So 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?
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Yeah 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.
Maybe they just shut down to prevent further scraping and didn't communicate that well.
Odd. 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