Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data scraping

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In a summary of a business update call on March 6th, Midjourney claimed that “botnet-like activity from paid accounts” — which the company specifically links to Stability AI employees — was behind the outage.

In its summary of the business update call on March 6th (which Midjourney refers to as “office hours”), the company says it’s banning all Stability AI employees from using its service “indefinitely” in response to the outage.

Midjourney is also introducing a new policy that will similarly ban employees of any company that exercises “aggressive automation” or causes outages to the service.

Midjourney founder David Holz responded to Mostaque in the same thread, claiming to have sent him “some information” to help with his internal investigation.

It does seem odd that scraping activity from just two accounts allegedly managed to cause such an extended server outage.

Stable Diffusion and Midjourney have both been targeted with several copyright lawsuits, with the latter being accused of creating an artist database for training purposes in December.

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Man, it must suck to put so much heart and soul into creating something that you care about and then have some jerks use bots to scrape it for data to train their AI algorithm without your permission!
- The problem was someone was scraping the gallery website fast enough to cause a mild DoS attack.
  
  Sure, but what I said was funnier!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a summary of a business update call on March 6th, Midjourney claimed that “botnet-like activity from paid accounts” — which the company specifically links to Stability AI employees — was behind the outage.
In its summary of the business update call on March 6th (which Midjourney refers to as “office hours”), the company says it’s banning all Stability AI employees from using its service “indefinitely” in response to the outage.
Midjourney is also introducing a new policy that will similarly ban employees of any company that exercises “aggressive automation” or causes outages to the service.
Midjourney founder David Holz responded to Mostaque in the same thread, claiming to have sent him “some information” to help with his internal investigation.
It does seem odd that scraping activity from just two accounts allegedly managed to cause such an extended server outage.
Stable Diffusion and Midjourney have both been targeted with several copyright lawsuits, with the latter being accused of creating an artist database for training purposes in December.
The original article contains 461 words, the summary contains 167 words. Saved 64%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
So bots are botting bots. Inception lvl 100
- If I plug "Midjourney" as a term into the next Stable Diffusion model, I want Midjourney-style output.