| 1 | Aug 2, '24 | A thread on some Olympic shooting equipment from a retired shooter: 1/🧵 | 461× | 13.6M | 95k | 5.4k | 23k |
| 2 | May 10, '24 | 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 irrelevan | 377× | 11.2M | 285k | 43k | 16k |
| 3 | Jun 23, '23 | A guy plagiarized my work, made it a tribute to a racist opera, people said my race was the problem. He copied near 1:1 of my work flipped over, but my medium of choice was the pro | 200× | 5.9M | 99k | 18k | 4k |
| 4 | Mar 20, '24 | 8 years ago, Google Deepmind created AlphaGo—an AI that defeated the best human Go player in the world & it shaped how I see art & AI. In a new interview, Lee Sedol says he | 136× | 4M | 9.7k | 1.9k | 2.3k |
| 5 | Jun 6, '24 | So freaking speechless right now. Seen many @vercel functions stories but first time experiencing such discrepancy vs request logs like, this is cannot be real?? | 119× | 3.5M | 4.3k | 398 | 1.1k |
| 6 | Mar 9, '24 | Words can't describe how dehumanizing it is to see my name used 20,000+ times in MidJourney. My life's work and who I am—reduced to meaningless fodder for a commercial image slot m | 116× | 3.4M | 59k | 8.2k | 3k |
| 7 | Jan 7, '24 | People who reach this level of delusions need to seek help | 107× | 3.2M | 9.1k | 785 | 418 |
| 8 | Jan 8, '24 | As someone who knows what it means to be talented, let me tell you a story: I was born in the Beijing shooting range, grew up with Olympians, and picked up air rifle after moving t | 75× | 2.2M | 24k | 2.7k | 3.6k |
| 9 | Aug 4, '23 | If a book has AI cover, I’ll assume the book is generated by AI. If a publisher uses AI covers, I’ll assume their authors are AI. If a game uses AI art, I’m gonna assume the game i | 70.8× | 2.1M | 46k | 3.7k | 1.1k |
| 10 | Mar 28, '24 | This is funny cuz a woman won the last & final gold medal in the mixed gender Skeet Shooting event at the 1992 Olympics. I was often told that she was so good it made them canc | 45.9× | 1.4M | 20k | 2.6k | 2.3k |
| 11 | May 10, '24 | He won €1,500, made it for sale, turned my work into tribute for a racist opera, & hired a lawyer first. How’s any of that my fault? I gave up jobs at the peak of my career. If | 41.6× | 1.2M | 28k | 2.1k | 720 |
| 12 | Dec 2, '23 | Hi artists! Want to protect your work from style mimicry by generative AI? I'm happy to share that the long-awaited collaboration between @TheGlazeProject and @Cara_HQ is finally h | 40.4× | 1.2M | 6.1k | 2.3k | 2.2k |
| 13 | Aug 2, '24 | Misconception that our sights or glasses have super zoom built in: There’s no zoom or magnification. We wear glasses if we’re short sighted. We don’t wear glasses if we aren’t. 2/ | 36.7× | 1.1M | 8.9k | 61 | 152 |
| 14 | Aug 2, '24 | To not tense our faces while aiming, we use a blinder/card to block our non dominant eye. This can be attached to the rear sight on a rifle, stuck under a headband, or worn on shoo | 36× | 1.1M | 6.9k | 52 | 120 |
| 15 | Jun 3, '24 | Hi everyone, sorry for the absence—we hit 300k users on Cara!!!!!! 🥹🤯🥳 We made it to top 5 in App Store for social networks in the US—passing Twitter, Discord, Reddit, LinkedIn, | 35.3× | 1M | 6.1k | 1.1k | 724 |
| 16 | Aug 2, '24 | With a glasses frame, people may wear just a blinder, or with a regular lens, or have a diopter so they don’t need to squint too much to aim. This is standard equipment. 4/ | 34.2× | 1M | 6.9k | 56 | 179 |
| 17 | Aug 2, '24 | For big events, some athletes travel to manufacturers for grouping tests so they can pick out batches with less defects. The chosen batch will be used until & through the Olymp | 34× | 1M | 4.7k | 56 | 202 |
| 18 | Aug 2, '24 | Some pistol shooters aim with both their eyes, like Yusuf Dikec and Wang Yifu. So you don’t see these guys wearing blinders or shooting glasses frames. 5/ | 33.6× | 995k | 11k | 157 | 348 |
| 19 | Aug 2, '24 | The blinder attached to a glasses frame also allows you to you flip it up when walking around. So it’s very convenient when you have to leave your lane to talk to your coach or go | 31.5× | 932k | 5.8k | 41 | 127 |
| 20 | Aug 2, '24 | Rifle shooters wear jackets and shoes because the rifles can be 4-5kg heavier than pistols, the targets are also smaller. We have to test the stiffness and thickness of the jacket | 28.6× | 847k | 6.3k | 61 | 210 |
| 21 | Aug 3, '24 | Call me if you want to make an anime ✨ | 27.6× | 817k | 5.1k | 100 | 220 |
| 22 | May 10, '24 | For 2 years I’ve been harassed for fighting this because of my gender, my race, my being a photographer. My home address was doxxed, I was told they'd put me in jail, that I’d kill | 26.5× | 784k | 26k | 1.1k | 263 |
| 23 | Jan 1, '24 | Junior portfolios at top studios can fit right in next to your art heroes in a book, or look so bad (subjective) you don’t know why they were hired. This is because social media in | 26.3× | 780k | 7.1k | 907 | 4.3k |
| 24 | Aug 2, '24 | Shooting gloves are worn on the supporting hand in rifle. The pose varies due to arm length, hip height & preference. Some don’t use gloves. I posed like in pic 1, which causes | 26.2× | 776k | 5.3k | 42 | 149 |
| 25 | Jun 6, '24 | Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta's AI policies We're 700k now! - 1/ | 24.5× | 726k | 11k | 2.1k | 998 |
| 26 | May 10, '24 | Someone just reported my announcement on @facebook as spam. Unreal. | 23.9× | 708k | 30k | 2.4k | 355 |
| 27 | Aug 2, '24 | For 10 meter events we use 4.5mm pellets, which are soft & easily dented. So we use padded box for protection, it can be therapeutic to fill out. 9/ | 23.7× | 700k | 5.2k | 42 | 101 |
| 28 | May 10, '24 | This win means a lot—not just for me but also for artists & photographers everywhere. It’s a reminder that copyright protects individuals from those that try to profit off our | 23.5× | 696k | 35k | 1.5k | 205 |
| 29 | Mar 26, '25 | I’m exhausted. I think someone well-intentioned passed my photo thru OpenAI’s new image model to show what it can do. And while I appreciate the sentiment, can I just say that as t | 22.3× | 662k | 19k | 2k | 1.2k |
| 30 | Mar 28, '25 | The argument that “artists didn’t care about copyright before AI” is very wrong btw. Some of us have long fought for it before gen AI, and won. 1/ | 21.7× | 642k | 40k | 5.6k | 1.5k |
| 31 | May 11, '24 | People being absolutely normal over a woman not wanting her work to be stolen | 20.3× | 602k | 21k | 1.7k | 521 |
| 32 | Jun 23, '23 | I thought by going to court I could defend my work & set precedent to help other artists who go thru what I did. But I lost the first instance on count that although I owned my | 20.3× | 601k | 12k | 493 | 37 |
| 33 | Mar 9, '24 | I trained for the Olympics at 15, shot for Harper’s Bazaar at 20, founded an esports team at 23, & am making anime for fun. I’m building a platform to support millions of artis | 19.3× | 572k | 12k | 875 | 539 |
| 34 | May 10, '24 | Next time you see someone do this to another artist and claim that: - "using a different medium is transformative and not copyright infringement", or - "this was found on the inter | 19.3× | 572k | 23k | 2.4k | 1.5k |
| 35 | May 10, '24 | I couldn’t give up because it’s one of my longest held wishes to experience justice once, in this life. Maybe it's a stupid ideal, but I think if we can, we should stand up to bull | 18.1× | 534k | 21k | 652 | 103 |
| 36 | Aug 2, '24 | For those of us who don’t get to do that, we hoard a good batch of pellets like gold when we come across them, and save it all for the most important games & championships. 11/ | 17.7× | 523k | 4.3k | 25 | 62 |
| 37 | Aug 2, '24 | Thread got longer than I expected but these are the most common stuff I’ve seen come up for air rifle and pistol. Hope it’s helpful. Happy to answer questions! | 17.5× | 519k | 3.8k | 15 | 35 |
| 38 | May 10, '24 | So this is for the young me who couldn’t fight for herself, & for everyone else who's felt the same, that they couldn't challenge what seemed terrifying, powerful, and unjust. | 16.5× | 488k | 17k | 453 | 60 |
| 39 | Dec 7, '22 | I am devastated by the copyright ruling in Luxembourg today, which stated that my work lacks originality and therefore will not receive copyright protection in Luxembourg. The basi | 16.4× | 0 | 50k | 8.3k | 2.4k |
| 40 | May 10, '24 | I know that as individuals, it may not seem like there's much we can do. But even if we are alone, the act of many individuals fighting for what's right, over time, may one day be | 15.8× | 467k | 15k | 447 | 49 |
| 41 | Mar 11, '24 | What’s it like to be a woman artist online in 2024, you ask? | 14.9× | 441k | 20k | 1.2k | 611 |
| 42 | Jun 4, '24 | We passed 500,000 users. Half a million—I can't even. It's been moving to see so many people enjoy the platform despite our many issues. Thank you for your patience. I hope our com | 14.1× | 417k | 5.4k | 633 | 275 |
| 43 | May 10, '24 | I hope that more of the world will look towards Luxembourg & remember that copyright is what allows individual like myself to work as an artist. Because without knowing that I | 13.6× | 403k | 13k | 302 | 43 |
| 44 | May 10, '24 | I want to thank Luxembourg & its judicial system for upholding copyright protection for an individual, esp in time of AI where our rights seem to be quickly eroding. And to my | 13.6× | 403k | 17k | 489 | 106 |
| 45 | May 10, '24 | It's hard to find the right words after 2 years of suppressing what I can say or share. And I'm still processing the fact that I can finally start to have my life back now. I hope | 13.1× | 389k | 15k | 323 | 59 |
| 46 | Jun 23, '23 | I wanted to appeal, but Jeff Dieschburg's supporters hoped I’d kill myself. Threatened to put me in jail, doxxed me by posting unredacted court docs w/ my home address. The officia | 12.9× | 381k | 11k | 508 | 30 |
| 47 | May 10, '24 | I’m grateful for the incredible kindness of the people of Luxembourg and everyone around the world. Your help and support meant a lot when my world was breaking apart. 10/ | 12.6× | 373k | 13k | 266 | 38 |
| 48 | Jun 23, '23 | My work was taken and used without my permission, against my will. I feel that logically, humans all understand that we shouldn't rob, abuse, harass, or hurt others, or tell victim | 12× | 356k | 11k | 481 | 20 |
| 49 | Jun 23, '23 | My appeal was set to be in April and I thought that finally, this nightmare would be over. But no, they postponed it by half a year, to just after their elections, where coincident | 12× | 355k | 9.5k | 371 | 12 |
| 50 | Jun 23, '23 | I honestly don't know how to live in 2023. I don't recognize this world. | 11.6× | 342k | 8.9k | 292 | 21 |
| 51 | Jan 8, '24 | I broke the national record at 14, within 9 months of picking up air rifle. Ranked 18th at World Cup, held the Commonwealth Shooting Championships record unbroken until rules were | 11.5× | 339k | 4.3k | 134 | 162 |
| 52 | Jun 23, '23 | I've been threatened & harassed for a year & was powerless to stop it. Even though I believe this timing is just a coincidence, it drives home the feeling of how unimportan | 11.3× | 334k | 9.8k | 391 | 14 |
| 53 | Jun 1, '22 | Some guy really ripped off my photo, won a €1,500 prize, exhibited in a biennale supported by the Luxembourg government, then tried to mansplain copyright infringement to me. Where | 11× | 0 | 31k | 7.4k | 887 |
| 54 | Jan 28, '24 | As an AD, traps I see artists fall into: lack of research, shallow designs, ignoring instructions, overconfidence, and using elements that feel impressive for the sake of it, which | 10.9× | 321k | 3.8k | 520 | 2.2k |
| 55 | Aug 5, '23 | Artists who choose not to use gen AI now are basically striking in their own way. They COULD use AI if they wanted—& will be better at it than any prompter. So if you think of | 10.8× | 321k | 4.8k | 703 | 268 |
| 56 | Jun 9, '24 | Hi!! We have almost 800k users on Cara so it's time for another quick update!!— 1. Team and I are heads down dealing with infra, speaking with vendors, and doing everything we can | 10.5× | 310k | 5.2k | 543 | 427 |
| 57 | Jun 23, '23 | What made me want to kill myself was when I built an artist platform to filter out AI art & wanted to treat artists w/ more respect—ppl came to say I was doing it to steal arti | 10.4× | 308k | 9k | 239 | 39 |
| 58 | Mar 10, '24 | MidJourney has a feature where users can feed it an image, get a list of prompts, then copy & paste the prompt back to MJ to generate derivatives of said image. It reduces my p | 10× | 297k | 6.4k | 1.6k | 430 |
| 59 | Aug 1, '23 | Gen AI will remove jobs at a higher rate than it can create. One of few ways forward is for gvnts to tax those that use AI. So if much of workforce is eliminated, there can be soci | 9.6× | 283k | 5.2k | 1k | 266 |
| 60 | Dec 11, '23 | Ah we have reached the beginning of Psycho Pass | 8.7× | 257k | 5.5k | 1.9k | 281 |
| 61 | Jan 6, '24 | Having my work featured in Wacom Intuos campaigns was one of my favorite early career memories. Seeing this has been heartbreaking. | 8.2× | 243k | 7k | 420 | 109 |
| 62 | Dec 6, '24 | It’s been worrying to see how much AI safety has been downplayed by a lot of people whether pro or anti AI. AI models have been showing concerning behaviors for a while, but now th | 8.1× | 240k | 3.8k | 746 | 1k |
| 63 | Oct 30, '24 | So this was a huge booth at entrance of the event. The irony of calling consolidated software artisans 😭 | 7.9× | 234k | 4.4k | 810 | 225 |
| 64 | Jun 22, '23 | Someone did this to me on my copyright case where a dude flipped my work for a painting, won a prize, & tried to sell it for thousands of dollars. Randos would spam img2img pic | 7.8× | 230k | 5.3k | 653 | 142 |
| 65 | Nov 7, '23 | Can't even talk about my work without people coming in like this. Wonder what MJ trained on to have outputs that look similar to my work? 🙄 | 7.4× | 219k | 3.2k | 275 | 83 |
| 66 | Jan 8, '24 | Most of what the public calls “talented artist” is not really talent, it's just plain, boring, practice. Talents like Mozart do exist once an era, but 99.99% artists aren't that—th | 7.4× | 219k | 9k | 557 | 140 |
| 67 | Mar 27, '25 | I’ve told former Ghibli staff that they can reach out to me if they have questions about our class actions in the US so far. | 6.7× | 199k | 7.2k | 599 | 273 |
| 68 | Jan 25, '24 | 15,600+ people have been laid off in tech so far, in January 2024. If you see an artist-hating person making the inevitable “learn to code” comment, you can tell them to fuck off. | 6.5× | 193k | 3.2k | 761 | 399 |
| 69 | May 8, '24 | So painful to watch, especially given the current climate of artists being crushed by the unrelenting decimation of the arts by generative AI. | 6.3× | 186k | 5.2k | 474 | 221 |
| 70 | Jan 8, '24 | It's romantic to think and talk about talent, and it can be inspiring and defeating to experience. But on its own, talent means nothing. Talent is meaningless without practice. 5/ | 6.2× | 183k | 6.8k | 382 | 70 |
| 71 | Aug 17, '23 | Is there even a point to making anything anymore | 6.1× | 181k | 3.7k | 466 | 128 |
| 72 | Mar 9, '24 | My art is who I am. It’s dehumanizing to have it fed into machines where my background, history, & why I create lose all meaning. And because I don’t want to see gen AI work ma | 5.8× | 172k | 3.3k | 117 | 73 |
| 73 | Jan 8, '24 | @tobieee is one of the most 'talented' artists I know. Here's his work 17 years apart. His art didn't arrive talented at birth. His Destiny 2 art weren't pre-rendered in the womb. | 5.7× | 168k | 6.3k | 185 | 192 |
| 74 | Jan 8, '24 | I was called a prodigy, an Olympic medal was expected. And you know what I did with that talent? I didn't win an Olympic gold. Didn't even make the team. I got some PTSD, tried to | 5.4× | 159k | 5.6k | 64 | 28 |
| 75 | Jan 8, '24 | I was surrounded by people who weren't born with talent. Yet they won Olympic medals, I didn't. Even without this so called talent like mine, they practiced, worked hard, and survi | 5.3× | 158k | 6k | 91 | 37 |
| 76 | Jun 12, '24 | I spoke to @WIRED about Cara going viral, the artists class action lawsuits, and my thoughts on generative AI. Thank you @Knibbs! 1/ | 5.1× | 151k | 3.7k | 708 | 274 |
| 77 | Jan 8, '24 | The closest thing to a natural-born talent is imo a curious mind. But that exists in every field, and it's not exclusive to artists, nor an art skill that lets you render. I'll lea | 5.0× | 149k | 5.5k | 165 | 79 |
| 78 | Aug 4, '23 | I’ll say it pragmatically, a lot of gen AI work is very good. Because so much of it is trained on the best of works (without permission), it’s only natural that the output is good. | 4.8× | 142k | 5.5k | 119 | 13 |
| 79 | May 15, '24 | “Someone can think that my work really sucks, but my consent is still needed, and that applies to any other photographer and artist.” Short interview in RTL: | 4.7× | 139k | 4.3k | 606 | 220 |
| 80 | Aug 4, '23 | So indies need to make a decision now. Do you want your entire work to be known as AI generated? Or do you want to be known as an artist, author, creator? The paths diverge and you | 4.6× | 137k | 4.8k | 275 | 22 |
| 81 | Aug 4, '23 | There will be people who purchase AI-made art, music, novels, classes, and more. The market will exist regardless of creators’ feelings. And that’s a fact regardless of how I or ot | 4.6× | 136k | 3.7k | 70 | 3 |
| 82 | Aug 4, '23 | But what I can say is if I see one facet of a product using gen AI in its current form—then it’s reasonable to assume the rest it is AI too. It’s an indicator that it’s fine to use | 4.5× | 132k | 3.7k | 106 | 6 |
| 83 | Jan 8, '24 | @tobieee Next time someone tells you they weren’t born with talent, show them this thread and tell them to win an Olympic medal instead. I’m so sick of people using it as excuse fo | 4.1× | 121k | 5.2k | 176 | 62 |
| 84 | Dec 7, '22 | The fact that my work has been copied by others countless times is a testament to its originality and style—including in this particular case, where it’s been exploited by the viol | 3.9× | 0 | 14k | 1.6k | 141 |
| 85 | Jan 8, '24 | @tobieee Guys coming into my thread saying I had it all, squandered it, and it makes me look bad. Guess what? That’s the point! Practice, hard work, and perseverance is what gets y | 3.4× | 100k | 3.9k | 82 | 31 |
| 86 | Mar 27, '25 | Much of generative AI is an average of the taste of the internet. Preferring an AI ripoff over my original just means you have average taste. It’s perfectly normal. | 2.9× | 85k | 4.3k | 259 | 110 |
| 87 | May 14, '25 | Maybe it’s a good time to buy/hoard our favorite shows, films, games, etc so we can still enjoy some things normally till the day we die | 2.7× | 80k | 5k | 1k | 181 |
| 88 | Dec 7, '22 | But how can a photo’s copyright be based on a pose alone? If having a unique pose is the premise for copyright protection of an image, then nearly all portrait works in the world w | 2.5× | 0 | 10k | 347 | 17 |
| 89 | Mar 28, '24 | It was very cool to find out that she was really, supremely good. Less cool that they barred women from the event at the next Olympics. 2/ | 2.3× | 68k | 3.4k | 58 | 10 |
| 90 | Mar 26, '25 | The final work is a crystallization of that experience and memory of those times, it’s proof of the days I’d lived. An AI didn’t sit there placing petals onto my model, and it feel | 2.2× | 64k | 4.1k | 243 | 44 |
| 91 | Dec 7, '22 | This ruling effectively allows anyone in Luxembourg to freely exploit, sell, license, and use my work without permission or respect for my rights, despite recognizing me as the cop | 2.1× | 0 | 8.7k | 343 | 14 |
| 92 | Jan 8, '24 | @supremacy_ace Even if I won an Olympic medal, you’re just gonna ignore ALL the medalists who weren’t born with the same talent or gift? Are you even hearing yourself? Doing art re | 2.1× | 63k | 3.4k | 26 | 11 |
| 93 | Mar 26, '25 | I did this series when my work wasn’t being accepted & was seen as neither commercial nor fine art enough for either worlds. I shot in my apartment, & flowers were one of t | 2.0× | 59k | 3.6k | 105 | 30 |
| 94 | Dec 7, '22 | I plan to appeal this decision, as it’s now not only an injustice for myself, but a worrying danger for the entire art and photography community in both Luxembourg and beyond. 6/ | 1.8× | 0 | 7.6k | 234 | 12 |
| 95 | Dec 7, '22 | The worst part is that the ramifications not only affect my own work, but sets a dangerous precedent that extends to ALL photographers and artists whose portraits are now under thr | 1.8× | 0 | 7.4k | 277 | 14 |
| 96 | Jun 24 | Hi!!! Super happy to share that after years and years of work, my new photobook is OFFICIALLY SLATED FOR RELEASE! 🥹 Dedicated to my love of anime, manga, art, and photography, the | 1.5× | 44k | 636 | 68 | 73 |
| 97 | Dec 8, '22 | Many people asked why don't I just give up and move on. The answer is simply because this isn’t right. The ruling will affect all artists and photographers whose works get stolen i | 1.1× | 0 | 4.5k | 158 | 8 |
| 98 | Feb 14, '18 | Hi! I'm Jingna, a photographer/artist. I produce, shoot, direct and edit. I have depression. Artists' lives may seem really carefree and easy. But the unseen can be so tough. Hope | 1.1× | 0 | 3.3k | 537 | 140 |
| 99 | Jun 1, '22 | @gouv_lu @kult_min @CityLuxembourg People spotted more copies this guy made of other people's photos. My situation wasn't the only time: | 1.0× | 0 | 3.6k | 433 | 44 |
| 100 | Dec 9, '22 | I just want to quit photography | 1.0× | 0 | 3.2k | 286 | 143 |
| 101 | Dec 8, '22 | I’ve never encountered something like this in other countries when dealing with infringements of my work in the past. I'm curious if this is a unique take on copyright law in Luxem | 0.8× | 0 | 3.2k | 100 | 7 |
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