"We’ve heard from regulators and the general public that we need to focus more strongly on security to ensure that we’re taking all the steps possible to make sure people don't use Stable Diffusion for illegal purposes or hurting people."
"What we do need to do is listen to society as a whole, listen to regulators, listen to the community."
"So when Stability AI says we have to slow down just a little it's because if we don't deal with very reasonable feedback from society and our own communities then there is a chance open source AI simply won't exist and nobody will be able to release powerful models."
Looks like someone is leaning on them :(