• 0 Posts
  • 8 Comments
Joined 7 months ago
cake
Cake day: February 27th, 2024

help-circle

  • Emad has a history of lying his ass off and grifting. I wouldn’t trust a word out of his mouth. He basically stole the StabilityAI company from the original creator by convincing him it had little value, meanwhile he was courting investors to buy StabilityAI by exaggerating the capabilities that didn’t exist.

    He also used company funds to pay for his luxury apartment in London, and then tried to claim it was a accident and he would pay it back after he was caught.

    He directed StabilityAI employees to take over control of the Stable Diffusion sub reddit and kicked the creator and main mod, who was a Dutch teenager.

    There are too many alleged and confirmed incidents of his dishonest behavior to list them all here, but the most telling for me was when SD1.5 way released without StabilityAI’s knowledge by RunwayML, who actually developed Stable Diffusion and thought they were working in an open partnership with Stability.

    There’s so much more drama surrounding Emad than what’s in this Wikipedia article, but it hits some of the major issues. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Mostaque

    (Source: the Stable Diffusion discord server from August 2021 to now, most of which has since been scrubbed)



  • Aphelion@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldA lot.
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    6 months ago

    These ships aren’t running a little electric prop that you can just route power to: it’s a massive diesel engine that needs to be capable of outputting thousands of pounds of torque constantly. It’s also a ship, in water, dealing with tides, currents and wind. There is no turning it or altering course without main engine power to move the ship relative to the water to make the rudder effective. Some large ships have steering screws that they can use to slip the ship sideways, but they are meant for minor corrections and maneuvers in calm water and have limited uses.