Midjourney Bans Stability AI After Scraping Spat Causes Outage
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Midjourney banned all Stability AI employees for "botnet-like" scraping activity that caused a 24-hour outage.
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Midjourney sees irony since it scraped training data without permission, yet doesn't want its own data scraped.
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A Stability employee was scraping Midjourney prompts and images for a personal project. Stability claims it doesn't need Midjourney data.
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Stability CEO says the scraping wasn't intentional and wants to directly discuss with Midjourney.
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The Stability CEO previously provided funding to help launch Midjourney, though now there's some rivalry.