Sorry if I sounded too cynical. I am looking forward to seeing what this company does! But I do think that taking serious investment money is almost guaranteed to affect their priorities. Just look at OpenAI. It was all "save humanity this" and "working for a better future that" but now that they're backed by Microsoft their ideals seem to be a bit less lofty. And let's not forget Google's long lost "don't be evil" motto.

Now IANAL so I don't know if Stability AI has some kind of clever charter document that prevents the their long term goals from being undermined even if the board of directors changes their mind...but I'd be pretty surprised if they did. Honestly it doesn't bode well for The Control Problem when you consider that we can't even prevent corporations, made entirely of human employees, from turning evil eventually.