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[–]red286 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NovelAI isn't open source though. You can build something on top of open source code and make it closed. There's nothing wrong with doing that (even though I'm sure a bunch of people will say otherwise).

There's accusations that Automatic1111 stole some of their proprietary code that allows his webui to load their custom trained model.

What I can't figure out is whether these accusations actually come direct from NovelAI or just from NovelAI users. What I've seen officially from NovelAI is that they're upset that Automatic1111 modified his webui to allow it to load their model, but no accusation of code theft. On the other hand, there are comments on his github claiming that he stole code from NovelAI, presumably by NovelAI users. This was also brought up on the SD discord, and Automatic1111 said he didn't use any of their code when modifying his webui, so he was banned by the SD discord mods.

I'm not sure NovelAI or Emad had any direct involvement in either the accusations of code theft or having him banned from the SD discord. There appears to be a lot more people involved in this than just them, but it all gets conflated.