Google Colab has started banning Stable Diffusion WebUI users

A four-word tweet with no context doesn't seem like the optimal submission.

The Reddit thread seems better: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/12t8tc7/is...

In particular, this appears to be just about the free tier.

This response seems relevant IMO,: https://twitter.com/thechrisperry/status/1649189902079381505

Headline is misleading, Google hasn't banned anybody, just restricting free tiers from running a particular distribution of Stable Diffusion on Colab.

I've always been amazed that Colab just hands out GPU compute for free to anybody that wants one. Obviously if you hand out free stuff that's expensive elsewhere (vast.ai charges at least 10cents/hr for a K80, colab runs for 12hrs, that's $1.2 in value to every free tier user) then they're gonna use it, so restrictions only make sense.

Reason: "We prioritize interactive notebook compute for free of charge tier users; the stable diffusion webUI usage got super big; we can't support the usage growth on our team's budget."

Are they banning Google accounts for this?

Not sure why I got downvoted from this. The link shows the message:

> You may be executing code that is disallowed, ant his may restrict your ability to use Colab in the future.

Is this restricted because your google account gets deactivated or something more reasonable?

*Free users. Paid users are fine according to Chris Perry (Colab Product Lead)

i have no idea what any of this means