Midjourney claims the alleged activity caused a 24-hour service outage.
    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
      6·
      8 months ago

      It’s not that they were scraping the data, it’s that they basically created a ddos attack with how they were scraping the data.

      It’s still on midjourney for not putting protections in place to prevent it, though.

      • turkishdelight@lemmy.ml
        3·
        8 months ago

        it’s that they basically created a ddos attack with how they were scraping the data.

        This is trivial to mitigate with a common-sense throttling. You throttle at a level that would not bother a human, but would still block a bot. Almost all websites like Instagram do this.

        • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
          2·
          8 months ago

          Yeah, that’s why it’s ultimately on Midjourney for not protecting against that.

          My point was just that the title is misleading and this isn’t a case of them banning a dev account just for scraping. It’s pretty standard to ban accounts that exhibit bot-like behavior, so this really isn’t even news.

    • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      8 months ago

      Someone was scraped Midjourney’s gallery website fast enough to cause a mild DoS attack. So they’re kind of mad about that. They don’t seem to have a lot of overhead. They can barely run all of their services from what I understand.

  • turkishdelight@lemmy.ml
    5·
    8 months ago

    I wonder how much copyrighted work there is in Midjourney :) Would they be willing to submit their datasets for an audit?

  • Godric@lemmy.world
    3·
    8 months ago

    Fun fact: Midjourney bans prompts depicting genocidal dictator Xi Jinping, but no other world leaders.