I admit, I kinda stopped following all the different AI models and aggregator sites after I found Google's ImageFx, Whisk, and Flow interfaces. But now even with a Pro account, I'm hitting the "unusual activity" filter with frustrating regularity, to the point where I need to refresh the page or clear cookies after only one or two generations, and sometimes even before it will generate my first prompt of the day. This back-end throttling has annoyed me to the point that I'm willing to break out of my comfort zone.
What generators are you all using, or which ones would you recommend I look into?
My biggest concern is that the generator is consistently capable of creating photo-quality or near-photo-quality images. Sensitive filters aren't really a concern of mine, as I rarely even trigger ChatGPT's content filters with my tame stuff.
I don't have a high-end computer, so self-hosted generators probably won't work for me.
I'm not really happy with generating images in ChatGPT, because the output is unpredictable whether it'll be photo-quality or obviously fake, and the image creator is so slow. I don't really want to subscribe to a new aggregator without knowing it'll give me decent output for a hopefully comparable price point of $20 USD/month (the aggregator sites I used to use are now crazy expensive or else shut down).
Bobographer said: I have also recently had strong censorship suddenly appear on the solutions I was using to generate both WAM images and WAM videos.
Unfortunately, this isn't censorship in Flow, at least not the "unusual activity" filter. It's just a straight-up back-end throttling (and not the good kind? lol) that Google seems to be using to reduce costs by forced reduction in demand.
Bobographer said: I have also recently had strong censorship suddenly appear on the solutions I was using to generate both WAM images and WAM videos.
Unfortunately, this isn't censorship in Flow, at least not the "unusual activity" filter. It's just a straight-up back-end throttling (and not the good kind? lol) that Google seems to be using to reduce costs by forced reduction in demand.
I get that occasionally but normally resolves itself quickly with a refresh or starting a new project. Flow is still by far the cheapest implementation of NB2/Pro and the censorship is pretty low. Api is marginally better but generally not noticeable.
According to Gemini, the "unusual activity" errors (which are plaguing me too) are another consequence of the servers being unable to handle the increased traffic following the forced migration from Whisk. Instead of displaying some kind of "server overload - please try again" error, "unusual activity" gets displayed instead and persists in the hope that users will go away and come back later when the servers aren't having an issue.
It makes sense as an explanation but, obviously, Google will lose users if they don't get on top of things. After all it was their decision to bulldoze through the discontinuation of Whisk when they did. It seems like they weren't ready to handle the implications of it and still aren't more than a month on.
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