[brucethemoose2]

Only if its published, or commercialized, right?

Yeah, widely publishing or making money off of someone's likeness is a whole different can of worms. I was thinking for strictly personal use.

[dragonwriter]

Nonconsensual porn laws generally aren't restricted to commercial use, and some include fake images with intentional and recognizable use of likeness (some also don't, its a mixed bag.)

Yes, commercial use of likeness is also an issue, and it may or may not be violated simply by distribution of something use the likeness on a commercial website like civitai.

[brucethemoose2]

Won't section 230 cover the former?

[dragonwriter]

Section 230 might cover right of publicity claims for an innocent host or user, but not for the user submitting the content.

Revenge porn laws are generally criminal, and as such unaffected by Section 230.

[bobthepanda]

Presumably a16z is not investing in a company for personal use.

[brucethemoose2]

Well that is worrying.

Right now CivitAI is basically Stable Diffusion social media. It doesn't seem profitable at all, even of they are selling user data or getting subs or whatever.

But if they start charging for downloads or whatever, they may cross a line into making money off likeness, and not just "hosting user content" like Facebook and Twitter and any oldschool image hosting service gets to say they do.