{"id":1805,"date":"2026-11-11T09:39:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T09:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2026-11-11T09:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T09:39:49","slug":"i-need-to-move-away-from-a-i-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/i-need-to-move-away-from-a-i-services\/","title":{"rendered":"I need to move away from A.I. &#8220;services.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been thinking about the situation with Treblo.  This is the second time I&#8217;ve been locked out of my account, or had my account limited, unless I agreed to a new &#8220;Terms of Service.&#8221;  At least I wasn&#8217;t paying for Treblo, but I don&#8217;t have the time to go over a lengthy ToS and give it due legal consideration.  For those who expect to be nobodies forever, maybe it doesn&#8217;t matter.  I&#8217;m not a somebody, but the web traffic indicates that I may be, very slowly, getting somewhere.  I don&#8217;t want to give Treblo the right to use my image in perpetuity, in whatever medium ever exists.  Not that they have it, but would the ToS allow them to grab a pic of me from somewhere else?  Can they create an A.I. avatar of me, and use it as their brand ambassador?  Yeah, I think I&#8217;m moving on.  ACE-Step 1.5 XL is free, open source, and can run natively  &#8211;   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ACE-Step 1.5 XL = Free Music Generation in ComfyUI!\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jYygjz6Gby4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My computer can&#8217;t run any of this stuff, and it will be a good long while before I can get a new one &#8211; but this is the direction I want to go in.  No more &#8220;services,&#8221; no more subscriptions.  As a general principle, it&#8217;s best not to be in any legal agreements with anyone, nor have recurring payments going out.  Can&#8217;t help it with the power company, or water company, but I don&#8217;t need to make more music.  I&#8217;d like to, but I&#8217;ve got plenty to release still, and there&#8217;s enough already posted.  Most successful musicians of the past haven&#8217;t released as much.  It&#8217;s not doing a lot for the comic anyway, although it is getting some listens.  Not enough to sweat bullets over, if I can&#8217;t release any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, the comic with Yaoi Hokkaido and the dwarf is an example of something that might be a good idea.  I came up with the joke at work.  The illustrations are A.I. variations of the familiar panel from Trekkee Muyo!  Now the comic is becoming a technology demonstrator and social experiment.  What strange times we live in.  I can draw these pictures, but I can&#8217;t get paid to draw these pictures.  I <em>can<\/em> get paid to do menial labor in a factory.  Which doesn&#8217;t leave me time to draw my own drawings.  I have to get the A.I. to do new drawings, based on what I drew years ago.  Well, one foot in front of the other, and maybe we&#8217;ll get to a better place &#8211; but the rules of &#8220;supply and demand&#8221; are what they are.  There is not enough demand for my &#8220;real artist drawings&#8221; for me to be able to supply them.  The comic is still a personal indulgence which needs to be minimized, because it takes the place of work that has real value.  But, it&#8217;s good for my mental health and perhaps it&#8217;s an investment that will pay off in the future.  I&#8217;ll keep it going in some form.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the situation with Treblo. 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