Two Hollywood Giants Sue AI Image Engine Midjourney Calling It A 'Bottomless Pit Of Plagiarism'

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Two Hollywood Giants Sue AI Image Engine Midjourney Calling It A 'Bottomless Pit Of Plagiarism'
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The home of Marvel, Star Wars, and more calls generative AI theft

Disney and NBCUniversal are going after Midjourney , a generative-AI tool trained on internet data that can be used to make everything from silly memes to short films made entirely of AI slop. The two Hollywood companies filed a lawsuit against the self-funded startup in Federal Court on Tuesday “to stop its theft of their intellectual property.

“By helping itself to Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works, and then distributing images that blatantly incorporate and copy Disney’s and Universal’s famous characters — without investing a penny in their creation—Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism,” the lawsuit reads. “Piracy is piracy, and whether an infringing image or video is made with AI or another technology does not make it any less infringing.

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