Yesterday, Disney and Universal Studios (which is owned by NBCUniversal) sued the generative AI company Midjourney in U.S. district court in Los Angeles. The 143-page filing alleges that the AI image generator was trained on countless works created by these Hollywood studios, and now “functions a…
This is the thing… Adding insult to injury, the outcome of this is going to be (if it plays in Disney’s favor) a paid model in which generating characters resembling Disney’s will cost extra. So they will steal and profit