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…
They can and do issue takedowns for drawings all the time, but yes, they are more lenient when people create them
I remember there used to be images to trick t-shirt bots, in a bid to get the companies behind them sued by disney.