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| AI art war Midjourney bans Stability AI in data scraping scandal AI art outfit Midjourney has banned the boffins at Stability AI from using its service amidst accusations of data thievery that caused a system-wide blackout. According to the Verge the virtual vendetta kicked off with a mysterious outage on 2 March, leaving a gallery of generative images in the dark. Midjourney's sleuths pointed fingers at "botnet-like activity" from none other than Stability AI's employees, sparking an online uproar. Nick St. Pierre, a Midjourney user spilt the beans on the behind-the-scenes skulduggery to Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque, who replied on X. Allegedly, a Stability AI staffer was caught red-handed, trying to swipe a treasure trove of prompt and image pairs under the cover of night. https://fudzilla.com/news/58612-ai-art-war |