Stability AI
Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
Incident 42112 Report
Stable Diffusion Allegedly Used Artists' Works without Permission for AI Training
2022-11-20
Text-to-image model Stable Diffusion was reportedly using artists' original works without permission for its AI training.
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Stable Diffusion's Training Data Contained Copyrighted Images
2022-10-16
Stability AI reportedly scraped copyrighted images by Getty Images to be used as training data for Stable Diffusion model.
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Stable Diffusion Exhibited Biases for Prompts Featuring Professions
2022-08-22
Stable Diffusion reportedly posed risks of bias and stereotyping along gender and cultural lines for prompts containing descriptors and professions.
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Stable Diffusion Abused by 4chan Users to Deepfake Celebrity Porn
2022-08-17
Stable Diffusion, an open-source image generation model by Stability AI, was reportedly leaked on 4chan prior to its release date, and was used by its users to generate pornographic deepfakes of celebrities.
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Incident 3141 Report
Stable Diffusion Abused by 4chan Users to Deepfake Celebrity Porn
2022-08-17
Stable Diffusion, an open-source image generation model by Stability AI, was reportedly leaked on 4chan prior to its release date, and was used by its users to generate pornographic deepfakes of celebrities.
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Incident 4235 Report
Lensa AI's Produced Unintended Sexually Explicit or Suggestive "Magic Avatars" for Women
2022-11-22
Lensa AI's "Magic Avatars" were reportedly generating sexually explicit and sexualized features disproportionately for women and Asian women despite not submitting any sexual content.
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AI-Produced Livestream Sitcom Received Temporary Twitch Ban for Transphobic Segment
2023-02-06
The AI-produced, procedural generated sitcom broadcasted as a Twitch livestream "Nothing, Forever" received a temporary ban for featuring a transphobic and homophobic dialogue segment intended as comedy.
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Holmen, Wisconsin Man Allegedly Used Stable Diffusion to Create and Then Share Sexually Explicit Images Depicting Minors
2024-03-26
The FBI has arrested Steven Anderegg of Holmen, Wisconsin for having allegedly used Stable Diffusion to generate about 13,000 sexually explicit images of minors, which he then is also alleged to have shared and distributed, including with at least one minor, via Telegram and Instagram. Anderegg was originally apprehended by state police in March, and this case marks one of the first times the FBI has brought charges against someone for having used AI to generate CSAM.
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