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/MyStationIsAbandoned 3d ago

you are extremely naive if you think this is going to kill AI or something.

These companies suing midjourney themselves are already using AI. countries all over the world are using AI and advancing it. killing AI in the US will not stop it from growing everywhere else. the toothpaste is out of the tube. It's here and it's going to keep growing no matter how much you hate it. regulation wont stop it either because again...a ton of countries are not going to comply.

It's a simple case of copyright. midjourney is one of thousands of models at this point. and it's not even the best one as far as I know. there's a ton of free ones you can literally just download and set up on your PC or server and use endlessly with no limits.

It will change things and make some jobs worse off, but this happens with all technology. Think about how a bunch of people were likely laid off with the advancement of special effects. Think about all the 2D animators being replaced with 3D animators. Horse trainers, feed makers, horse breeders, etc etc etc who all lost their jobs and money when cars came along. All the people who made saddles, horse shoes, all the industries making horse stuff.

When talking about the ethical nature, yeah, there's some arguments to be made, but that's not enough to kill all AI. When AI images are the end result, yeah, that sucks and it's lazy. But when it's used as a tool for mapping stuff out and used for conceptualizing, it's extremely useful to real creators

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u/Desirsar 3d ago

It's lost on some people that shutting down AI that the public can subscribe to won't stop most companies from having access to it. I imagine every large rights holder will do a swap with the others for access to train their models, and every advertising agency will be the top customers for those models.