Stability AI publishes their models openly. You're allowed to download them and execute them on your own computer. And noone can take that from us. But if they cease to exist, their competition will become better and advance further into the age of AI, while we're stuck with the current models that will be old and vastly inferior to anything that will come in the next few years.

So yes, you can torrent this, I think you're also allowed to do it. But in 3 years this will be like usung a computer from the 2000s. Everyone else will have moved on to more capable tools and you're left behind. That is if nobody steps in and continues their work. Or we need to switch to DallE and use OpenAI's closed models and make do with whatever they provide us with.