The open source release of Stable Diffusion, still one of the most impressive image generators out there, was the beginning of the end for the closed access model that had dominated the AI world until then. It arrived when the image generator Dall E 2 was still limited to a handful of people who had been vetted by OpenAI , and offered an alternative proposal: powerful image creation to anyone who wanted it. That prompted the next tipping point: the launch of ChatGPT , the Ford Model T of AI. It...
