Disney and Universal have initiated a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney, a popular AI image generator, claiming that the platform unlawfully uses their characters to create unauthorized copies. This lawsuit is a landmark issue as it represents the first major legal action taken by Hollywood studios against generative AI technologies. The studios argue that Midjourney has ignored requests to cease its infringing activities, while Midjourney's CEO has defended the technology by comparing it to human learning processes in art creation.
‘Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism. Piracy is piracy, and whether an infringing image or video is made with AI or another technology does not make it any less infringing.’
‘Can a person look at somebody else's picture and learn from it and make a similar picture? Obviously, it's allowed for people… To the extent that AIs are learning like people, it's sort of the same thing.’
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