Midjourney runs a diffusion model that you can ask to generate pictures. Disney and Universal and several other movie studios have sued because Midjourney keeps spitting out their copyrighted chara…
I expect they think they can get a precedent here.
That’s true - the case is pretty clear-cut thanks to how much damning evidence they’ve managed to pull out. The old trend of using AI to make offensive shit in the Pixar style likely helped as well, but that’s speculation on my end.
Midjourney is also odd in that it didn’t take money from outside investors and it’s actually profitable selling monthly subscriptions. This is an AI company that is not a venture capital money bonfire, it’s an actual business.
I suspect Disney isn’t out to just shut Midjourney down. Disney’s goal is to gouge Midjourney for a settlement and a license.
In practice, I doubt Disney’s gonna get to shake much out of Midjourney before they end up going under - given that gen-AI is built to facilitate plagiarism and copyright infringement, a win for Disney here would lead to a de facto ban on generative AI.
That’s true - the case is pretty clear-cut thanks to how much damning evidence they’ve managed to pull out. The old trend of using AI to make offensive shit in the Pixar style likely helped as well, but that’s speculation on my end.
In practice, I doubt Disney’s gonna get to shake much out of Midjourney before they end up going under - given that gen-AI is built to facilitate plagiarism and copyright infringement, a win for Disney here would lead to a de facto ban on generative AI.
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