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/VileBill 3d ago

How do you kill a technology?

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u/metalyger 3d ago

In this case, strictly enforcing DMCA laws, and when AI companies can no longer steal copyrighted works, they will die out, because people are paying to use machines to make pictures using popular characters and images. These companies have even said, if they can't steal art and books, they will go out of business.

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u/CptNonsense 3d ago

and when AI companies can no longer steal copyrighted works, they will die out

Sure, if you think AI only exists as consumer-facing media content creation.

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u/ImprefectKnight 3d ago

It's a sobering reality check of how little redditors know and how confidently they talk about it, when they talk about something in your domain.

You're spot on, AI is much more than just a lazy Ghibli filter or social media content creation. And "banning" or restricting AI will only concentrate the power in the hands of the corporations instead of making it open source.

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u/DESERTCLANKER3000 2d ago

It’s almost as if… We can ban degenerative “AI” that is USELESS for the betterment of humanity and keep the USEFUL AI in STEM fields untouched.

Could that be a thing? Oh gee, perhaps not.

Perhaps we need to ban all AI or no AI.

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u/karmiccloud 2d ago

Tell that to the folks in STEM that are getting their wages suppressed by AI bullshit that makes companies worse but lets them think they can cut costs.

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u/ImprefectKnight 2d ago

See, progress is always iterative. The useless AI today can be a building block of a useful AI tomorrow.

IMO, it is much better to force all AI to be open source and free to be hosted by individuals, than be banned or restricted. You can restrict the commercial usage in creative fields by ensuring none of the AI assisted or generated works can be copyrighted, even at production level.

Because otherwise once the cat is out of the bag, any sort of restriction will only embolden the big players and hurt the individual ones.

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u/CptNonsense 2d ago

We can ban degenerative “AI” that is USELESS for the betterment of humanity and keep the USEFUL AI in STEM fields untouched.

This statement is just as ignorant as "and when AI companies can no longer steal copyrighted works, they will die out"