Sunday Reflection : Open Source or Just Free Weights?

People literally don't care about licenses in the first place. An openrail++ model was finetuned into a model that uses faipl-1.0-sd with additional non-commercial permission. We know that you can't do it per openrail++ restrictions, but we basically don't care.

And then the model was finetuned into another model, but the second model only shared the weights, not even the source code, hyperparameters, and other ways to reproduce, not respecting their own license. Yet it forced the derived model by adding additional restrictions to share the output's prompt and workflow. We know that's not right and predatory, but we basically don't care.

There is an image generation platform that uses a faipl-1.0-sd model as the base of their in-house model and publish it as exclusive model. We know that's not right, but we basically don't care.

I almost forgot that we literally were that one community that used a leaked anime model for years. Of course I'm included, I still feel very guilty that and that's my sin I'll carry till I'm dead.

We don't care about licenses. We care that if there are weights, there is a way, especially for free stuff.

Ok, thanks for coming to my TED Talk. This is also my one-year reflection after releasing Animagine XL V3 with faipl-1.0-sd.