Stable Diffusion

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5 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Mar 9, 2023 by Guy Parsons · said 57 times in 18 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Mar 9, 2023 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Parsons: Stable Diffusion used 12M fine-tuning images for aesthetic quality
“Stable diffusion, I think some five billion and then like a smaller set of like twelve million for the what does nice look like fine tuning that's happened on the top and how they've optimized it.”
Guy Parsons Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 19:25 Unlocking Creativity with Prompt Engineering
Feb 17, 2024
Assertion Supported
Rombach: Stable Diffusion's core technique was developed during university research
“It's based on a technique that we developed while we were still at the university.”
Robin Rombach Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 3:23 Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
Feb 17, 2024 positive
What-if
Blattman: AI image progress depended on open-sourcing Stable Diffusion
“Open sourcing, like a foundation model as stable diffusion initially, that led to a whole lot of research on these models, which was, yeah, it was in, in retrospect, extremely important to do this. I think otherwise we wouldn't have seen the improvements we sa…”
Andreas Blattman Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 9:26 Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
Feb 17, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Rombach: Pre-trained video models learn 3D synthesis faster than image models
“We showed that it's actually like helpful to incorporate like this implicit three D knowledge that Knowledge that is captured in all of the videos into the model, and then the model can learn much quicker than if you start from the pure image model.”
Robin Rombach Feb 17, 2024 ▶ 23:07 Text to Video: The Next Leap in AI Generation
Apr 7, 2026 positive
Insight
Balaji Srinivasan: New AI models displace older AI models rather than humans
“Another one is AI doesn't take your job, AI takes the job of the previous AI. Claude took ChatGPT's job, right? Just like Midjourney, you know, took took Dali's job, took Stable Diffusion's job.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 7, 2026 ▶ 43:46 Why Balaji Srinivasan Thinks the SaaS Apocalypse Is Overhyped | The a16z Show
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