They have Glaze as a built in tool on Cara to make the use of it more convenient and to raise awareness. But it‘s still the artists job to run their pictures through it. That means not every image on Cara has been glazed.

Also the last scraper claimed to have a way to undo the glazing although Glaze itself claims all previous attempts to break it have failed so far.

Just because one of the founders has Chinese roots doesn‘t mean it‘s a Chinese company. In fact Cara is based in the US and falls under Californian jurisdiction.

Also in their FAQ it says:

How does AI detection work on Cara?

Cara uses a third party service for AI image detection and moderation. As a small team with millions of images on the platform, we do not have the manpower to manually review every image uploaded.

We do not use any of our user’s data to train generative AI models, and we do not give permission to any third party service providers to train on our users’ data either.

This is what they wrote in the article

[…] and initial estimates suggest it could be cost-competitive with fossil gasoline once produced at an industrial scale.

I guess it‘s very vague and honestly I don‘t know anything about this field. The article just felt uplifting for me, hence why I posted it.

The way I understood is not to compete with the ongoing elecrification of traffic but to develop an alternative for the remaining combustion engines that will likely stay for who knows how long.