Haha, I kind of get that reaction. Convincing the world "this was hard to do" is generally not easy. Re: user uploads, we're operating in good faith at the moment (no built-in IP moderation). This hasn't been an issue so far. Current pricing reflects our operating costs. Each end-user gets a dedicated GPU for the duration of a call, which is expensive. Advancements on the model-side should eventually allow us to parallelize this.
Have your early versions made any sort of profit?
Absolutely amazing stuff to me. A teenager I very briefly showed it to was nonplussed - 'it's a talking head, isn't that really easy to do' ...