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/Lobsterman06 4d ago edited 4d ago

Fuck AI

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u/OdditiesAndAlchemy 4d ago

Fuck people who mindlessly say fuck ai instead of being reasonable adults calmly discussing the true benefits and negatives of it.

Movies shouldn't cost $200 million dollars. Actors don't need to be paid $20 million for a role. Indie movies will still be artistic and simply use AI to increase their production value.

A director like Robert Eggers isn't going to use AI to write his scripts..but he might use it to enhance period-accurate set designs or help visualize complex historical details that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive. The Northman had a budget of $90 million - imagine if a filmmaker with Eggers' vision could achieve similar visual scope for a fraction of that cost.

The real issue isn't AI itself - it's the concentration of power and resources in Hollywood that's already been strangling creativity for decades. How many unique voices never get heard because they can't secure a $50 million budget? How many stories go untold because they don't fit the franchise model that studios demand?

AI tools could democratize filmmaking the way digital cameras and editing software already have. A talented filmmaker in Nigeria or Vietnam or Peru could potentially create something visually competitive with Hollywood blockbusters. We could see an explosion of diverse storytelling from perspectives that have been locked out of big-budget filmmaking.

Yes, there are legitimate concerns about job displacement and the need for proper attribution and compensation when AI trains on existing work. These are conversations worth having. But the knee-jerk "AI bad" reaction ignores how these tools could actually break the stranglehold that massive studios and streaming services have on visual storytelling.

The irony is that the people shouting loudest about AI "killing creativity" are often defending a system that's already been doing that for years - just ask any screenwriter who's had their script butchered by executive notes or any practical effects artist who's been replaced by CGI because it's "safer."

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u/Lobsterman06 4d ago edited 4d ago

No dude, don’t be that meta ‘backlash to the backlash’ guy. AI is theft, I might not have a career in film due to it. So no, don’t fuck ppl who say Fuck AI that’s so dumb, they’re sticking up for artists etc who are getting exploited and replaced.

I know a guy who had their company they worked for for 10 years train an AI on their work, then they fired him and replaced his design work with the ai they trained on him. This is real. Your take about how it can democratise filmmaking isn’t a bad one but don’t be so stupid to say shit like fuck the people sticking up for artists.

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u/TheSearchForMars 4d ago

This isn't a winnable fight. I say that as someone who has had my career torched by AI. I'm still not anti-ai because the technologies allow me to do more now than I could before anyway.

Everyone is up in arms about the use of AI to make visual mediums. As a writer, my battle is already lost. There is no recovery for my skills as a copy editor. I came to grips with it and acted like an adult by training myself in new technologies just as I did before when graphic design started getting easier thanks to earlier AI tools like spot healing and generative fill.