That’s interesting - do you have an example of a model that was pulled off and made subscription-only? I saw this post and was like, “Civitai has this covered,” but seems like I’m wrong.
Deliberate was gone for a little while (available in HuggingFace now) and I think I’ve seen others be taken down too for violating licenses or the author doing shady things to boost stats. Some older models are also really hard to find. Even though they’re low quality by current standards they did seem to have a bit more creativity.
Might be misremember on the subscription thing. Maybe it was v1-v2 of some model was free to download and anything newer was API only. Regardless I think authors are free to pull stuff whenever they choose.
That’s interesting - do you have an example of a model that was pulled off and made subscription-only? I saw this post and was like, “Civitai has this covered,” but seems like I’m wrong.
Deliberate was gone for a little while (available in HuggingFace now) and I think I’ve seen others be taken down too for violating licenses or the author doing shady things to boost stats. Some older models are also really hard to find. Even though they’re low quality by current standards they did seem to have a bit more creativity.
Might be misremember on the subscription thing. Maybe it was v1-v2 of some model was free to download and anything newer was API only. Regardless I think authors are free to pull stuff whenever they choose.