Midjourney has indefinitely banned all Stability AI employees from using its text-to-image service after accusing them of aggressively scraping data and causing a major outage. Midjourney claims botnet-like activity from paid accounts linked to Stability AI staff overwhelmed its servers while attempting to grab all prompt and image pairs. The company is enacting a policy to ban any firm’s employees engaging in aggressive automation that leads to outages. Stability AI’s CEO denied the allegations, but Midjourney’s founder claims to have provided evidence. The unresolved dispute highlights rising tensions over training data practices in the generative AI industry.
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