The AI Founder Taking Credit For Stable Diffusion’s Success Has A History Of Exaggeration | Forbes

Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and — per interviews with more than 30 people — some misleading claims from founder Emad Mostaque.

In this video, reporter Kenrick Cai shares how a Forbes investigation was able to dive into these claims to separate fact from fiction, and how the company and Mostaque responded afterwards.

0:00 Who is Emad Mostaque?
1:50 Fact checking process raises questions
2:24 What degree does Mostaque have from Oxford University?
3:15 Employee payroll problems
4:44 Did Stability take more credit than it should have for its AI model?
6:14 What big partnerships did Stability really have?
8:28 Stability and Mostaque's responses to Forbes reporting
9:59 What the Stability story says about this moment in AI

Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/k....enrickcai/2023/06/04

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