The AI Founder Taking Credit For Stable Diffusion’s Success Has A History Of Exaggeration
Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and some misleading claims from founder Emad Mostaque.
Hasnain says:
Finally made my way through this, and oof. One quick takeaway was definitely around how the memes poking fun at crypto bros who've now become AI bros means AI has hit it mainstream and uh...
"These aren’t the only misleading stories Mostaque, 40, has told to maneuver himself to the forefront of what some are calling the greatest technological sea change since the internet — despite having no formal experience in the field of artificial intelligence. Interviews with 13 current and former employees and more than two dozen investors, collaborators and former colleagues, as well as pitch decks and internal documents, suggest his recent success has been bolstered by exaggeration and dubious claims."
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"Following a string of abandoned startups (including a crypto project centered on a digitized Quran), Mostaque founded Stability in 2019 as an AI-powered data hub that global agencies would use to make decisions about Covid-19. "
Posted on 2023-07-07T04:11:58+0000