I’m beyond frustrated. No, scratch that. I’m absolutely livid. SeaArt.ai, the so-called “AI art community,” has been blatantly taking my LoRAs, hosting them on their platform, and ignoring most removal request I’ve sent. This isn’t just an isolated incident; it’s an ongoing pattern of theft and blatant disregard for creators like me. And I’ve had enough.
Let’s be clear: I work hard on my LoRAs. I spend countless hours tweaking datasets, training models, testing outputs, and refining the final product. I create these for my own use and, when I choose, I share them in spaces where I control their distribution. But SeaArt.ai? They don’t care. They scrape, steal, and repost my work without permission, slapping it onto their site for anyone to use, without consent, and most infuriatingly, without any option for me to remove them.
I have reported this issue multiple times. I’ve contacted their support. And guess what? Crickets most of the time. If I’m lucky, they might take down one or two files after weeks of badgering, only for more to pop up right after. It’s like playing a rigged game of whack-a-mole, except the only people winning are the ones profiting off my stolen content.
This isn’t just a personal grievance; it’s a systemic problem. SeaArt.ai is enabling and encouraging this kind of theft by making it far too easy for users to upload stolen models with zero oversight. They benefit from hosting a massive library of LoRAs, regardless of where they came from or who actually created them.
So, what’s left for me to do? Do I watermark my LoRAs? Encrypt them? Stop sharing them entirely? It shouldn’t have to come to that. Artists and creators deserve platforms that respect their work, not ones that treat it as free real estate for opportunists and thieves.
If you’re a creator, be warned: SeaArt.ai does not care about your rights. And if you’re a user, maybe think twice about where your “free” models are really coming from because chances are, they were stolen from someone like me.
Enough is enough. SeaArt.ai, do better. And until you do, I’ll keep fighting to protect my work from platforms like yours that think theft is just part of the business model.
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I guess a real question is will Civit help stop this? What can be done to help protect Civit users from this?
my newest request to them -
my older interactions after loosing my temper in there #model-claim channel seemed good and i was told removal would be done (white i did see it all go poof in seconds - but now i see a lot is back)
and then another request after finding user uploads (witch are still up)
This post is not about making loRA of art styles do not start fights over that in the comments. You can't copyright an art style only the actual art.
I see a lot of comments about people being ok with there stuff being scraped and posted there but I want control over the images and loras I spend time on. I want to delete an image and not go oh great that's still on seaart and I hate how it looks now.
and a win finally good luck to anyone else fighting this battle