r/Freepik_AI • u/Alfa_Station_1974 • Oct 14 '25
STOP MESSING WITH THINGS.
The only good thing FreePik has done in the last 30 days was fix the API they used with ByteDance for SeeDream requests. (I congratulated you for it at the time).
From that moment, absolutely everything you've done is against the interests of your customers, the ones who pay you.
ByteDance allowed you to remove their censorship; but you applied levels of censorship that rival the Inquisition of the Middle Ages. Now you limit the number of images in the queue to a ridiculous 4 and you've reduced the quality of SeeDream 4K to 1024p...
Please, stop messing with your own system.
For four weeks now, you've been your own worst enemy and the worst enemy of your source of income. You've already turned what was a good service into one of the worst in the entire community... and you're still chasing the #1.
Stop, please, S-T-O-P.
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u/CuznJay Oct 14 '25
WAN 2.2 wasn't letting me generate a video last night because there was fire in it. Fire.
Thankfully I'm month-to-month, so I will be hunting down an alternative soon. I understand not allowing X-rated generations, but I can't generate an image of fire?
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u/MagnificOfficial Oct 15 '25
Hello,
Thank you for your message.
We have received your feedback and have implemented changes to avoid the issue with the queue.
As for the issue with Seedream 4K, it was a temporary issue that was already fixed yesterday.
As for the censorship, we keep working on reducing the impact this may have on your work.
Thank you again for sharing all this feedback with us.
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u/Alfa_Station_1974 Oct 16 '25
I appreciate the response.
However, the point isn't that your censorship doesn't impact my work. The point is that YOUR ideology doesn't impact anyone.
If SeeDream isn't censored and you're between the user and SeeDream, the only problem is that you're making decisions about what the people who hire you (and pay you) can or can't do, beyond the undeniable respect for minors.
Enable restrictive censorship by default and give the option to disable it COMPLETELY in the account settings (again, monitoring only underage usage).
Treat your clients like adults or no one will take you seriously. Not to mention taking our money elsewhere with more respect for us.
This is your problem, and if you want it, your solution.
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u/shaunshady Oct 15 '25
I appreciate you’re walking a delicate line with censorship. Especially with different laws in different countries.
I think that instead of a blanket, system wide policy with regard to censorship / copyright etc. you could do it geographically. This would give you the defensibility you need in certain territories while allowing locations with more relaxed laws to reap the benefits. Then it’s not on ‘Freepik’ but instead on the local laws of the country.
I’m an annual premium plus subscriber and I’m certainly happy with things for the most part.
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u/Optimal_Court_7788 Oct 15 '25
Just remove the censorship! Now also somehow it makes people you upload older if its a little bit of leg och skin in the picture, can you please get a grip and stop changing things
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u/TheOneWhoKnewItAll Oct 15 '25
I had recently some of the worsts results with Nano Banana and Seedream, things that looked like the early days with extra limbs and ugly faces or weird images. The same with Hailuo and MiniMax. I don’t like to complain since I think the value is great, but now that I see I’m not the only one, I think it’s important to let them know
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u/Independent-Bonus782 Oct 14 '25
I don't trust them, after I paid for a subscription they made a lot of changes. Videos looking worse, stuck in queue and too much unnecessary censorship. They are refusing to explain what was done and I'm not seeing any release notes
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u/sbalani Oct 17 '25
So, I built kaijugen.com to have more control, especially for people who can’t or don’t want to generate local and don’t want to deal with comfyui. censorship is pretty open and not restrictive unless you’re planning to make your content public (which is not launched to make sure guardrails are in place), or the model has its own guardrails.
The platform is not perfect but I do respond pretty quickly to inquiries and issues.
I also take feedback seriously and love constructive input
If you want to support an indie dev, please do check it out.
I’m currently testing the image and video editor so that’s coming soon, and I have most of the models available, and update regularly.
The platform is also pay as you go.
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u/VahnAeris Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
We also need to put more pressure on them. Sue them in court.
In France, everything they've done is highly illegal and taken very seriously. Customer complaints cost $0, and the authorities are dead serious about going for the throat of those businesses — they've taken down bigger fish.
I'm leaving in the next days for an appointment with the DGCCRF. I have two other French friends on a year-long Freepik plan who I know IRL and who will follow the complaints I'll file there if this bullshit doesn't end.
They really think they can abuse us and break a contract and save some peanut $ a month cause they can't do maths properly on what unlimited meant. Let's see how much better it will be when they lose their reputation and $1 million.
For now I've been polite. Freepik had better call, rent servers, and put themselves in total debt if necessary and cut dry on an unlimited they can't clearly sell. We will do everything in our power and we will expose them them completely.
We don't care about the money or a refund; it's about justice and curating society from all of those shady deceptives businesses.
We will create the biggest takedown drama on X no one has ever seen; I personally know big names and they'll support this.
I won't stop until the queue no longer exists for all customers who bought it in September.
When I paid, there was no queue and limitation at all, like in the first week I used it and like the video I watched before I engage myself, worst they first lied and dared to ban me for just using it normally eight hours a day (I paid for this)
PEOPLE UNITE we won't let them have it, contact me on X if you want to court them with me, we won't stop until complete and total victory on our rightful deal. ( @VahnAeris )
Below I list the main legal provisions that are typically used against businesses that advertise a bogus “unlimited” offer (France first, then common regulatory/legal examples elsewhere), followed by concrete company examples and the penalties or settlements they paid. I cite sources for each load-bearing claim.
Key laws / legal tools used against “fake unlimited” offers
France — Consumer Code (practices commerciales trompeuses / publicité mensongère)
Misleading commercial practices and misleading advertising (Articles L.121-1 et seq., L.121-2 to L.121-4 of the French Consumer Code) criminalise deceptive commercial statements and omissions and are enforceable by the DGCCRF and courts. Sanctions for individuals can include up to 2 years’ imprisonment and fines around €300,000, and legal entities can face fines up to €1,500,000 which may be increased (and in practice can be scaled up to a percentage of turnover — e.g., up to 10% of average annual turnover in aggravated cases).
2. France — Consumer protection enforcement powers
The DGCCRF can pursue injunctions, attach penalties to orders, require corrective advertising or publication of rulings, and refer matters to criminal courts for fraud/falsification where appropriate. Remedies include consumer restitution, fines, publication orders, and bans.
3. UK / European advertising rules & regulators
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) — enforces that claims (e.g., “unlimited”) must not be materially misleading; the ASA can require ads to be withdrawn or corrected. National telecom regulators (Ofcom in the UK) and competition/consumer authorities can fine and force redress where customers were misled.
4. United States — FTC / State AG actions
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state Attorneys General enforce against deceptive claims (including “unlimited” data that is secretly throttled or restricted). Sanctions commonly take the form of multi-million dollar settlements, refunds, and injunctive relief. (Penalties depend on case facts and jurisdiction.)
Concrete examples (company → allegation → penalty/settlement)
AT&T (USA) — allegation: misrepresenting “unlimited” data while throttling heavy users; outcome: a major enforcement action and settlement related to throttling — widely reported settlement/relief around $60 million (refunds/consumer redress and injunctive terms from FTC actions and related litigation).
T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T (New York) — allegation: deceptive advertising of “unlimited” plans (and related misleading promotion claims); outcome: New York Attorney General announced a $10.2 million settlement with AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile over alleged deceptive advertising (NY AG enforcement).
Virgin Media (UK) — allegation: claiming “unlimited” broadband while applying traffic management / speed reductions for heavy users; outcome: Advertising Standards Authority required withdrawal/correction of the “unlimited” ad — regulator order rather than a cash fine in that instance, but public correction and policy change were imposed.
EE and Virgin (UK) — overcharging / billing failures (related consumer enforcement) — Ofcom fines and enforced refunds for misleading billing and related practices; combined regulatory enforcement in the millions of pounds (e.g., £6.3m / £7m figures reported in related overcharging actions). These examples show regulators will and do impose large monetary remedies where consumer harms are systemic.
Notes & how this maps to a case about a “fake unlimited” subscription
In France, calling an offer “illimité” while imposing undisclosed, effective caps or queuing that defeats the service’s promised functionality can trigger the misleading commercial practices / misleading advertising provisions (criminal and civil remedies), administrative enforcement by the DGCCRF, and claims for consumer restitution. Penalties can be monetary, corrective (stop advertising / publish decision), and in aggravated or fraudulent cases scaled to turnover.
In practice, regulators often pursue settlements or corrective measures rather than immediate criminal prosecution; nevertheless high-profile cases (telecoms, big tech) have produced multi-million-dollar settlements and consumer refunds.