Midjourney announced it has banned Stability AI staff from using its services after an employee of a rival generative AI company caused an outage earlier this month while attempting to collect Midjourney data.
Midjourney posted an update to its Discord server on March 2nd, acknowledging that due to an extended server outage, generated images were no longer displayed in user galleries. In a March 6 business update call summary, Midjourney said “botnet-like activity from paid accounts” (which the company specifically associates with Stability AI employees) was behind the outage. He claimed that there was.
According to Midjourney users Nick St. Pierre of XMidjourney, who was listening in on the call, said the service went down because “someone at Stability AI was trying to get all the prompt and image pairs at midnight Saturday.” St-Pierre said Midjourney linked multiple paid accounts to individuals on the Stability AI data team.
In a summary of its March 6 business conference call (which Midjourney refers to as “office hours”), the company said it would prohibit the following: all Following the outage, Stability AI employees are unable to use its services “indefinitely.” Midjourney is also introducing a new policy that similarly prohibits company employees who perform “aggressive automation” or cause service outages.
Saint Pierre flagged the accusation Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque responded with an Referring to the Stable Diffusion 3 AI model currently in preview, he said, “Given that SD3 outperforms all other models, this team also scrapes because it uses synthetic and other data.” I’m very confused about how the two accounts work,” Mostaque said. He claimed that if there was a power outage. was If it was caused by a Stability employee, it was unintentional and “certainly not a DDoS attack.”
Midjourney founder David Holz also responded to Mostaque in the same thread, claiming he had sent him “certain information” that would help with the internal investigation.
The situation is otherwise still evolving, and no additional updates have been provided since the March 6 conversation. As of this writing, neither Midjourney nor Stability AI has responded. VergeThis is a comment request from .
