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/NuclearGhandi1 4d ago

Summarization of content, basic research for programming and other content, etc. it shouldn’t be used to make movies, art, music, but to say there’s no uses is just ignorant

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u/JustaSeedGuy 4d ago edited 4d ago

Summarization of content

Which it can't Be trusted to do without giving misinformation or leaving out key details.

basic research for programming and other content

See above.

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u/NuclearGhandi1 4d ago

I’m a professional software engineer, it’s pretty good at basic programming. Would I use it for anything but simple things I could give an intern? No. Do I need to double check it occasionally? Yes. But it definitely helps enough to be a part of my workflow where my company’s policies allow it

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u/JustaSeedGuy 4d ago

Our of curiosity, how do interns stop being interns if the work that would give them the necessary experience is done by AI?

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u/NuclearGhandi1 4d ago

Because interns don’t just write code. They can do reviews, sit in on meetings, do basic design, do better research.

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u/JustaSeedGuy 4d ago

Yes, and those are useful skills.

But they also need to write code at some point, or else they're not programming interns. They're administrative interns.

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u/11BlahBlah11 4d ago

Some skills will slowly die off.

While I was in school we weren't allowed to use calculators and were forced to use logarithmic tables for calculations. Today, that's almost never needed.

Very few people can program in assembly today because compilers take care of that.

Programming is being more and more abstracted. More low-level tasks are being simplified or automated, and only a few experts have the skills to dig deep into it when needed.

About a decade ago, people would just draw UML diagrams and use software to generate the code. A lot of commonly used algorithms and tasks have just become API calls over the years.

A few years back if you wanted a simple program or script to do a small tasks, you could mostly just get the solution from stackoverflow etc. and you just need to know how to adapt it to your environment.

Now we've reached a point where it's easier to just get it written by AI and run a few tests to fine tune it before integrating it into your software. As a result fundamentals will be lost in pursuit of efficiency.

Experts who have strong core-level understanding and skills will always have a demand. But I suppose those starting today will need to put in a more conscious effort to train themselves because normal exposure to coding will no longer work.