The model was initially released in August 22, 2022, and everything from the GitHub organization that hosted the code, to the actual licenses being around and all the communication made it very clear that there was a bunch of groups involved with the model; Runway, CompVis, and Stability AI<p>Then Stability AI raised money from investors in October 2022.<p>Are you really telling me these investors didn't even do any sort of due diligence (not even "barely any" but literally any at all), didn't realized that Stable Diffusion was the work of many, and checked the license of the model and code?<p>That's a bit far fetched, to be honest.<p>Supposedly, this "leaked pitch deck" is supposed to show us that they lied to investors, but where is the pitch deck itself? Seemingly, only one of the slides is in the article, how could anyone reach any sort of conclusion based on just one slide?<p>Edit: The article seems to be some sort of clickbait trash that is so rampant around the web... One selected part:<p>> The Stable Diffusion code was released by researchers at LMU Munich in April 2022.<p>Links to <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10752" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10752</a> which is the Version 2 of the paper, indeed released in April 2022. However, that paper is about, and links to <a href="https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion">https://github.com/CompVis/latent-diffusion</a> which is not Stable Diffusion, it's Latent Diffusion. Stable Diffusion was released in August 2022, and is at <a href="https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion">https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion</a>