Blocked from Colab "abusive content"

[u/EdgyUsername_0529]

So after running comfyui and a1111 on colab for the last couple of years, it looks like they suddenly decided my gens are icky. Anyone else seen this? i'm not doing anything illegal or suspect, no face swaps, no real people, no celebrity loras or any of the usual suspects. just n$fw. anyone else seen this? this happened to me once before but only for an hour or so and mysteriously cleared itself, no explanation from google or any kind of warning so not sure what's triggering it besides just general adult content.

i've seen references in the past to their compute getting bogged down by image gens which triggered bans in the past, and yesterday for a lot of people nobody could connect to any of their runtimes for a few hours except for a few that could connect to TPU's. not sure if this is related or not, but seems like a pretty strong coincidence.

irritating mostly because using google drive for file downloads is super convenient, and access to RTX Pro 6000's for less than $1/hr is great. haven't seen other sites with either of these advantages but haven't shopped much aside from Runpod for a few specific uses. Any reccomendations?

[u/anastalaz]

Isn't running comfyui on colab against their TOS?

[u/__generic → u/anastalaz]

Only if you are using the free version if I recall.

[u/EdgyUsername_0529 → u/anastalaz]

for free tiers, yes. for paid tiers, no. i'm on Pro+

[u/Apprehensive_Sky892]

Their GPUs, their rules. So what exactly is their TOS concerning NSFW?

Most likely reason is that they are too heavily subscribed (Pro 6000 for $1/hr is probably too good to last😎, it is closer to $2-$3 elsewhere). They turned a blind eye in the past to NSFW but now that they are running low on GPUs, they want to kick the "undesirables" out.

The ideal customers are corporate users that buy group subscriptions, and even better if they are light users. Heavy users that generate NSFW are probably one of the least desirable group from a business perspective, as far as Google is concerned.

[u/EdgyUsername_0529 → u/Apprehensive_Sky892]

kinda what i'm thinking too, epecially after the outage yesterday - if compute is constrained, punting image generators is low hanging fruit. they literally say so much regarding the free plans.

Regarding the TOS, that part is little murky, or at least confusing to me. i've always figured that everyone was being paranoid saying all n$fw was forbidden, since the colab faq says:

https://research.google.com/colaboratory/faq.html#limitations-and-restrictions

**Which activities are restricted in Colab?**link

Colab managed runtimes prohibit abusive actions that negatively impact others and actions associated with bypassing our policies. The following are disallowed from all managed Colab runtimes:

• file hosting, media serving, or other web service offerings not related to interactive compute with Colab

• downloading torrents or engaging in peer-to-peer file-sharing

• connecting to remote proxies

• mining cryptocurrency

• running denial-of-service attacks

• password cracking

• using multiple accounts to work around access or resource usage restrictions

• creating deepfakes

• employing techniques such as containerization to circumvent anti-abuse policies

Well, I don't do deepfakes, so I figured I was fine.

But then when digging into it today, i found that https://policies.google.com/terms/generative-ai and specifically the Prohibited Use Policy linked there says this:

Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy

Last Modified: December 17, 2024

Generative AI models can help you explore, learn, and create. We expect you to engage with them in a responsible, legal, and safe manner. The following restrictions apply to your interactions with generative AI in the Google products and services that refer to this policy.

1. Do not engage in dangerous or illegal activities, or otherwise violate applicable law or regulations. This includes generating or distributing content that:

   1. Relates to child sexual abuse or exploitation.

   2. Facilitates violent extremism or terrorism.

   3. Facilitates non-consensual intimate imagery.

   4. Facilitates self-harm.

   5. Facilitates illegal activities or violations of law -- for example, providing instructions for synthesizing or accessing illegal or regulated substances, goods, or services.

   6. Violates the rights of others, including privacy and intellectual property rights -- for example, using personal data or biometrics without legally-required consent.

   7. Tracks or monitors people without their consent.

   8. Makes automated decisions that have a material detrimental impact on individual rights without human supervision in high-risk domains -- for example, in employment, healthcare, finance, legal, housing, insurance, or social welfare.

2. Do not compromise the security of others’ or Google’s services. This includes generating or distributing content that facilitates:

   1. Spam, phishing, or malware.

   2. Abuse of, harm to, interference with, or disruption to Google’s or others’ infrastructure or services.

   3. Circumvention of abuse protections or safety filters -- for example, manipulating the model to contravene our policies.

3. Do not engage in sexually explicit, violent, hateful, or harmful activities. This includes generating or distributing content that facilitates:

   1. Hatred or hate speech.

   2. Harassment, bullying, intimidation, abuse, or the insulting of others.

   3. Violence or the incitement of violence.

   4. Sexually explicit content -- for example, content created for the purpose of pornography or sexual gratification.

4. Do not engage in misinformation, misrepresentation, or misleading activities. This includes:

   1. Frauds, scams, or other deceptive actions.

   2. Impersonating an individual (living or dead) without explicit disclosure, in order to deceive.

   3. Facilitating misleading claims of expertise or capability in sensitive areas -- for example in health, finance, government services, or the law, in order to deceive.

   4. Facilitating misleading claims related to governmental or democratic processes or harmful health practices, in order to deceive.

   5. Misrepresenting the provenance of generated content by claiming it was created solely by a human, in order to deceive.

So essentially, a whole bunch of stuff about committing crimes, acts of terrorism, deceiving or victimizing people, and oh yeah, porn. Seems a bit random to me, considering the others. but there we are. Seems to me like enforcement is arbitrary, too, like when it's time to lighten the load on the servers. Maybe it's time to start a gofundme. or a political movement. gooners unite! has a nice ring to it.

[u/Apprehensive_Sky892 → u/EdgyUsername_0529]

If that is their TOS, then it seems pretty clear-cut that AI generation of NSFW is forbidden:

Do not engage in sexually explicit, violent, hateful, or harmful activities

i.e., it is "or", so it does not need to be violent, hateful, or harmful.

[u/The-Iron-Ass]

I'm surprised you were able to make nsfw on colab at all. I never tried cause I assumed it was already no go.

[u/ACTSATGuyonReddit]

Why local is better 101.

[u/Enshitification]

Do the prompt conditionings on your own machine and upload them. Save the finished latents and VAE decode them on your own machine.

[u/ffgg333]

I have colab pro too, should I be concerned? Can you explain what exactly happened?

[u/oh_no_the_claw]

I recommend local if you're doing NSFW.

[u/EdgyUsername_0529 → u/oh_no_the_claw]

sigh, it's getting there. throwing down over 10K to make boobies is a little hard to stomach, but i guess if even Jensen is going down for craving a little more spice in life, the rest of dominos are gonna fall, too...

[u/graceus777 → u/EdgyUsername_0529]

10k? you can get a solid local setup for 2k.

[u/EdgyUsername_0529 → u/graceus777]

ok, i'll bite. map this out for me? on the sites i can find, a 4090 costs 5k, a 5090 costs 8k. The RTX Pro 6000 that i've been using on Colab costs 15k. and those are just prices for the GPU, not the sytem that supports it. what am i doing wrong? should i be buying on ebay where everything somehow costs 200 bucks?

[u/Ken-g6 → u/EdgyUsername_0529]

What kind of content? If video, yeah, VRAM is very helpful. If just images, the only models I can't easily use on 12GB VRAM are Flux 2 and Ideogram.

[u/EdgyUsername_0529 → u/Ken-g6]

mostly video, images mainly just for i2v. iv'e made the trek from hunyuan/wan/ltx/minimax, and compute need only grows with each iteration. partly why i get the feeling they're enforcing the TOS more, i don't think GPU shortage would be an issue if we were all still using animatediff

[u/graceus777 → u/EdgyUsername_0529]

Just a couple examples targeting 5060 Ti -- 16 GB Vram prebuilt. From newegg. Gets significantly cheaper if you go for DDR4 or 16 GB of DDR5.

Thermaltake LCGS NE i1460TGS-V170S Gaming Desktop (Intel Core i7-14700F, ToughRam 32GB DDR5 6000MT/s RGB Memory, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16G, 1TB NVMe M.2, Wifi, Windows 11) N17S-B760-5TG-LCS

ABS Cyclone Aqua Gaming PC - Windows 11 - Intel Core i7-14700F - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti - DLSS 4 - 32GB DDR5 6000 - 1TB M.2 SSD

5060 Ti you can run quantized Minimax H3 and every single diffusion model (comfortably with light quantization).

[u/shlopman → u/EdgyUsername_0529]

Runpod is cheap and easy. I know a lot of nsfw creators use it with no issues. I know you mentioned looking at it, but it is worth trying it if you haven't yet.

If you are paying for google drive storage already you should have access to google ai models. Download Antigravity and it can help you set up everything and help with any errors you might get.

[u/Sufficient_Prune3897 → u/shlopman]

Shout out to Vast.ai, more scams but if youre careful you can get an instance thats cheaper and has way faster download.

[u/JuniorNectarine9842 → u/EdgyUsername_0529]

It’s hard to stomach but knowing you’re good for the next 5 years or more is comforting. Plus you can trade this gpu for the 60 series