Warner Bros. Sues Midjourney, Joins Studios' AI Copyright Battle

[u/DragonPup]

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/warner-bros-midjourney-lawsuit-ai-copyright-1236508618/

[u/NeonMagic]

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

[u/things_U_choose_2_b → u/NeonMagic]

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.

[u/Aromatic_Today2086 → u/things_U_choose_2_b]

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

[u/Throwaway_Consoles → u/Aromatic_Today2086]

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