'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.'

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/in-ironic-twist-midjourney-bans-rival-ai-firm-employees-for-scraping-its-image-data/

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.

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@astro_jcm Where is the AI artist ? 😅
@thornax Probably much further down the line, super proud of having typed "draw a cat" and seeing a drawing of a cat or something, dunno :D
@astro_jcm Do what I say, not what I do. Ironically funny and sad at the same time.