1. Are my photos used to train AI?

Absolutely not. Model Horse Hub does not use user-uploaded images, descriptions, or custom artwork to train any Generative Artificial Intelligence models. We do not sell or share our database with third-party AI companies. Your photos and art remain your exclusive intellectual property.

2. Did you use AI to scrape other hobby websites?

No. Our reference catalog of 10,500+ models was built using traditional, standard data-gathering scripts, not AI scrapers.

3. How did you gather the reference data ethically?

We took strict measures to ensure our data collection was ethical, legal, and respectful of the hobby ecosystem:

• 📋Non-Copyrightable Facts Only: We only indexed publicly available, factual data (e.g., manufacturer names, release years, scales, and mold names). Facts cannot be copyrighted. We did not scrape original articles, artist biographies, or opinion pieces.
• 🚫Zero Photos Scraped: We explicitly excluded all images from our data gathering to protect the copyright of hobby photographers and artists. Every reference photo on MHH has been uploaded by a community member who owns that specific model.
• 🐢Server Respect (Rate-Limiting): We know that legacy hobby reference websites are often run by volunteers on tight budgets. We heavily rate-limited our scripts to run slowly, ensuring we never consumed excess bandwidth, wore down, or burdened their servers.

4. Where is AI actually used on the platform?

AI is utilized exclusively as a backend utility to save time:

• 💻Writing Code: We utilized AI coding assistants to help our human developers architect the database and write portions of the platform's code securely and efficiently.
• 📊Data Summarization (Pro Feature): Premium users receive an automated monthly email summarizing their collection's market value changes. This feature uses a secure Enterprise text-generation API purely as a calculator to turn numerical data into a readable text summary. It does not look at, scan, or analyze your photographs.