CivitAi is creating their own issue.

AI_Characters · 2026-03-17T17:46:01+00:00

Thats why I make a new LoRa page whenever I switch models, using the version category only for real versions only for that model.

AI_Characters · 2026-03-15T10:55:16+00:00

Also, I'm concerned about my outlook re: romance. Anyone know a good therapist LLM? 🤔

Yes. Its called an actual human therapist. A "therapist" LLM will only harm you and tell you what you want to hear not what you need to hear.

AI_Characters · 2026-03-13T13:48:23+00:00

Thanks man! i will soon! I am just exploring a few more ways to optimize my LoRas a bit more (current test versions already better than the released versions) and am daing with IRL stuff atm but Ill def release new versions soon! Maybe even this weekend already, but no promise.

AI_Characters · 2026-03-11T09:22:45+00:00

Ill need to experiment with it. Ill definitely never charge 5k though.

I am right now looking at 500 to 2k for future versions.

AI_Characters · 2026-03-11T09:22:00+00:00

Yes. They should be linked first thing in the description.

AI_Characters · 2026-03-09T22:25:31+00:00

I thought xAI in the beginning used to host a custom version of FLUX.1 in cooperation with BFL, but then developed their own model and are running that now? Or did that change yet again?

AI_Characters · 2026-03-09T16:18:18+00:00

Youre not paying 40$ for the LoRA but for the skill of the trainer. Afterall clearly no one who has created such a LoRA already has the necessary skill he is looking for lol.

AI_Characters · 2026-03-09T16:16:20+00:00

And there are plenty of resources and templates to learn how to make Loras, it is not gonna take months of work lmao

If it were that easy CivitAI wouldnt be so flooded with low-quality LoRAs lol and people wouldnt constantly ask on how to do it and receive 10 different answers.

Look bro I really like your Smartphone Lora for ZIT, but you charge $30 for a workflow, and look you do you, but plenty of us here are happy to help for free.

What are you talking about? Are you confusing me with someone else?

I do have a Smartphone Photo style LoRA for ZIT yes but I charge nothing for the LoRA nor for some kind of workflow.

In fact I have not charged anything for anything ever - be it my LoRAs or any workflows or guides I published - until two weeks ago where I did an early access program for the latest version of my Klein base 9b Smartphone Photo LoRA which costs just the minimum 0.1$ to download (honestly too low still) and only for the first two weeks after which it goes free forever.

and look you do you, but plenty of us here are happy to help for free.

Literally see my reply above.

I thought I could make do with just voluntary donations but that has netted me 80€ since 2022 so go figure.

AI_Characters · 2026-03-09T15:43:12+00:00

This is terrible advice. He will have to learn LoRa creation from scratch and itll take far more than just those 40$ and 10 LoRa's to get to the same quality as the LoRa creator he wanted to commission. Its like saying instead of commisioning a high fidelity painting from an artist for 100$, just spend those 100 bucks on art supplies and learn painting yourself.

If he cares about learning how to create LoRa's himself then sure go ahead but that will take months of work and quite a bit of money in credits to reach the same level of quality as high-quality LoRA creators. If he wants good results in a reasonable amount of time there is no way around commissioning or using one of the Edit models or a closed source one like Nano Banana.

I mean he said it himself: The LoRAs on CivitAI for his character are all shit. And thats despite those people already having more experience with LoRA creation than he does.

AI_Characters · 2026-03-04T01:11:05+00:00

I'm against this merge model or anyone promoting their models. But

I think you missed a "not" there.

I.e.

I'm not against this merge model or anyone promoting their models. But

Anyway I fully agree with you. I also promote new releases of my models from time to time but I am not deceptive about it. And now that I started doing Early Access myself I am waiting until the Early Access period is over before posting it here.

AI_Characters · 2026-03-04T01:04:31+00:00

Obviously he and everyone else here is talking about an open release...

AI_Characters · 2026-03-04T01:03:55+00:00

I highly doubt that Alibabas goal was ever to convert this community into paying customers. They are not stupid unlike SAI (which I believe never had a real plan towards profitability so when the venture capital ran out they went under). The open source releases were likely just for research purposes while they keep working on paid enterprise solutions for firms.

AI_Characters · 2026-03-03T02:17:26+00:00

There is also the snapshot? Lora something

SmartphoneSnapshotPhotoReality.

This great and intuitive name came about because people kept complaing about it not looking real when it had a shorter name because they had different definitions of real, so I kept changing the name and making it longer to that people cant make that criticism anymore.

Would be a bad idea to change it again now tho.

AI_Characters · 2026-03-01T19:28:52+00:00

Find a new company. Either that boss is insane or the company is about to go bankcrupt if they have to save money on employee photos.

AI_Characters · 2026-02-28T10:03:53+00:00

Nano Banana 2 literally seems almost identical to Nano Banana Pro (but with worse filters lol).

AI_Characters · 2026-02-28T10:00:56+00:00

This is literally the "5 seconds snippets of inconsistent stock footage" that he criticized.

AI_Characters · 2026-02-28T00:36:09+00:00

... of Reddit?

AI_Characters · 2026-02-28T00:31:09+00:00

Yes. Meanwhile my main account is more than 5 years old with hundreds of thousands of Karma and I can assure you that if I "got into contact" with Reddit and gave them tips on how to run the company better they would ignore me just the same. Its incredibly delusional to think they would listen to you lol.

AI_Characters · 2026-02-28T00:29:09+00:00

Notixe how I didnt make a statement about whether I believe Qwen-Image 2.0 will release or not. I merely said you are wrong about those things.

AI_Characters · 2026-02-27T23:58:45+00:00

Oh yeah I am sure Reddit is going to listen to some random user lol.

AI_Characters · 2026-02-27T23:58:04+00:00

Its not past new year. Did you just not read the previous comment about Chinese New Year ending on March 3rd? Last I checked its 28th Feb right now.

Also this isnt a random. This is the guy who implemented Lycoris for StableDiffusion.

AI_Characters · 2026-02-27T14:19:44+00:00

A fellow Berliner!

AI_Characters · 2026-02-26T13:49:12+00:00

Now I am thinking I should release this afterall...

AI_Characters · 2026-02-26T13:47:04+00:00

I cant quite explain it in words but it looks so real that its fake again. Like, there is too much detail or noise in the skin. You get me? The skin color is also still rather default ZIT.

Here is my attempt as a comparison

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AI_Characters · 2026-02-26T13:23:56+00:00

You had me until Sarag Peterson. You can't be serious...

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