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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Tolstoshev, 3 months ago

Everything Midjourney generates is public domain since AI can’t copyright anything. At most Midjourney can complain about the clumsy scraping taking down their site.

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owen, 3 months ago

Cowardly move…

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noorbeast, 3 months ago

one rule for me and another for thee!

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