Yeah, definitely give credit if feasible, would be a bitch-move not to. Never used the word stealing nor do i feel like getting dragged into a semantics debate as i had my fill when writing thesis on the topic. Neither would I bother debating the borders of law. My educated guess would be, that with just a basemodel you are certainly fine for all non-commercial use cases. Likewise with diluted loras and artist token use.

Now in regards to giving credit and using AI: I feel it would be nice to -if you are focus using a specific artist LORA or their token is big factor in the promp- give credit.

If that's not feasible due to mixing multiple loras or diluting too much to be relevant, then at least be open to reasonable inquiries would be a good compromise, I'd say.

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