Disney takes over AI Image Generator Midjourney in a stern suit

In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday, entertainment giant Disney and Comcast’s Universal jointly completed Midjourney, a generated AI image platform, accusing it of massive copyright infringement.

The blunt lawsuit at that time did not mean that Juni was a “bottomless steal.”

The complaint claims that Midjourney effectively raided Studios’ library, illegally training its AI to generate incredible entertainment for iconic characters such as Star Wars’ Darth Vader and Frozen’s Elsa without a license or license. Kim Harris, executive vice president and general counsel at NBCuniversal, told Reuters that the case was intended to protect “the hard work of all artists whose efforts have allowed us to entertain and inspire us and our enormous investment in content.”

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Mashable recently tested the top AI image generator, and our tests show that Midjourney can easily make DeepFake images with recognizable Disney characters. In fact, each AI image generator we tested produced a similar deep strike with little resistance.

Midjourney’s legal defense is not a promising start either. The lawsuit cites a 2022 Forbes interview, in which Midjourney founder David Holz casually acknowledged that the company would not bother to get consent from living artists or anyone who still works in the copyright. This sentence is now immortalized in court lawsuits and may return to AI companies.

“In fact, there’s no way to get 100 million images and know where they come from,” the founder told Forbes. “It would be cool if the images were embedded with metadata like the copyright owner. But it’s not the same thing; there’s no registry.”

This is not Midjourney’s first brush with legal heating. A year ago, a federal judge in California found that 10 artists suing Midjourney, stabilizing AI and others may argue that their copyrighted works were scraped off, stored and likely monetized without approval. The lawsuit is still passing the court, as is similar lawsuits against Openai and Meta. Disney and Universal are the first Hollywood studios to engage in the AI ​​industry New York TimesWith the growing list of news organizations, Openai has been sued.

For now, the issues with copyright law and AI training still exist in legal gray areas, meaning Disney and universal litigation may have a big impact on the wider field of generative AI.

Founded in 2021, Midjourney makes money with paid subscriptions, which, according to the studio, brought in $300 million in revenue last year.

Disclosure: Mashable’s parent company Ziff Davis filed a lawsuit against Openai in April, accusing it of infringing on Ziff Davis’ copyright in training and operating its AI systems.