Disney, Universal sue AI firm Midjourney
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So Hollywood is finally making a move to try to protect intellectual property from generative AI. Disney and Universal have together filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, the company behind one of the most popular AI image generators, over rip offs of characters and art styles from the likes of The Simpsons and Star Wars.
Disney and Universal sued AI image-generator Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement. They gave side-by-side comparisons as examples.
Those were the two reactions — seemingly opposite, actually harmonious — to the news that Disney and Universal had finally bitten the bullet Wednesday and sued an AI company, the startup image-generator Midjourney. And then became uncomfortable when ...