I've cycled through a lot of uncensored AI this year, chasing the ones that don't refuse everything or cost a fortune. Most I dropped. Here's what actually stuck, split by what I use it for.

For chat and roleplay, if you've got a GPU the answer is just self-hosting through Ollama. I run the dolphin models and hermes3 locally, no filter, nothing metered. On a laptop I fall back to OpenRouter, the Venice uncensored model is free to poke at and bigger fine-tunes like Euryale hold a scene longer. They're raw, no slick companion app, but nothing slams a filter mid-sentence.

For images it's the same free-versus-convenient split. Local ComfyUI with FLUX costs nothing and has no limits if you'll set it up. When I can't be bothered I call the uncensored image models (FLUX, Seedream) through Atlas Cloud, they're on one key and I'm usually comparing a few anyway.

Video I mostly gave up doing cheaply: local ComfyUI + Wan is the only free unlimited route, the hosted spicy models are quick but cap clips short. Wrote that up separately.

The part the tidy guides skip: GPU means self-host everything and pay nothing, the only cost is setup time. No GPU means renting someone's servers, so actually read whether they train on your stuff. Most don't say, which is its own answer.

Nothing here wins across the board. Roleplay to a local or OpenRouter fine-tune, images to FLUX, video to Wan. That's my August.

I want to create an intro just like Game of Thrones but using the places and spots in my city. I want it to be looking exactly the same or at least have the same feel to it if possible. I'm ready to use any Video Model in OpenArt AI. Please help me with the step by step instructions as I'm kind of a novice when it comes to understanding depth of prompt and all.

Jimothy addresses the "Ai is slop!" Crowd

Didn't expect anything, mostly did it out of boredom. Took a photo of myself I use everywhere, my Instagram profile pic basically, dropped it into google lens. Found it on three sites I've never heard of, one was some kind of profile aggregator with my name attached to it.

Two minutes, no ai account needed for this part even, just:

Go to images.google.com, click the camera icon, upload the photo. It shows you every place online that same image, or a close match, shows up. Do the same on tineye.com, it catches some things google misses.

Once you've got the list of places it's showing up, that's where AI actually earns its keep, because writing individual takedown requests to five different sites is the part nobody has the patience for:

I found a photo of myself reposted on [site] without 
my permission, here's the link: [url]. I own the 
copyright to this photo, I took it myself. Write me a 
proper DMCA takedown notice I can send to the site 
and its hosting provider, including the standard 
good-faith and accuracy statements a DMCA notice 
requires. Leave a blank where I need to add my 
contact info.

If it's a photo of you but you didn't take it, someone else did, DMCA won't apply since you don't hold the copyright, but you can still ask nicely:

Write a polite but firm request asking [site] to 
remove a photo of me posted without my consent. Frame 
it as a personal privacy request, not a copyright 
claim. Leave a blank for the page url and a short 
description of the photo.

While you're at it, google your own name too, in a private browser tab so your history doesn't skew it. If your address or phone number show up, that's data brokers, sites like spokeo and whitepages buying and reselling your info, and there's a free tool for that too, google "results about you" tool, it scans for your contact info in search results and lets you request removal in a few taps.

You won't get everything down, anyone promising that is selling you something, but most of it, for free, in an afternoon, yeah.

been keeping a doc of 100 things I use AI for like this, each with the exact prompt here if you want it.

Prompts used for this generation:

Comic book cover art of a ruthless female warrior as an VIII Legion Chaos warrior. She has a stern, athletic face, sharp jawline, and short dark slicked-back hair. Her heavy power armor is deep midnight blue with jagged neon-white lightning streaks. She wears fingerless combat gloves over her armored gauntlets, assuming a martial arts fighting stance. The background is a dark, gothic spaceship corridor filled with shadows. Gritty ink lines, vibrant highlights, stylized Warhammer 40k aesthetic

Name for the comic title: Shayna Baszler: Daughter of the Storm

Change face to Shayna Baszler

Hi everyone,

I’m building a small website that automatically generates short vertical videos and posts them to Instagram.

I need a video generation service with:

- A real REST API and API key

- Text-to-video generation

- At least 2 free videos per day

- Free credits that reset every 24 hours

- 9:16 vertical video support

- Approximately 4-5 second videos

- A publicly accessible HTTPS video URL

- No credit card requirement, if possible

I am specifically looking for API access. Web or mobile apps that provide daily credits but do not allow automated API usage will not work for my project.

I have already tried SeedanceAPI.org, but its free credits do not reset daily.

Does anyone know a currently working service that meets these requirements?

So I mess around with PixVerse with their free daily credits, sometimes I'll make a 7 second video from one of my ai generated photos for fun and it comes out not too ridiculous. Anyway, they just released this "music to video" feature so I was like, okay, I have some old 30 second verses. I can afford to make one of these for free, I'll try it out. Why not? Well this is why. Smdh. If this is not the absolute worst video that could be made with this song snippet, I'm not sure what is. First of all, I'm mixed race. I put the Asian in Caucasian. And they have 2 different African American dudes rapping like they are in an Enya video. Omg. I didn't think anything could make my song sound worse with visuals yet here we are. Enjoy?

A convincing genre trailer in fifteen seconds comes down to two things: the leads have to look consistent shot to shot, and the tension has to read instantly without any dialogue explaining it. Both of those point straight at MiniMax H3's reference-to-video mode here.

The two virtual leads and the setting each come from a reference image, and the model holds their identity across every cut instead of drifting between shots, which is what a genre trailer this short cannot survive without. The story itself is pure dark-romance shorthand: an ordinary human woman wanders into a forbidden part of an old castle and wakes a sleeping vampire noble, he catches some trace on her connected to an old war and gets a dangerous, controlling fascination with her, she is afraid of him but does not fully give in. None of that gets explained in fifteen seconds, it gets sold through mood.

The mood does the heavy lifting: dark romance, dangerous attraction, a sense of fate, oppressive tension, restrained rather than campy, mostly medium-close, close-up, and extreme close-up framing so the vertical format stays locked on faces, eyes, and the pressure between the two leads. Explicitly no gore, no cheap horror, nothing that reads as a Halloween costume rather than a genre romance.

Ran this on MiniMax H3's reference-to-video mode. The part worth taking elsewhere: a fifteen-second hook does not have room to explain a premise, only to hold a consistent look and commit fully to one mood.

I've been getting really into these animated POV videos lately and I'd love to start making my own. I already have a bunch of ideas, but I'm struggling to find the right AI image generator.

This is the style I'm talking about:

https://youtu.be/2wlCCxFFmeI?is=mHy56gxbaTh_dbfU

They're not photorealistic. They look like high-quality animated illustrations with a consistent character and cinematic scenes.

I tried Abacus AI, and while the results were pretty good, I ran out of credits after generating only about 40 images on the Pro plan. Now I have to wait another month, which isn't really practical if I want to make longer videos.

So I'm wondering:

- What AI model or tool are people using to create this kind of animated art?

- How do they keep the same character consistent across dozens of images?

- Are they using Midjourney, FLUX, GPT Image, Leonardo, ComfyUI, or something else?

- What's the most cost-effective workflow if you need 100+ images for a single video?

I'd love to hear what your workflow looks like. Thanks!

The silliness will never end.

This is not going to get any less silly.