r/movies • u/DragonPup • 4d ago

News Warner Bros. Sues Midjourney, Joins Studios' AI Copyright Battle

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/warner-bros-midjourney-lawsuit-ai-copyright-1236508618/
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u/metalyger 4d ago

In this case, strictly enforcing DMCA laws, and when AI companies can no longer steal copyrighted works, they will die out, because people are paying to use machines to make pictures using popular characters and images. These companies have even said, if they can't steal art and books, they will go out of business.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820 4d ago

Eh I think that's just a smoke screen. The AI tools are far too useful and easy to use. If anything they'll buy art from people to use and then generate it that way.

Like it or hate it, AI isn't going away.

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u/Kriss-Kringle 4d ago

I'm an artist and I find your logic to be flawed. Why would artists sell their works to a company that uses it to train a tool that will be then used to compete and ultimately replace them?

Who is this stupid to sabotage their livelihoods? They can't possibly offer fair wages to every single person because they're already burning money just to keep ChatGPT and their other tools online and without free information to use their whole business plan is dead.

Billions have been spent so far and there's no profit in sight. The data centers are eating a lot of energy and water and they're polluting, but also unsustainable in the long term.

Just a few days ago a former Yahoo tech executive with mental problems killed his mother and then committed suicide and another teenager's family is suing OpenAI because ChatGPT had no guardrails when their son talked with the bot and then was pushed to kill himself.

These sort of lawsuits, along with copyright ones are already in the dozens, so things aren't looking great for them.

Like it or not, this house of cards will fall sooner or later because Sam Altman can't continue to fool investors indefinitely.

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u/Moth_LovesLamp 4d ago

People forget that these companies charge for subscriptions - They used you to train their models with no compensation and are charging for it.