Is the era of free open-source AI models ending? CivitAI sellers profit from spinoffs
DietAshamed2246 · reddit · 2026-10-19
The poster laments that free open-source culture is being eroded by commercial reskins: starting with fal-ai turning MiniMax-H3 into Fast-H3, CivitAI is now full of sellers charging for spinoffs cobbled together from free models like Moss, Flux 3 Klein, Krea-2 and MiniMax. He says he now prefers Hugging Face where nobody is trying to sell him anything — until Nvidia monetizes it — and jokes that CivitAI is turning into Facebook or YouTube, waiting for full-screen ads before free LoRA downloads.
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