Midjourney Bans Stability AI Employees, Blames Them for March Systems Outage
• Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees, accusing them of causing a systems outage by scraping Midjourney's data • Outage occurred March 2nd and prevented images from appearing in Midjourney galleries • Midjourney links outage to "botnet-like activity" from paid accounts tied to Stability AI employee • Midjourney introducing policy to ban employees of any company causing outages or "aggressive automation" • Stability AI CEO investigating situation, claims outage unintended and employees haven't been scraping data