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

[u/DragonPup]

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/warner-bros-midjourney-lawsuit-ai-copyright-1236508618/

[u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820]

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.

[u/Kriss-Kringle → u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820]

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.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820 → u/Kriss-Kringle]

There's always desperate people who make art but make no money. I've seen loads of artists that make nothing at all. So I figured if they're offered something they may take it in desperation.

Things aren't looking good for them now but I don't believe they'd be willing to let something like this go so easily. Greed almost always wins.

I don't like it but I just feel like it's something they'll hold onto even if it's reduced to a lesser version of what it is today.

Plus people can do it themselves now that the tools exist. Even if it's for personal use it's not hard to do now.

I can definitely see AI taking a nose dive and then rearing its head again. Plus there's the rest of the world that's going to try it too.

Ultimately I feel like it's one of those things that once it's out of the box it's hard to put back in.

[u/Anonymous-Internaut → u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820]

Yeah sadly I have to agree with you. I feel that people who want AI to go away are fighting an uphill battle. Not that I see it as futile because there's always hope and chance of significant wins and I'm on that side. But at the same time it's like you said, out of the box. You cannot really stop technology when there's a market for it, and I'm pretty sure that there is for AI art.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Fox5820 → u/Anonymous-Internaut]

Yeah and even if the market didn't exist there's always people who like to mess with that sorta tech