Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque is investigating the allegations, stating that his team hasn't been scraping data and suggesting that if an outage was caused by a Stability employee, it was unintentional. Midjourney founder David Holz has provided information to assist with Mostaque's internal investigation. Both companies, along with the broader generative AI industry, have faced criticism for training their models on large amounts of online data scraped without consent, leading to several copyright lawsuits.
Key takeaways:
- Midjourney has banned Stability AI employees from using its service, accusing them of causing a systems outage by attempting to scrape Midjourney's data.
- The alleged incident occurred in the middle of the night on a Saturday and was linked to multiple paid accounts associated with an individual on the Stability AI data team.
- Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque has denied ordering the actions in question and suggested that if an outage was caused by a Stability employee, it was unintentional.
- Midjourney is also introducing a policy to ban employees of any company that uses "aggressive automation" or causes service outages.