All this is PR talk after few dramas with immoral activities.
They got 100mil USD in founding and I feel like pressure squeeze them hard as they are trying to monetise models, but how you monetise open source models when someone can just fine-tune your weights and make better/faster/cleaner model and software without losing 10mil+ on training original.
You are always few mil behind rivals and after past few weeks which was PR nightmare they lost most of the "community driven" advantage.
I fell like they are extremely desperate for attention (drama was artificially created cause it clicks conspiracy) or they are just so chaotic and lack proper leaders that everything is burin.
Can you provide any context on the "past weeks" drama? Haven't been following this space closely so I don't know what happened. Honestly surprised about this turn because I used to follow Emad on twitter and he was always strongly for open models.
There are local WebUIs. Someone named AUTOMATIC1111 has a popular one. They added in a "leaked" model. Stability.ai, banned AUTO from their discord and accused him of "stealing/promoting piracy". Community enflamed. They then apologized and let him back in.
Stability.ai took over the /r/stablediffusion subreddit. Community enflamed. They then turned the subreddit back over to the community
Stability.ai delayed 1.5 model. And now sent this justification. Community enflamed.
They got 100mil USD in founding and I feel like pressure squeeze them hard as they are trying to monetise models, but how you monetise open source models when someone can just fine-tune your weights and make better/faster/cleaner model and software without losing 10mil+ on training original.
You are always few mil behind rivals and after past few weeks which was PR nightmare they lost most of the "community driven" advantage.
I fell like they are extremely desperate for attention (drama was artificially created cause it clicks conspiracy) or they are just so chaotic and lack proper leaders that everything is burin.