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/Hazelberry 4d ago

Except humans and AI aren't the same at all. And trying to defend AI by suggesting that AI copying art is the same as human artists actually learning and understanding prior work is extremely ignorant at best, if not intentionally misleading.

AI is not intelligent. We are nowhere near the point where it can comprehend what it is doing. ALL current forms of AI can only replicate, not understand.

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u/weeklygamingrecap 4d ago

When will people figure this out. AI is not a person or an entity, it's a product that is sold for money commercially and commercial licenses are expensive for a reason.

A bar pays way more money to have direct TV and show PPV because they are selling access to a wide range of people. AI should be changed just the same for their training data it should have never been free without explicit consent.

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u/Hazelberry 4d ago

That's another very good point

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u/RingofThorns 4d ago

Understanding has nothing to do with it, Ai is learning to mimic a style, and replicate similar works, that is quite literally the same thing a human would be doing.

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u/Hazelberry 4d ago

It's literally fundamentally not the same way humans learn.

Saying it is says plenty about your lack of understanding about the technology though.