: Sam Yang vocally opposed the creation and distribution of models trained on his work without his permission, arguing that it devalued his years of effort and threatened his livelihood.
The model’s existence sparked a massive debate on the ethics of data scraping and "style theft." samdoesarts v2.ckpt
: It was hosted on platforms like Hugging Face and shared on forums like Reddit as a free download. The Ethical and Legal Firestorm : Sam Yang vocally opposed the creation and