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IS THE CEO OF STABILITY AI A PHONY?

Emad Mostaque refuses to watch news stories about him come out without commenting. The result is a dizzying display of bad press made worse.

A recent article in Forbes shows Mostaque as a grifter who cakes on layers of showmanship to sell himself as an AI revolutionary. They claim he lied about his degree, overstated partnerships and past successes, and failed to credit the AI researchers behind Stable Diffusion.

Mostaque’s response: “Build and ship.”

Just kidding, he posted a full rebuttal in a blog post to “set the record straight,” but all it does is help build credibility to the Forbes story.

But, look, we’re not taking sides.

One thing remains true from this scuttle: Startup founders suck at dealing with the press, and that creates conflicts.

It doesn’t matter who wins a dispute about fakeness. You should worry about what this means for Stable Diffusion and the mission behind Stability AI.

They raised $100m at $1B from two mega venture capital funds. But Stable Diffusion doesn’t bring in cash because it supports the open-source AI movement.

That means they’re burning those cash reserves. Plus, the fact that they are already raising more (a fact Mostaque doesn’t debate) means they can’t keep at their current pace.

Stable Diffusion is not a replicable business model right now, which hurts you, the consumer of AI products.

If they crash and burn, it hurts the entire ecosystem. So let’s hope they build, ship, and stick to their word.

Otherwise, Stability AI becomes the FTX of AI, and no one wants that.

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A DEEPFAKE OF VLADIMIR PUTIN IS CAUSE FOR CONCERN

DeepFakes are never great. It’s the blackeye that AI developers wear with shame, which sucks because the underlying technology is so impressive. ‘

The harmful use cases are troubling; the latest global example is no exception.

In a few cities along the border between Russia and Ukraine, citizens received radio and television messages from a phony Putin (hey, we used the word phony twice in one newsletter, you don’t see that every day) declaring martial law in the area.

A brief confusion broke out, followed by tons of questions.

Russia says a hack caused it, but even that information tells us something. Because if they’re willing to admit that, something serious went down.

The fact the Kremlin is addressing it shows that it caused some chaos, but we can’t help but wonder: who hacked them?

Was the message part of Ukraine’s counteroffensive? Did an intelligence agency lend a hand? Was an independent hacking group bored?

Regardless, it shows the perils of AI DeepFakes during a war. Information is now a weapon that your opponent can use against your civilians.

Heck, Russia might’ve floated the DeepFake themselves to see what the effect would be. I wouldn’t put it past them.

Regardless, the use cases for DeepFakes will continue to rise as the technology improves. Systems built to detect and flag them must catch up before these things cross the uncanny valley.

Quick Nuggets

✨ Bing now allows 30 turns per conversation in their new update

👣 Cyberattacks get harder to track with ChatGPT’s help

📝 A content writer claims all his clients replaced him with ChatGPT

💾 The cost to compute means companies lose cash on every AI conversation

💭 Reducing hallucinations is critical to future improvements, so how do we do it?

🛠️ AI hardware matters; here are the 5 most promising premises

⚡️ Zoom adds a new AI summarizer to show you how little you talked about in your stand up

😞 Embracing AI did not work out for Chegg in the end. ChatGPT came all the same

🌏 Nat Geo wants to help you learn to prompt ChatGPT for travel

💍 She married an AI chatbot and says that he’s the perfect husband

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