• “I did it for 100% free”.

    5 minutes later…

    “Hosting is not cheap and I only have fraction of the library big companies have. Donate to support this project”.

    Looks like a cool project but if significant number of people started using this he would have to start charging his users. He’s creating a website that one day could compete with getty, not killed their business model.

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      I haven’t even watched the video, but if the server would implement sharing via torrents, it would be perfectly horizontally scalable, at minimum cost for the server owner. (I assume from the comments that it’s not what is going on at the moment though.)

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    Did you do it with “AI”? Because that’s another business model you might want to not support.

    No, I’m not watching your Youtube video because business models.

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      I’m pretty sure OP is not the one that made the video.

      There is no mention of AI in the video at all.

      TLDW: The creator made a search engine for public domain clips that is free (as in money free), since he was annoyed with stock footage providers charging money for them.

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    This isn’t a business model, you just used an img2img model and had the prompt day “remove the watermark”. Those who make models and run the apis have a business. You (or the creator of this) do not.