How British tech star Stability AI imploded with debt and lawsuits
How British tech star Stability AI imploded with debt and lawsuits
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/QD9v1
Man it's such a shame to see. And the recent botched release of the SD3 weights is just icing on this shitcake
Goddamn, seeing it all together like this doesn't paint Mostaque in a flattering light at all. I'm glad that we got open Stable Diffusion models out of his venture but it sounds like it was nothing more than a lucky fluke of mismanagement.
“He kind of comes off as the smartest person in the room,” said a former colleague.
Under a picture with just one person it's kinda funny. Also what's with that dirty floor? Same as with his shoes in the other picture. Gross. That's lavish?
Most of that just looks like carpet shading, where rubbing the carpet one way looks darker compared to rubbing it the other way. http://carpetswalltowall.com/shading-footprints-pooling/
However, the brown stain on the far right definitely stands out.
The floor is a carpet, and the shoes is harder to tell but might be a similar situation? Velvet maybe?
