Stable Diffusion Authors Resign as Stability AI Faces Lawsuits and Financial Struggles
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Key Stable Diffusion researchers Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Dominik Lorenz have resigned from Stability AI.
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Stability AI has struggled financially after raising $100M in 2022, with high spending and executive departures.
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The researchers were authors on the original Stable Diffusion paper before Stability AI hired them.
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Rival Midjourney banned Stability employees over "aggressive automation" scraping prompts.
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Stability AI faces lawsuits over claims it scraped art and photos without permission to train models.