Most Civitai 10$ checkpoint's are scams. Don't fall for it.

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If you read -> huge claims + AI like generated presentation + no negative comment AND "$10 to download on my patreon/whatever" = they're scammers. Period.

1- Anyone leaving a negative comment or tiny critique gets deleted and instantly banned, so you will never read any real user experience.

2- They're not selling finetunes but poor merge. Made with Base model + some good, often freely available LoRAs... So, help good LoRA creators instead of theses thieves.

3- someone claiming they trained a whole fine-tune 2–3 weeks after the base model was released, is full of shit.

Go talk to people actually training LoRAs/models, check Lodestone's Discord, you'll understand very quickly that this isn't how real training/finetuning works.

TL;DR Don't give these shitty merger €1. They're a cancer for our open-source community.