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How does that make sense given the models on civit are free

Many of the most popular finetuned models are sponsored by paid image generation services, which provide either funding or GPU time for training. Those generation services won't be able to use SD3 under the current licensing, so there will be no incentive for them to sponsor improvements.

Is that true? I’m under the impression that most of the big name check points are run by a few oddly passionate people’s personal hardware? Like pony.

And then Lora’s are small enough to do without large resources

There will be no Pony for SD3 with the current licensing, per the creator: https://civitai.com/articles/5671/towards-pony-diffusion-v7-...

Loras are easy to train on consumer hardware, but a fine-tune like Pony takes significantly more resources and a lot of work in terms of image tagging, curation, etc.

My read of that post is that they will, in all likelihood, just get a commercial license and and make pony for SD3.

I heard they tried and were denied and announced it was not going to happen.

This post is from at most two days ago. It seems unlikely that your rumor here is more up to date than this

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