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Daniel Jeffries
Personal blog · danieljeffries.substack.comaiphilosophy
Daniel Jeffries writes Future History, a personal blog at danieljeffries.substack.com about ai and philosophy. Since 2022, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The Age of Industrialized AI”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Daniel Jeffries' Substack post on why Stability.AI delayed releasing Stable Diffusion 1.5, and his account of the model 'leak' dispute, which a Stability.AI-affiliated person wrote.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The future, the past, technology and the meaning of life.
Most-linked posts?
- The Age of Industrialized AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-28
- Rise of the AI Doomsday Cult2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-04-19
- Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-21
What Hacker News says?
I think the most important part is this comment: https://danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-the-future-of-open... The people that he discredits as "leak the model in order to draw some quick press to themselves" are the researchers that are named in the Stable Diffusion paper. Yes, Stability.AI gave them lots of money. But no, they are not leaking the model, they are publishing their own work. It's university researc…
Comment linking /p/why-the-future-of-open-source-ai/comment/9884263
on “Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly”Submitted Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly as a story · 298 points
HN discussionSomeone involved with Stability.ai posted this article about the "leak": https://danieljeffries.substack.com/p/why-the-future-of-open...
Comment linking /p/why-the-future-of-open-source-ai
on “Stability.ai sent a take down request to Runway ML's SD v1.5 citing IP Leak”Submitted If We Build It, Everyone Lives as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Turning Point for Truly Open AI Is Now as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Defending Open Source AI as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rise of the AI Doomsday Cult as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Magic of Being Alive Today as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted American Decel as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rise of the AI Doomsday Cult as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let's Speed Up AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of Industrialized AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of Industrialized AI as a story · 1 points
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