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Terminator’s Cameron joins AI company behind controversial image generator
Famed sci-fi director joins board of embattled Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion.
Stability is best known for its pioneering but highly controversial Stable Diffusion series of AI image-synthesis models, first launched in 2022, which can generate images based on text descriptions. In a 2023 interview with CTV news, Cameron referenced The Terminator's release year when asked about AI's dangers: "I warned you guys in 1984, and you didn’t listen," he said. This came on the heels of the departure of three key engineers—Robin Rombach, Andreas Blattmann, and Dominik Lorenz, who have since founded Black Forest Labs and released a new open-weights image-synthesis model called Flux, which has begun to take over the r/StableDiffusion community on Reddit.
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