In response to the allegations, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque denied any involvement by his company, stating that his team had not engaged in scraping activities and any outage caused was unintentional. Midjourney founder David Holz has provided information to aid in Mostaque's internal inquiry. The situation remains unresolved, with no further updates since the exchange on March 6th. Both companies have faced criticism and legal action for training their algorithms using large amounts of online data scraped without permission.
Key takeaways:
- Midjourney has banned all employees of Stability AI from accessing its services following allegations of data scraping that led to a nearly 24-hour service outage.
- The outage was attributed to 'botnet-like activity' from two accounts linked to Stability AI, which Midjourney claims were attempting to extract data from its platform.
- Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque has denied any involvement in the alleged data scraping, stating that his team relies on synthetic and other data, and any outage caused was unintentional.
- Both Midjourney and Stability AI have faced criticism and legal action for training their algorithms using large amounts of online data scraped from creators without permission.