Stability AI

> About

Creator of Stable Diffusion, an open-source image generation model. Despite being "open", still trained on scraped data without consent.

Website

https://stability.ai

CEO

Emad Mostaque

Founded

2020

> Founders

Emad Mostaque

> Products & Services

Stable DiffusionStable Diffusion XLStableLM

> Funding

$101M

> Layoffs

10%

Strategic cost reduction and restructuring following CEO resignation, primarily impacting operational roles

Source

> Controversies

Trained on LAION dataset containing billions of scraped images without permission.[1][2]

Controversy 1 Sources:

  1. Artists File Class-Action Lawsuit Against AI Image Generator Companies(January 2023)
  2. Stability AI Largely Wins UK Court Battle Against Getty Images Over Copyright and Trademark(November 2025)

Multiple lawsuits from artists alleging copyright infringement.[3][4][5][6]

Controversy 2 Sources:

  1. Artists File Class-Action Lawsuit Against AI Image Generator Companies(January 2023)
  2. Stability AI Largely Wins UK Court Battle Against Getty Images Over Copyright and Trademark(November 2025)
  3. Getty Drops Copyright Allegations in UK Lawsuit Against Stability AI(June 2024)
  4. Getty Images and Stability AI Face Off in British Copyright Trial(June 2024)

> Tags

image generationllmdata scrapingcontroversy