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AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It's Already Arrived
An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition?
Like many text-to-image models, Stable Diffusion 1.5 was trained on LAION-5B, an open source dataset linked to 5.8 billion images scraped from the web, including child sexual exploitation material and copyrighted work. Cameron reportedly told a crowd at CinemaCon that he was “committed to the theater experience.” In the years that followed, none of the major studios publicly announced deals with the Screening Room, and in 2020 the company rebranded as SR Labs. Hanno Basse, Stability’s chief technology officer, is showing me an image of his backyard in Los Angeles: a grassy lawn surrounded by high hedges, rose bushes crowding a bay window, and a tree in the far left-hand corner.
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