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Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data scraping
- visarga 3y ago[flagged]
- jrflowers 3y agoIt is good to see mid journey take a meaningful stance against web scraping
- dvt 3y agoNot sure if this is sarcastic, but quite literally every single piece of art that Midjourney, DALL-E, etc. have been trained on was scraped without the copyright owner's consent. If anything, it's the epitome of hypocrisy.
- onedognight 3y agoYour parent was clearly being sarcastic. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
- baq 3y agoWatching Adobe come out of this shitshow victorious: priceless.
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- hamoodhabibi 3y agoThe year is 2024: companies that used scraping to build its products are now trying to legislate scraping as an illegal act
- bamboozled 3y agoBut the training data isn't important!
- 0xEF 3y agoNow I'm curious how many tech companies actively used questionable practices to build their foundation, then lobbied to make those practices illegal to mitigate competition. I've a feeling this is so common that they don't even see the irony in it anymore.
- salawat 3y agoAll of them. Building a value moat and rolling up the ladder 101.
- baq 3y agoIrony is something made out of metal in the VC money fueled world of make it useful then make it expensive.
- dotnet00 3y agoThat's what FTX was attempting to do with regard to cryptocurrency
- sidewndr46 3y agoIf only they could have stolen billions instead, it would have been so much simpler
- RheingoldRiver 3y agoI read The PayPal Wars and it was wild to me how the author goes back and forth between complaining about how much regulation sucks and talking about how great it was that could take advantage of regulation in their fight about eBay.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago"Lyft joins Uber in fight for stronger taxi regulations" Waiting for The Onion to write it. Or the NY Times; both are just as likely.
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- WhatsName 3y agoIs this legal, seems anticompetitive to me? It feels a lot like tool companies requiring you to sign a contract not to build tools with it.
- rmbyrro 3y agoQuite ironic for calling illegal to do what the entire business is founded upon. And if it's a paid account (not multiple bot-created free accounts), they should have some rate limiting in place. That smeels like bad API architecture. Like basics architecture.
- artninja1988 3y agoSo they're complaining about scraping taking down MJ. I don't understand the allegations... if they're scraping things from Discord that wouldn't bring down MidJourney. The only way you'd bring down MJ would be to... use their service too much? Am I missing something?
- ShamelessC 3y agoYeah the claims made are highly suspicious and come across as paranoid to me. If they’re saying the Midjourney discord server is being scraped - well yeah, even if it’s against your ToS, it’s so trivial to do as long as you’re invited to that server that they should just assume their competitors will and not rely on that as a competitive advantage. And I guess that’s what it ultimately feels like - they don’t have a competitive advantage operating in the open so they’d rather whine about it than get to work making stuff.
- tripplyons 3y agoMaybe they just shut down to prevent further scraping and didn't communicate that well.
- artninja1988 3y agoOdd. There are a ton of of MJ datasets they seem fine with. I have a hard time believing the irony of banning scraping would be lost on them, unless it really took down their backend somehow. Oh well
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