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How British tech star Stability AI imploded with debt and lawsuits

Unpaid bills, key talent leaving — the fall of Emad Mostaque’s billion-dollar company is a cautionary tale of AI mania

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Man it's such a shame to see. And the recent botched release of the SD3 weights is just icing on this shitcake

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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.

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“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?

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- 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.
  
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- The floor is a carpet, and the shoes is harder to tell but might be a similar situation? Velvet maybe?
  
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