Hey all, no this is not a whine fest, this is not a "OMFG CIVIT IS THIS THAT OR THE OTHER THING" article..
It's a: As always, this is now almost the third year into this stuff for me - and the updates are sparse for june for different reasons!
Yes: Civitai is going UP AND DOWN on it's own, that's a pattern - but in defense of them? This happens, companies do weird things they try something new, and AI is extremely finickey and right now going through lawsuits again against Midjourney that will effect Open source at some stage...
As for my updates:
I'm HEAVILY developing Dataset Tools so ti's more robust, i'm trying to develop it to a point that it's not just some SILLY tool. I'm sort of determined that while i suck at programming, i've learned enough that this is now that sort of thing I want to keep at.
I am out of ideas for Loras. I'm sorry, beyond any commissions i got going on my brain is just "FARTED OUT" of ideas - Trying to use g emini to drive up ideas was a horrible bad idea because it just didn't work out the way I wanted lol. No i'm not quitting. Angel and Earth aren't quitting... We're just .... low priority on training right now.
We're not quitting AI, but Angel got into FFXIV. We're just about to do Ktisis Hyperboeria today... and I Got dragged into New Game + ... Between programming, and handling this new relationship status i'm in... I've just been a little more busy.
We're also restructuring some of our branding, K/N's discord is totally fine - Earth & Dusk's main discord is staying BUT it's getting restructured.. as well as 0FTH3N1GHT is getting the same treatment soon.
We've been testing more early access of our models over at TensorArt, this isn't because we don't trust Civitai, it's because the buzz isn't totally flowing and we're struggling to monetize again because the monthly subs aren't available right now AND i'm not making enough currently to sub anyways. Again not against Civitai, this time around it's situational and it's not something THEY caused. (Look i'm being honest, send me to court if you think i'm lying but no don't really XD)
New Models up at TA that will come to Civitai for free later on:
"She Made me Do It" https://tensor.art/models/876639561311090375/She-Made-Me-Do-It-v0.1
"Helluva Time" https://tensor.art/models/874003834370825381/Helluva-Time-0.1
Yes, they are coming home to Civitai soon, I just am a little tired again :D
I'm not burned out all the way, i'm just aware I can't hyperfocus like I used to.