Death threats greeted image-gen tip sharers from Stable Diffusion's launch day
gandamu_ml · x · 2026-10-07
- gandamuml recalls that from the initial Stable Diffusion release, people sharing image generation tips received death threats.
- He argues the community foresaw the disruption, but the conversation was immediately and irreversibly broken, so the larger point about technological unemployment never got through.
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