“someone at Stability AI was trying to grab all the prompt and image pairs in the middle of a night on Saturday.”
Midjourney blames a near 24-hour outage on two paid accounts tied to a Stability AI data team member. Its answer is to ban every Stability employee indefinitely. Both companies face copyright suits for training on artists’ work scraped without consent. Midjourney discovered scraping is theft the moment someone scraped Midjourney.