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The Man behind Stable Diffusion
Yannic Kilcher interviews Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, about the company's funding, its mission, and the release of Stable Diffusion. Topics include access to compute, handling harmful outputs, and avoiding the corrupting influence of profit.
Why HN readers recommended it
Commenters cite it during Stable Diffusion release debates as a source for Mostaque's vision and Stability's principles.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Yannic Kilcher
- Topic
- stability ai and open generative models
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 7
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I really enjoyed this interview [1] with Emad Mostaque who I gather is probably the key funding and organization player in that stuff. It remains to be seen exactly how "open" it winds up playing out over time, but they're talking a compelling game and …
benreesman on Hacker News · 2022-08
In Beyond HyperanthropomorphismThe guy's name is Emad Mostaque btw There's a recent video interview he did that goes into his vision: [VIDEO]
preommr on Hacker News · 2022-09
In Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPUStable 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 …
xor99 on Hacker News · 2022-09
In Can't believe Stable Diffusion is out for public use and that's considered “OK”
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