (:
Cara, in particular, has likely been scrapped more than once and may already exist as private data inside multiple labs, mixed in with other datasets. Such datasets will actually be images and not just URLs. There apparently was no restriction whatsoever or effort by Cara's team to prevent any activity. The "walled garden" was a fake, loosely monitored work that should not be taken lightly by its users. You cannot advocate AI-proof security if the site does not make any effort to make itself secure.
Cara was supposed to be the platform you're referring to. But no law or its own devs protect it from users wanting to use it to right click -> save link on content they like. There may be other platforms that are actually secure, I wish you good luck and hope you find your community.
I had my suspicions that malicious scrapping could have already happened on Cara, I guess this incident just proved it. In thank aspect one should thank you for waking up us all to reality.
I deleted my Cara account since the platform just proved not being able to provide what it offered. And perhaps I was wrong by not being explicit enough on scraping the internet, I would not have any problem if it would be made for archival reasons, though it is important to take in mind that even web archives must obey takedown requests under the particular cases. And unlike web archives, we all know very well what could be the use of a dataset that ends in Hugging Face.
But I suppose not all of us can adapt to the changes, hence our time to just disappear comes by. There is no need to kick me further with sarcasm when I am already down. You won.
Best of wishes (:
Argio Aspino