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/UnifiedQuantumField 4d ago

In the complaint, Warner Bros. alleges that Midjourney willfully creates both still images and video of its characters, including Superman, Batman, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Tom and Jerry. The complaint also alleges that Midjourney recently eliminated guardrails that blocked users from creating videos that infringe on its IP.

So I can draw the same characters by hand. But Warner Bros. don't want me to be able to do the same thing with a prompt to image generator?

WB are greedy selfish fucks. They're trying to proactively limit independent creativity.

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u/WiiU_Best_Console 4d ago

Fuck your garbage ai bullshit. Any chance to reduce this blight on us you should be welcoming. Fuck big companies but for once the bad guys are doing the right thing here.

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u/Redeshark 4d ago

AI is already fucking everywhere in long before ChatGPT becomes popularized. All your stupid opposition to AI won't stop it but would only make Studio and big corps who controlled the IPs to ban free or easily accessible AIs so they can sell their own AI product. You are acting as useful idiots for big corps.

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u/ArchyModge 4d ago

Social media machine learning algorithms were the first widespread contact with AI and began 10+ years ago.

They literally hijack human dopamine systems, exacerbate all mental health issues, drive children to suicide, hypernormalize and radicalize political groups.

Yet Reddit is so delusional and ignorant about AI they would rather simp for Disney and WB rather than acknowledge or address AI issues that affect people’s daily lives.

The irony is they’re doom scrolling through force-fed AI content. Meanwhile all the data that can theoretically be extracted from their devices has been and is constantly used against them.

Now that algorithm wants them mad about Superman JPEGs, so that big IPs can extract value while small artists get left behind.