Link to the Midjourney office hour tweet where this accusation was reported by '@AlieJules.

https://twitter.com/aliejules/status/1765485264091128033

MJ outage last Saturday

• outage started in the middle of the night
• somebody was trying to grab all prompts image pairs (this was not a beginner project)
• it took down MJ servers for a long time
• it was linked to an email account from Stability AI
• all Stability AI employees are being banned
• -- Don't do automation on MJ servers and take down the servers!!

Emad replied on Twitter, denying the allegations, or at least denying that this was authorized by the company:

https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1765495422561206507

Very confusing how 2 accounts would do this team also hasn't been scraping as we have been using synthetic & other data given SD3 outperforms all other models

Anyway I am a big MJ & David fan which is why I backed them at the start with the grant to pay for the beta, on e we go

If anyone did do this on team (have asked, will dig, also happy if MJ reaches out direct) its not great but obviously not a DDoS attack but unintentional.

Certainly not instructed by us/Stability AI tho, really happy with our dataset & the augmentations we have on that.

To this tweet, Midjourney founder David Holz replied

https://twitter.com/DavidSHolz/status/1765506365764550868

sent you some information to help with your internal investigation

Anyways, I am personally curious on how this will play out (and also bemused). Obviously, neither Stability or Midjourney has any particular high ground when it comes to data scraping as a practice, but (allegedly) accidentally DoSing your occasional business partners & legal co-defendants is certainly an (alleged) breach of decorum.