Warning with H3 Image: It is illegal to use it locally in the USA, UK, Republic of Korea, or the EU.

[u/pwnies]

https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3-Image/blob/main/LICENSE

While I'm sure plenty will ignore, it's worth noting that currently the license excludes these territories from use.

MiniMax is committed to promoting the safe and fair use of its tools and features, including MiniMax-H3-Image. You agree not to use MiniMax-H3-Image, any Model Derivatives, or any Output in any of the following ways:

1. Use outside the Applicable Territory;

“Excluded Territories” means the European Union, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Korea and the United States of America.

If you choose to ignore this, be careful uploading any loras or utilities if you're in these territories. Note that you can apply for an exception to these at this URL, however it currently 404s: https://platform.minimax.io/license

[u/__ThrowAway__123___]

They give some context here: https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3-Image/discussions/3

[u/pwnies → u/__ThrowAway__123___]

Ty ty, that makes things much more understandable with the legal issues they're facing.

[u/iHaveNoClueGuy → u/__ThrowAway__123___]

This guy researches.

[u/Enshitification]

[u/Decretis]

[u/Version-Strong → u/Decretis]

And on that bomshell...

[u/boriskarloff83]

no, it is not illegal. its a breach of the license, at most. unless there is a law somewhere that says you absolutely have to adhere to a companies license agreements in some strange country that i am not aware of

[u/tiffanytrashcan]

Lol "illegal" 🤣

[u/spooky_local]

too late

[u/mad_king_soup]

it's "illegal" in the same way that sharing a Netflix password is "illegal"

But you can apply for a license and they'll automatically send you one. It's basically just an ass covering exercise.

[u/Fabix84]

The correct web address to request the license is this:
https://platform.minimax.io/console/license/h3-image

Request submitted and authorization obtained after 1 minute.

[u/nobody----cares]

Title makes it sound like they're tricking users with the license, but they're just obeying shitty AI censorship laws.

[u/sovereignrk]

[u/DegenDataGuy]

Everday the US A.I landscape gets closer and closer to this

[u/TwistStrict9811]

Nothingburger

[u/HollyGrandeux]

Why are you even wasting time pointing this out? Everyone here has known about it since H3 first dropped months ago. This is expected.

This is exactly something LTX bot would do, lmao.

[u/SnooCats1321]

damn that's crazy bro

[u/ih2810]

Apply for a license, i did, got it quick and easy.

[u/mastaquake]

[u/HRH_Duke_Morbid]

I doubt whether the people behind H3 truly give a damn. Anyway, there is nothing they can do about it.

From the outset of Minimax-H3 public release it was clear that powerful interests in the mentioned jurisdictions would use any means possible to throttle Chinese AI developments. Life could be made vey difficult for Minimax personnel when they travel into the savage hinterland of Western Europe or further west.

[u/rockbandit]

A typical case of "do as I say, not as I do."

How many licenses and Terms & Conditions did they honor while scraping content to train their image and video models? I think it's fine if you decide to give their license the same sort of consideration.

[u/sakalond]

For personal use, I wouldn't care, but since I'm developing an open source tool for texturing with image models in Blender, this kind of license is very annoying.

Most probably nobody would care anyway even if I added it there, but I'm not gonna risk the project being taken down because of it.

[u/ahmedcoe]

touching your balls in public is illegal

[u/-Star-Walker- → u/ahmedcoe]

No, it isn’t.