@misc{stablediffusionpublicrelease2022,
  title = {Stable Diffusion public release (open weights, Aug 2022)},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Stability AI},
  url = {https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-public-release},
  abstract = {The public release of Stable Diffusion on 22 August 2022 by Stability AI made a capable text-to-image model freely available as open weights for the first time, runnable on consumer-grade GPU hardware. This was a distinct access event from the latent diffusion architecture paper that preceded it: the release is what made open generative image production practically achievable outside industry labs. It directly enabled the downstream open ecosystem of interfaces, fine-tuning methods, and community platforms, and determined which generative AI tools became available in educational settings.},
  keywords = {generative-ai, image-generation, ai-literacy},
  note = {AI \& Animation Education Knowledge Base}
}