ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2025 Entry 25th July 2025: Post 2: CivitAI - AI for all - Unless if you are in the UK. CivitAI - AI for all - Unless if you are in the UK. It was with great sadness that I logged into one of my favourite AI image generators last night to discover as a UK resident I was blocked from using the site. This is the first time in all my years of using the internet that I have been specifically blocked just for being located in the UK. CIVITAI is a pretty successful AI image generating site that gives users the freedom to create artwork based around their own preferred art styles. They have their own code of conduct and moderate and manage the site effectively. The user base is quite vast and feeds into other AI generating sites. To understand the training processes and how the processes interweave with each other you need to research how AI generation works in the public domain. Sadly the UK government recently introduced a whole raft of legislation that has forced a number of changes to AI generation. I am not going to comment on the actions of governments. I do feel very sorry for all those in the UK that are now excluded from CIVITAI. As a creator myself I know just how much effort and energy goes into what you do. To lose this all under a blanket ban is truly extreme. I will reflect with sadness on my hours of fun I had with the site. I am troubled that this is the thin end of the wedge and other sites may have to close their doors to the UK. Fortunately when one door closes another opens and the community will shift. That is the nature of the way things go on the internet. Trouble is the restrictive measures do harm the very thing it was intending to protect. Cus instead of users being active in established well managed communities they will be forced into darker corners of the web where there is less control. I have been around the web long enough to know this is a moving target. I am also very much aware that nothing lasts for ever. I have drives littered with the histories of favourite sites and their content long since vanished. But I do sense there is an intrusion here that could impact on the creative freedoms of those on the internet. Not sure where this is all going to lead to be honest. For me I stay very much on the fringes of the web and keep well out of it. I know the community is getting very vocal about this. Time will tell. But for me I have already closed the site file down and focus on other avenues of possibilities. There is always something else. CivitAI - AI for all - Unless if you are in the UK.

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