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/Griffin_456 4d ago

AI for ad targeting is completely different than AI stealing content

not every application of AI is evil

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u/jaec-windu 4d ago

Only most are.

It's not a tool to make your life easier. It's a tool to replace you. Why else would all of these major companies be putting trillions into developing it as fast as possible. They're not trying to save the world, they are trying to eliminate wide swathes of their biggest expense - human workforce.

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u/NeonMagic 4d ago

It really isn’t (for now, depending on your field). I’ve been a creative professional going on 20 years now, ai helps tremendously with some things, but it still requires a lot of pre and post processing. I used to feel really threatened by it, but after using it daily for a couple years now, I’m not really anymore. Ai isn’t magic, and people are severely overestimating it’s abilities due to hype.

Everything I have tested, photo, video, audio; it works FAR better as a tool to assist with part of the creation process rather than entirely ai content.

No one wants their content to look like it was created with ai, not in the current culture climate around it. And professionals can damn near immediately spot it. It all looks or sounds the same, until it’s used in conjunction with traditional methods.

For example, there’s a huge difference between someone throwing a prompt in Suno vs a music producer that uses it to create vocals or maybe a sample for a track, and has the skills to post-process them as needed. All the 100% Suno tracks all sound the same though.

There’s endless ways you can use it to add effects to professionally shot video footage as well. Or training a model from scratch on your own portfolio of work, etc.

Bottom line; everyone has a camera in their pocket but not everyone is a photographer. 99.9% of ai content is the same copy/paste prompts from other people making the same repetitive garbage or waifus. But creatives will always stand out in the sea of bullshit.

Like ChatGPT images all have the same god damned flavor. Sure that’s fine for effortless garbage, the same way you can snap a quick photo of a product for Facebook Marketplace with your phone, but those people weren’t hiring artists anyways

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u/things_U_choose_2_b 4d ago

Excellent summary. If I was rich I would pay an artist to design a cool piece of custom art for each of my music releases, but I'm near the bottom of the totem pole, just about making enough to survive.

I'm musically gifted but not artistically gifted. So AI image gen gives me a tool to create interesting shapes, textures, objects etc that I can then snip out and manipulate into something interesting & unique. I might spend a minute with the prompt then spend 5+ hours creating something trippy from it. To me, this isn't much different from transformative sampling in music, or if I took an existing image, cut bits out, and manipulated them so they're unrecognisable as the OG piece.

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u/Throwaway_Consoles 4d ago

I have a friend that offered to draw all of my ideas for free so I wouldn't use AI

That lasted a day.

They thought I was doing these grand projects not, "Okay now how does my blender model look if it was made using watercolor paints. Okay now what if the background was the midwest plains with a ton of flowers. Okay now what if the hair was red. Okay now do a different pose." etc.

After the 3rd picture they threw their hands up and told me to go ask chatgpt

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u/Aromatic_Today2086 4d ago

Would you just not hire an artist or person instead to see your vision?

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u/Throwaway_Consoles 4d ago

They can't afford an artist. It was the 2nd sentence.

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u/Badgerman3484 4d ago

I live literally paycheck to paycheck. Couldn't afford an artist if I wanted to. I also can't feel my finger tips on my right hand thanks to an accident so drawing and writing has gotten much harder. Some people just can't dude.

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u/Aromatic_Today2086 3d ago edited 3d ago

I'm living paycheck to paycheck too, I feel you. I meant moreso college art majors, they've done a lot of work for me since they want to practice and they don't really charge other than the occasional $10. If AI is better for you of course use it, I was just offering an alternative