Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Orchestrating Outage to Steal Data, Stability AI Denies Allegations
• Midjourney experienced a 24-hour outage last weekend that was allegedly caused by Stability AI employees attempting to scrape Midjourney's data • Midjourney believes Stability AI orchestrated a "botnet-like activity" attack to bring down Midjourney's servers and steal prompt/image pairs • Stability AI CEO Emad denies allegations, stating if anyone on his team was involved, it was not intentional or instructed by Stability AI • Midjourney CEO David Holz claims he sent Emad information to aid in Stability AI's investigation into the incident • Midjourney has banned all Stability AI employees from using the Midjourney service in the aftermath