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The Man behind Stable Diffusion

Yannic Kilcher

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Yannic Kilcher interviews Emad Mostaque about the funding, open-source philosophy, and future vision behind Stability AI and Stable Diffusion.

#stablediffusion #ai #stabilityai An interview with Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI. OUTLINE: - Intro - What is Stability AI? - Where does the money come from? - Is this the CERN of AI? - Who gets access to the resources? - What is Stable Diffusion? - What if your model produces bad outputs? - Do you employ people? - Can you prevent the corruption of profit? - How can people find you? - Final thoughts, let's destroy PowerPoint Links: Homepage: ykilcher.com Merch: ykilcher.com/merch YouTube: youtube.com/c/yannickilcher Twitter: twitter.com/ykilcher Discord: ykilcher.com/discord LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ykilcher If you want to support me, the best thing to do is to share out the content :) If you want to support me financially (completely optional and voluntary, but a lot of people have asked for this): SubscribeStar: subscribestar.com/yannickilcher Patreon: patreon.com/yannickilcher Bitcoin (BTC): bc1q49lsw3q325tr58ygf8sudx2dqfguclvngvy2cq Ethereum (ETH): 0x7ad3513E3B8f66799f507Aa7874b1B0eBC7F85e2 Litecoin (LTC): LQW2TRyKYetVC8WjFkhpPhtpbDM4Vw7r9m Monero (XMR): 4ACL8AGrEo5hAir8A9CeVrW8pEauWvnp1WnSDZxW7tziCDLhZAGsgzhRQABDnFy8yuM9fWJDviJPHKRjV4FWt19CJZN9D4n

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3 people recommend this, 2 dispute it

What people say. Recommended for understanding the early open-source philosophy and motivations behind the release of Stable Diffusion.

benreesmanon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Beyond Hyperanthropomorphism”

…s a bit on the reality of training these things: it's a difficult, error/failure-prone process, there's a lot of trial-and-error, restarting from checkpoints, etc. Anything that puts downward pressure on the magical thinking is A-OK in my book. The reality of this stuff is exciting/impressive enough: there's no need to embellish or exaggerate. 1 link to this video 2 link 3 link…
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preommron Hacker News • Recommends

On “Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU”

The guy's name is Emad Mostaque btw There's a recent video interview he did that goes into his vision: link to this video
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xor99on Hacker News • Recommends

On “Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out for public use and that's considered “OK””

Stable diffusion is good open source software and is well motivated in a very complicated technology/political space. Sure they inherit all of the existing problems with image datasets but they have some plans to mitigate racial and socio-political bias. The alternative is to either not do the project or make it secretive under the supposed motivation of safety. This interview is a good overview of the principles behind their approach: link to this video
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O__________Oon Hacker News • Disputes

On “Stable Diffusion Public Release”

…ly, check the nsfw_content_detected flag like so: Potential NSFW content was detected in one or more images. Try again with a different prompt and/or seed." — That’s disappointing and appears conflict my understanding of Stability.AI’s founder claim that limits like these would not be injected into the code; this based on an interview he did here: link to this video If I am correct, makes me question all the other claims he made, which is unfortunate. ___ Edit — Here is a direct link to point in the interview I was referring to above: link to this video…
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p3opl3son Hacker News • Disputes

On “Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly”

Y/ou can't comment unless you pay to subscribe.. lol - isn't that a company blog post? Anyways.. this shit grinds me.. yet another "open source" AI proejct pretending to be fo rthe people.. finally get a massive valuation and now it's all "we must be security concious".. Hypocrtyes and here is an interview with the founder of Stable Diffusion stating the exact opposite approach by "having faith in people"! link to this video
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O__________Oon Hacker News • Mentions

On “I recreated famous album covers with DALL-E”

Yep, here’s interview with the founder of Stable AI, which includes their intent to release Stable Diffusion and be more open than OpenAI: link to this video
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bfungon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The company behind Stable Diffusion appears to be at risk of going under”

Interview 7mo ago w/CEO of StabilityAI. link to this video Not too surprised about funding issues from the casual answer. I’m not saying it was bad to self fund a project, but having to choosing between your life and fun (and potentially very profitable) projects is not easy.
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