What changes when you run the model yourself
Running published weights removes the plan question and adds three others: which conditions the licence attaches, whether anybody is watching them, and who answers for what the model produces. As of 2026-09-12.
| With a subscription | With published weights |
|---|---|
| A plan decides the permission | A licence file decides it |
| The supplier sees your usage | Nobody sees it but you |
| Support and escalation exist | Neither, and warranties are disclaimed |
| Terms change when the supplier says | Conditions change with a model release |
Inclusion rule. Differences that change how a rights position is maintained rather than what it permits. Order. From what decides the permission to what happens when it changes.
1The permission usually gets simpler and the monitoring does not
A named permissive licence answers the commercial-use question in three words. A community licence answers it with conditions measured in the licensee's own accounts or analytics, which nobody at the publisher can see.
That delegation is the real change. A subscription tells you when you have crossed a line by charging you; a threshold in a licence file tells nobody anything.
2Obligations that look like formalities
Preserving notices and licence text is a condition where an output disclaimer is conditioned on compliance. A pipeline that ships without them has not lost anything and has stopped satisfying the sentence it relies on.
For video that usually means one line in a credits file or a repository note, which is the kind of task that only happens when it is in a checklist.
3Responsibility arrives with the permission
There is no supplier to escalate to when something in the output turns out to be somebody else's, and no moderation layer catching material before it leaves. Several licences say so explicitly.
Which is not an argument against self-hosting. It is the reason a self-hosted row belongs in the same register as a subscription, and the reason its cells record a mechanism rather than a price.
4Where the vendor statements are kept
The mechanics above apply to anyone. What a given vendor has committed to in writing is held on the register instead, each line with the plan page it came from and the date it was checked.
An explainer, not an entry in the register. Vendor statements are held, with their sources, on commercial use, and nothing on this page is legal advice. Related: Consent paperwork, Labels and disclosure.
5What the output is for
Alongside the terms behind “Running weights”, SceneMixer's guides describe the work itself this way:
The script is written from the photos and the one-line description. In step-by-step mode you can rewrite it before anything is shot.
SceneMixer, How to Make an Ad from One Photo — “Do I need a script?” (read 2026-10-13)
On a segment’s card, Insert adds a blank segment right after it: write its header and shots.
SceneMixer, Inserting and Deleting Segments (read 2026-10-13)