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AI Model
Stable Diffusion
August 2022: image generation for everyone, weights and all.
Stable Diffusion's open release (trained on LAION's web-scraped billions) put text-to-image on consumer GPUs and spawned the fine-tune/LoRA/ControlNet ecosystem, the artist-consent backlash, and the lawsuits that still shape training-data law. SD3.5 (2024) continues the line under Stability's community license.
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