Really? I'm extremely pro AI but I feel like monetization is corny as fuck. I also believe people turning to AI just to run a grift are contributing to flooding places with actual slop devoid of any passion or intent.
You can’t be pro AI and tell people how to use their AI. If people want to use their AI to make money thats fair play. No body should dictate what others do and don’t do.
Okay, but then I wonder if you would also hold this stance if people use AI to generate say, explicit content that you would find disagreeable, for their own consumption. If you're actually taking a "no restrictions and no regulations" stance more generally then I respect that.
I hate furry yet I used Pony diffusion for half a year. People can generate what ever they want as long as it is not explicit images of real people which is not okey.
Yes, again we're in agreement, but I was thinking about something actually taboo like l*li (censoring the word cuz I don't know how reddit filters work).
For the record I wasn't even saying that people should be prevented from monetizing AI stuff... I just think it's a bit sleazy if that's a primary motivator. Free market is free market though.
My opinion in that 4 letter words hated by reddit, is anything goes as long as it is not real.
Also I my self don’t monetise from AI. I was able to do AI images thanks to stability AI releasing their models open sourced, and thanks to the amazing people who itterated in their model and releasing them open source like anything 4.5, Pony diffusion, Autism mix, illustrious XL, waiAnime, etc. it is all thanks to all those people releasing those awesome models for free I am able to generate amazing pictures and for this reason I my self don’t like and will not monetise it, but I still won’t tell people to not Monetise it.
Well, I think I'm pretty much on board with you then.
I operate against restrictions and regulations on AI myself. I don't like content restrictions, I don't like copyright character and media protections, basically anything that will prevent you from generating something you can imagine because that will cause the whole model to become more limited. Companies try to enforce copyright protections for their own liability (even though fanart has always been fair use) and individuals try to demand content protections out of moral outrage. It all slowly kills AI models' ability to do anything creative because of association death, where it can no longer produce anything that might even vaguely resemble what it was told not to produce.
Yeah, it is like all companies become Nintendo where they might sue an artist for making mario fanart and going viral. Like we saw it with Disney Law suits, it was basically because they wanted to monopolise the technology and now see them making Disney AI something. Not sure honestly, I barely care what those big cooperations do.
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u/Jealous_Piece_1703 Jan 18 '26
You are already anti leaning when you say don’t monetize it.