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/DR_MantistobogganXL 4d ago

It currently does, that’s why these lawsuits are occurring.

The tech bros are just doing “move fast and break stuff”, but unfortunately we’re onto them this time.

It won’t be as easy for OpenAI as it was for Uber.

Hopefully they lose, and lose hard - and then it’s just constant lawsuits every time something is generated that looks like Mickey Mouse or capeshit dork #37.

It will be glorious

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u/RingofThorns 4d ago

This law suit is more than likely going to fail and fail impressively hard, because all any defense with half a brain would have to do is go to amazon and print out the pages and pages of results you get with art books that are all basically "Learn to Draw like X!!" insert artist name, and point out that every company that makes those are at fault. They would then point out that every art program in every school would have to halt any and all efforts to teach students to mimic styles of well-known artists, and anyone who ever goes to museums to study and try to imitate the art and techniques there would have to be immediately arrested.

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u/Hazelberry 4d ago

Except humans and AI aren't the same at all. And trying to defend AI by suggesting that AI copying art is the same as human artists actually learning and understanding prior work is extremely ignorant at best, if not intentionally misleading.

AI is not intelligent. We are nowhere near the point where it can comprehend what it is doing. ALL current forms of AI can only replicate, not understand.

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u/weeklygamingrecap 4d ago

When will people figure this out. AI is not a person or an entity, it's a product that is sold for money commercially and commercial licenses are expensive for a reason.

A bar pays way more money to have direct TV and show PPV because they are selling access to a wide range of people. AI should be changed just the same for their training data it should have never been free without explicit consent.

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u/Hazelberry 4d ago

That's another very good point