So my suggestion is fairly simple, when uploading something as a remix, you should be required to fill out a short description that covers what exactly you changed, too often i see things uploaded as a “remix” that seemingly have nothing changed
So i think users uploading them should have to state what it is they changed so that people can work out if its actually a remix or just someone re-uploading a model from somewhere else without really doing anything
Who enforces this?
How would someone determine if the person uploading is telling the truth?
How is punishment (if any) decided?
Will users care? Normal everyday users?
Bambu does, you can already report a model for a mismatch between the model and the description, that being said i never said they should be punished per-se, just that if you’re uploading a remix you should be required to list what you actually did, so that people downloading the model know whats different between yours and the original model
Some will, and given that its more an informational thing they might care more if they have that info, as it stands i can upload something that i can claim is a remix that has zero changes in order for it to appear to be a more recent version of the model to show up in the recent uploads section
Then the users enforce this, not BL. That was my point. While I support the effort I don’t think beyond those of us that already report, it will have much affect.
What I wanted to highlight is that without BL actually being actively involved this is not going to fly. Users already do their best, and that doesn’t even make a dent.
BL could devot resources to AI, or maybe create some algorithm to police this, I don’t see them spending the time or money. If so this would have probably been implemented before now on some other scale/problem.
I don’t want to discourage you, or discredit your opinion. I agree with you actually. Short of putting a lot of folks on duty all of the time, I don’t see anything being done.
Like i said, this isn’t necessarily about getting anything “done”
Its more about raising awareness for end users, having users have to actually be honest about why this think they are uploading a “remix” basically polices the issue for itself as people will know that if someone says “changed the support and infill settings” that its not actually a remix and will know to look out for those names
It also makes it easier for people to report as you can just point to the description the user has provided as evidence that its not actually a remix, or that they have lied about what they changed, it makes the whole process far easier and gives something for BBL to run an automated check against, if they see users just uploading a remix with random text or just a single period in the box they can just flag it for review automatically, any AI policing of this would need something to work with as its not going to go and download 2 models to do a quick checksum test against to see if they are identical as that could be easily spoofed by just changing the size of the model by 0.1% and re-saving it
There is no real downside to having an extra text field that shows up for remixes for the user to explain what they actually did for other users to be able to read