I’ve thought about how to bring this up for a while now. I want to talk about AI images. For my upcoming story (I’ll release it somewhere in the coming week), I’ve created another bunch of pictures. And although I enjoy doing this a lot, I was shocked when I received the bill… I’ve managed to make ten suitable images for the story, and the bill for doing so is… FIFTY BUCKS (Euros or Dollars don’t make too much of a difference here)!! That’s five bucks per image! I don’t mind paying for my hobbies. I really don’t. My annual costs for keeping this site up and running are about one hundred bucks, and I’m more than happy to pay for that.

But paying roughly fifty bucks per story just to add some juice to it is a lot. Too much, if I’m honest.

I’m not saying there won’t be any more pics from me. But I’m asking for your help here. If one of you guys knows any good free-ish site where I can do some NSFW stuff, please let me know! Or a site that accepts gift cards so people can donate without giving out too much personal information (this counts for both the giver and the receiver). Or if you’ve got a spare GPU lying around, I can also work with that 😊 Point is, I need to bring down the costs.

I currently use Paperspace to power on a VM. I run Ubuntu on that and install StableDiffusion and Fooocus on it. That way, I’ve got my own web-based environment, and nobody can censor my work. Unfortunately, Paperspace doesn’t have a gift card system or anything, so I can’t beg you to send me one of those. But I’m not married to Paperspace, either. If there’s another way for me to work with StableDiffusion/Fooocus, that’s also fine with me!

If you’ve got ideas to help me out in this department, so I can keep up creating images, please let me know! Send me an email (jasoncrowwriter@outlook.com), and we’ll get in touch.

Just know that I’m open to all ideas on how to keep up my image creation. For now, I’m closing down my Paperspace VM, and I’ll keep my eye on the lookout for alternatives.

Thanks for your help in advance! I hope someone will be able to help me out.

Your friendly-neighborhood story teller,
Jason

P.S. the header image is an example of a not-so-great image, but is still interesting in many ways. I mean… check out their hands…

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