Several artists whose work was included in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion say they are angry that they weren’t informed, asked for consent, or paid (Rachel Metz/CNN)

James Vincent / The Verge:
Stable Diffusion 2.0 makes it harder to mimic some artists’ styles or generate NSFW output; Stability AI says NSFW images were removed from its training data  —  Users of AI image generator Stable Diffusion are angry about an update to the software that “nerfs” its ability to generate NSFW output …

Halisia Hubbard / NPR:
British artist Damien Hirst burns thousands of his paintings live on Instagram as part of an NFT project, “completing the transformation” from physical to NFTs  —  British artist Damien Hirst is among the many art-world giants who have set fire to their work, having burned 1,000 of his artworks Tuesday.

Bill Cusick / Stability.Ai:
Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 2.0, which can now generate images with default resolution of 512×512 and 768×768, and can upscale images to 2048×2048  —  It is our pleasure to announce the open-source release of Stable Diffusion Version 2.  —  The original Stable Diffusion V1 led …

Kenrick Cai / Forbes:
Sources: Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, is in talks to raise $100M; Coatue proposed a $500M valuation and Lightspeed offered a $1B valuation  —  With the image generator Stable Diffusion, you can conjure within seconds a potrait of Beyoncé as if painted by Vincent van Gogh …

Jay Alammar:
An illustrated guide showing how Stable Diffusion generates images from text using a CLIP-based text encoder, an image information creator, and an image decoder  —  AI image generation is the most recent AI capability blowing people’s minds (mine included).

Oliver Knight / CoinDesk:
An independent audit shows the Luna Foundation Guard spent $2.8B in crypto and Terraform Labs spent $613M trying to defend the UST stablecoin in May 2022  —  Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon dismissed similarities with the collapse of FTX.  —  Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) …