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Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images | Midjourney pins blame for 24-hour outage on "bot-net like" activity from Stability AI employee

Midjourney pins blame for 24-hour outage on "bot-net like" activity from Stability AI employee.

Midjourney linked several paid accounts with a Stability AI data team employee trying to "grab prompt and image pairs." "Words can't describe how dehumanizing it is to see my name used 20,000+ times in MidJourney," wrote artist Jingna Zhang in a recent viral tweet. In a text message exchange with Ars Technica, Mostaque said, "We checked and there were no images scraped there, there was a bot run by a team member that was collecting prompts for a personal project though.

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