Due to the unacceptable terms of use and the new deviant content policy, we have decided to permanently delete all past artworks containing images of humans or human-like creatures. We deeply regret the restriction of artistic freedom and freedom of expression by the platform and ask all followers to understand the necessary consequences. The team around people photographer Augustin Augustein is currently discussing how we will deal with these censorship changes.
Update 05/07/2025
by Lena@Team_Augustin
4741 images have been removed due to Terms of Service violations. Graphic Violence and/or gore is not allowed:
Symbolic protest monster is a TOS violation.
Symbolic protest monster is a TOS violation.
CivitAI is not able to read / process metadata from all images generated with SwarmUI. Programmer Alex “mcmonkey” Goodwin even recommends the removal of the extension Meta Data Converter due to incompatibility, when using it images within SwarmUI are no longer displayed. It is therefore a technical problem on the part of CivitAI not to be able to read the metadata including hashes of the resources. However, incorrectly read metadata will lead to the deletion of images in the future, which the platform cannot handle due to its own bugs.
Images generated with SwarmUI not only contain metadata, as you can see from the screenshot, they also contain the necessary list of models with their hashes so that civitai could automatically link link models - so it is up to the platform not to read and process metadata. As a result, the images violate the ToS, even though they contain metadata AND hashes as required.
Programs such as SD-Prompt-Reader recognize the metadata perfectly and can also recognize the format of the generator. CivitAI obviously ignores the metadata.
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About Augustin Augustein
The well-known people photographer Augustin Augustein (est. 1987) not only criticizes this because of the restriction of artistic freedom, he considers it even worse that artists cannot decide but must decide to support an unnatural, harmful “ideal of beauty” because they can only generate and post such images. This gives young people in particular a false image of their own bodies and is harmful. Augustin Augustein became known for his photo series (partly nude) of “women from next door”, i.e. the most natural representation and imagery possible. Augustin Augustein also worked for decades as a newshunter and concert photographer in Germany. One of his first well-known works was a photo series in which he accompanied dying people with his camera during their last days in a hospice and gave the emotional black and white photographs to their relatives. For several years, he documented an NGO's Christmas campaign for children with cancer on Christmas Eve and went directly from the children's hospital ward to the Christmas dinner for homeless people in order to write articles for the daily newspaper about their fates and society's treatment of homeless people. Augustin himself has been disabled since 2018. Today, Augustin works half time as a senior staff photographer and half time in geriatric care.