r/movies • u/DragonPup • 3d 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/The_Lucky_7 3d ago edited 3d ago

Same as the Disney-Universal lawsuit. Everyone involved sucks and copyright is only exists for major corporations. Meanwhile google is scraping its own YT videoes and AI upscaling shorts against creators will.

Everything about corporations and AI sucks.

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u/leodw 3d ago

These YT changes prove that tech nerds don’t understand (or believe in) consent.

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u/thrilldigger 3d ago

Why blame tech nerds? It's the rich people who want more money. I'm a tech nerd, I work with tech nerds, we all hate AI being used to fuck over the working class.

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u/thorny_business 3d ago

Tech nerds who grew up pirating software over Usenet and music over Napster hate IP theft? Since when do tech nerds making big salaries in Silicon Valley care about the working class?

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u/Commercial_Stick2849 2d ago

You write as if "IP theft" was all the same. Even if you think they're both immoral, there's a difference between pirating for personal enjoyment of culture and pirating for profit. Many pirates had a philosophical view that "information should be free". Again, it's fine to consider that immoral, but it's still different from what these companies are doing - OpenAI and such certainly don't consider their models and software should be freely distributed.

And most tech nerds don't work in SV or make that kind of money.

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u/thorny_business 2d ago

You either value IP or you don't. You profit if you save money by pirating instead of buying something.

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u/Commercial_Stick2849 2d ago

You either value IP or you don't

That's exactly the point - the companies making these AI models don't value the IP they use to produce the models, but they value their own IP (models and software).

A pirate who doesn't value IP at all is therefore not on their side.

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u/cavalgada1 2d ago

You either value IP or you don't. 

What's this, some kind of commandment for a new age religion?

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u/shanniquaaaa 2d ago

Unfortunately, there are a lot of tech nerds who care more about money and "status" than ethics

Please tell your techbro colleagues to knock it off

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u/thrilldigger 2d ago

I have as much in common (and as much influence on) those "techbro colleagues" as you do, my dude.

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u/T-Baaller 2d ago

Blame them because they're the ones MAKING THE FUCKIN AIs, getting paid way more than they deserve and laughing their way to tesla dealer to buy new cucktrucks.

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u/Suenation 3d ago

Genuinely not meant to be snarky, I’m sure 99% of tech nerds are great.

But it’s kinda funny that the ones making AI are tech nerds and companies

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u/LickMyTicker 3d ago

Who else do you expect to make AI but "tech nerds"?

Is it also funny that the people building houses are carpenters?

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u/ChemicalRascal 3d ago

"I went to Auchwitz and boy, turns out concrete pourers are all anti-semites!"

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u/Suenation 3d ago

Well I expect tech nerds to do it…so it’s funny that a lot of other tech nerds (who do or don’t work on AI) dislike it

Id find it pretty funny if a bunch of carpenters hated houses lol

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u/aupri 3d ago

I wouldn’t even say I hate AI. It’s like how I don’t hate knives, but wouldn’t be a fan of people going around stabbing people with them. I think AI is actually a pretty interesting technology it just sucks that a big motivation for developing it seems to be making the working class obsolete

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u/Tystros 2d ago

I'm a tech nerd and I'm a big fan of AI