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by LoganDark 1100 days ago
But they can stress your servers with tons of requests. The point of requiring registration is usually to prevent DoS, not to prevent the models from being used for certain purposes.
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I can handle that with automatic throttling, unless you want to spend a lot of resources doing a malicious attack.
> unless you want to spend a lot of resources doing a malicious attack

I don't want to perform an attack at all. I just think you probably underestimate the resources that any random darknet hacker possesses.

You can easily limit the damage with a Captcha or similar. Anyway, it survived being in the from page of Hacker News for a couple hours, so I think it's fine.