Each of these reads like an extremely horny and angry man yelling their basest desires at Pornhub’s search function.

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    Compute costs money, it’s more ethical to charge your users than it is to throw shady ads at them which link to malware.

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      Also buying and eventually replacing expensive hardware. Running AI at scale requires hundreds of thousands of dollars of infrastructure.

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        Sure, if you have hardware and/or time to generate it client side. I’m just saying that if you run a web service and decide to charge for it, that’s better than most of the alternative monetization strategies.

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      I get no malware or shady ads when I generate AI images with Stable Diffusion. I don’t know what kind of sites or tools you’re using where you’re getting shady ads, but you’re getting ripped off.