Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Company Flounders

Re:Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Co... by liuliu on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:09PM (#39769367)

Yeah. It is weird. On one hand, v3 looks really good, the arch is sound, and the work is solid. On the other hand, selling Clipdrop is not a good sign (a growing startup divest is uncommon). Emad likes to talk about how they were able to retain researchers and now this, so it is hard to know what's going on.

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Re:Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Co... by xangel on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:16PM (#39769465)

The CEO being a fraud could be a possible reason. Just saying.

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Re:Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Co... by liuliu on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:18PM (#39769484)

You shouldn't judge people by what Forbes says, but what people do. So far, Emad delivers on what he promises (with some delays here and there), and Stability.ai is the only one that publish image / video generation models at production quality.

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Re:Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Co... by UberFly on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:27PM (#39769618)

Not just Forbes. Read about him on Wikipedia.

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Re:Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Co... by five_lights on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @02:45PM (#39770476)

>However, according to him, he did not attend his graduation ceremony to receive his degrees, and therefore, he does not technically possess a BA or an MA.

Oh wow, he's probably lying about his education.

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Re:Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Co... by wdb on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:15PM (#39771494)

I received them by mail. He didn't?

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Re:Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Co... by ninjasaid13 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:55PM (#39771915)

actually he recently received his BA and MA now.

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Re:Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Co... by topato on Thursday March 21, 2024 @05:10AM (#39776287)

Good. I trust people who lie about their education and exceed the expected ability of a BA, vs. the huge amounts of barely articulate and completely disinterested CS graduates entering the workforce as of late

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Re:Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Co... by zenlikethat on Saturday March 23, 2024 @01:43AM (#39797749)

I mean, you get a nose for people like that after a while. They all have common characteristics like self aggrandizement, making bold claims and then changing tune when caught, a history of burnt out and salty ex co workers. It’s not that hard to spot in this guy’s case.

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Re:Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Co... by whywhywhywhy on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:40PM (#39769768)

Did you read the article?

I saw everyone repeating this over and over but then I actually read the article and couldn't even understand what the big deal was... hard to find a founder who hasn't done all the things he was accused off none of which were really a big deal.

Felt completely overblown and honestly like a weird hit piece but where the journo didn't actually find any real dirt to smear.

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Re:Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI as Co... by UberFly on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @01:25PM (#39769566)

Certainly a shady player. Doesn't seem to be in good hands.

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