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Yeah fuck people and their work and aspirations, we could make money instead /s

• sharperguy 3y ago
  Don't really care about comercial products like midjourney. Open source models are the future, and improving them will benefit all humanity, unless they are hobbled by restrictive copyright lawsuits, forcing everyone underground who isn't a massive corporation with a huge team of lawyers.
  • nhinck3 3y ago
    Whats the difference between a commercial product and an open source product _to_ a commercial entity or a consumer of an artistic endeavour?
    • autoexec 3y ago
      > Whats the difference between a commercial product and an open source product _to_ a commercial entity or a consumer of an artistic endeavour? To a consumer, the difference between a commercial product and an open source product is price, security, dependability, and freedom. Commercial products will cost as much as the company that controls it can get away with charging and if they can charge a lot they will happily price out many people if that still makes them money. companies will also take a commercial product and add anti-features, spy on their users, prevent anyone from building off of the work to create something new, disable/discontinue the product at any time for any reason, etc. To the consumer open source is much better. If I want art and it comes from open source tools, I can use those same tools to modify/copy/customize that art according to my needs or learn to create similar art at no cost. If I want art from a commercial product it will likely be DRM filled trash and I probably won't be able to use the same tools to modify the art or to create my own similar artistic works without being exploited somehow.