Disney and Universal Studios have filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Midjourney, alleging copyright violations of their intellectual property.
The movie studios claim Midjourney, a popular subscriber-based interface that generates AI images from text prompts, has trained its AI models on their intellectual property and creates images featuring their famous characters.
For example, according to the lawsuit, if a Midjourney subscriber submits a simple text prompt requesting an image of the character Darth Vader in a particular setting or doing a particular action, Midjourney generates a high-quality, downloadable image featuring Disney’s copyrighted Darth Vader character.
IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Why was Midjourney sued and not OpenAI?
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Maybe because they want to use it to replace animators? That’s my guess anyway. Granted, just a guess.
IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yes, this is a possible way to eliminate OpenAI’s rivals and make AI solely in the hands of corporations. It would only benefit in the short term, but be detrimental in the long term.
Another option is that OpenAI has more power and support from large companies, so such a trial would consume more resources and time than what could happen with Midjourney.