Civitai

The Home of Open-Source Generative AI

4.1•12 reviews•

240 followers

The Home of Open-Source Generative AI

4.1•12 reviews•

240 followers

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Civitai is the leading Gen AI Creator Hub, whose mission is to make tools and resources universally accessible. Offering hosting, image generation, and LoRA training services, Civitai has grown to become a community of 5M monthly active members, bringing together a vibrant collective of artists, developers, and filmmakers focused on growing the creator ecosystem. Civitai leads the Project Odyssey AI Film Initiative (projectodyssey.ai) and Artist in Residence Program (air.civitai.com).

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🔎 First found out about Civitai when I checked out "The Top 50 Gen Al Web Products, by Unique Monthly Visits" list by Andreessen Horowitz (aka a16z). 🤖 Since then I have used the product to improve my own Stable Diffusion experiments refined with their vast LoRa models for fine tuning. 🧑‍🎨 Check out their community of creators. They are doing some of the most artistic work with AI Images and Video. ✖️ @frankramosdev https://x.com/frankramosdev

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2yr ago

ECPower

It is a must-have product and the best community, especially for Stable Diffusion users.

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2yr ago

Telebugs

Hey, How do you handle moderation and quality control for the models and art shared on the platform? Congrats on the launch!

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2yr ago

DepsHub

Congratulations on the launch! Is there an option to use a model from Hugging Face? Thanks.

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2yr ago

Congrats on the launch! I've got a burning question that's been tickling my brain: Are we able to share more than just our awesome creations in this community? 🤔 And I'm wondering if there's a treasure trove of templates or parameter settings that we can dig into and share with each other.

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2yr ago

CivitAI is a place where you can find lots of special tools to make amazing pictures with AI. You can share your cool art with others and chat with people who love making art with computers.

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2yr ago

This platform is a game changer for AI art enthusiasts and developers! 🌟

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2yr ago

4.1

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Reviewers mostly see Civitai as a lively, useful hub for sharing, learning, and discovering models, LoRAs, prompts, and creator techniques, with a community many call friendly and active. Users like the built-in generation, asset hosting, tutorials, and support for both beginners and heavy creators. The main complaints are recurring: slow or buggy performance, weak search and filtering, inconsistent moderation, bot and low-quality upload spam, and serious concern from some users about underage sexual content and filters that do not reliably block it.

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I personally use this website a lot, however there are a ton of issues that are either annoying, or just terrible. First Issue: There is indeed a lot of pornographic images depicting child/young looking characters in user posted images. However, you can report "realistic" underage content since that goes against their TOS but anything that is anime/cartoonish are not? I don't know why that is the case as it still is depicting underage characters in sexual situations or nude. Second issue: Bots, Lots and Lots of bots! My goodness, if I could get a nickel for each user I have blocked/hidden I would live comfortably in the current economy. There are indeed a lot of members with usernames like "asd123494" etc. And there are plenty of buzz harvesting accounts that are just there to post a lot of images just to get buzz. This is annoying since I like to look at user image posts to see what a particular models does. But sometimes images are not even related to the model or are "Cross Posts" linking to another lora so it isn't indicative to what that lora/model does. On a side-note, there really should be a limit to how many models can be uploaded by one user. There are some members that post 10-20 models a day and it floods the model pages with their content. I am sure they are either Buzz farming or just uploading a ton of low quality models. It's annoying for sure, but at least you can block that user. Third Issue: Buzz earned is really low, and has very little value other than cosmetics which I might add are terribly expensive. Feels extremely grindy and more inline with a MMORPG with how little you get. I could care less to even bother with it since I am only using the website to download models, and any models that are "early-access" and require buzz I ignore. There is usually a 7-day wait until it is free to download, and I am quite content waiting for that timer. I won't spend what little buzz I get on a model that may not even work or is poorly trained. Unless there is some form of quality control from civitai, I won't use that feature. Fourth Issue: While Civitai does offer online image generation and model training, it is very lackluster. I have tested it versus running training on my local machine with the same exact dataset and parameters and the results are not as good as doing it locally. Generating images online are sub-par as well. If you can run A1111 locally, I would recommend it over the website, you don't need buzz, there are more features, and the quality of the images is miles better than Civitai's website generator. Heck I would even prefer MidJourney before I would consider Civitai's generator. TLDR: * Civitai's website is best used as a model database for downloading models that are made by creators. Like the model, tip them directly not with buzz. * Too much porn/child porn * Generators/model creator is terrible * Cash-grabby with their Buzz gimmick. (yes it's a gimmick) * Too many bots, admins doing nothing to filter those accounts.

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