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Last week, PetaPixel reported that Cara, an anti-AI photo app, had all of its content scraped into a dataset despite the platform explicitly not consenting to the practice. It turns out the story has a happy ending.
After a Redditor boasted about scraping 12 million images from Cara , a practice used to build generative AI image models, a visual artist who goes by Nijhia reached out to him and began talking. Over the course of hours, the scraper had a change of heart and eventually agreed to delete
From arrests linked to the Hong Kong operations of beauty chain Opatra London to a surge in online complaints against other skincare brands, high-pressure sales tactics remain widespread and continue to take a toll on consumers.
Why do such malpractices remain widespread despite the city’s Trade Descriptions Ordinance, which criminalises aggressive commercial practices that significantly impair a consumer’s freedom of choice?
The South China Morning Post spoke to legal experts about common hard-sell scenarios, how shoppers can protect themselves and where the legal line is drawn.


※本文是重新編輯 2025年9月21日公開的文章 後再次刊登。 Text and Photographed by tomit
不知不覺間,書越來越多,最後堆得滿出來。
像是橫放後一層層堆在上面, 我家的書架早已呈現爆滿狀態 。

A coroner's report found that the death of 29-year-old Abisay Cruz following a police altercation in 2025 was accidental, but that the hogtie technique used by police to restrain him may have been a contributing factor.
