According to news recently shared on X by AI enthusiast Nick St. Pierre, an incident of alleged intellectual property infringement occurred on Saturday.
It is said thatStability AI employees hacked Midjourney In response, MJ has allegedly banned all Stable Diffusion developers from accessing its services, a move that was disclosed internally to the company on Wednesday.
In the comments of Nick's tweet, David Holz, CEO of Midjourney, and Emad Mostaque, CEO of Stability AI, both appeared. The former confirmed the theft and mentioned that the team had obtained some information, while the latter denied instructing employees to steal from Midjourney and promised to assist in the investigation.
Given the friendly relationship between the two CEOs, it’s likely that their statements were genuine and not an attempt to manipulate the situation. Currently, the situation is still developing, and there is limited information about the perpetrators of the actual theft and whether Stability AI directed them to target competitors.
However, one thing is certain - Midjourney is furious about the image theft. Let’s wait and see how this conflict between AI companies progresses and whether this incident will have a lasting impact on the relationship between the two companies.