Unfortunately I don't want to pay for hundreds if not thousands of images I have to throw away because it decided some random innocent element is offensive and blurs the entire image.
What they are achieving with the over zealous safety issues are driving developers to on demand GPU hosts that will let them host their own models, which also opens up a lot more freedom. I wanted to use the stability AI api as my main source for Stable Diffusion but they make it really really hard especially if you want use it as part of your business.
I agree that given the status quo, it's a no-brainer to host your own model rather than use their SaaS – and likely one of the main reasons SAI doesn't seem to be on a very stable (heh) footing financially. To put it mildly.
Here is the red cube it censored because my innocent eyes wouldn't be able to handle it; https://archerx.com/censoredcube.png
What they are achieving with the over zealous safety issues are driving developers to on demand GPU hosts that will let them host their own models, which also opens up a lot more freedom. I wanted to use the stability AI api as my main source for Stable Diffusion but they make it really really hard especially if you want use it as part of your business.