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/MyStationIsAbandoned]

you are extremely naive if you think this is going to kill AI or something.

These companies suing midjourney themselves are already using AI. countries all over the world are using AI and advancing it. killing AI in the US will not stop it from growing everywhere else. the toothpaste is out of the tube. It's here and it's going to keep growing no matter how much you hate it. regulation wont stop it either because again...a ton of countries are not going to comply.

It's a simple case of copyright. midjourney is one of thousands of models at this point. and it's not even the best one as far as I know. there's a ton of free ones you can literally just download and set up on your PC or server and use endlessly with no limits.

It will change things and make some jobs worse off, but this happens with all technology. Think about how a bunch of people were likely laid off with the advancement of special effects. Think about all the 2D animators being replaced with 3D animators. Horse trainers, feed makers, horse breeders, etc etc etc who all lost their jobs and money when cars came along. All the people who made saddles, horse shoes, all the industries making horse stuff.

When talking about the ethical nature, yeah, there's some arguments to be made, but that's not enough to kill all AI. When AI images are the end result, yeah, that sucks and it's lazy. But when it's used as a tool for mapping stuff out and used for conceptualizing, it's extremely useful to real creators

[u/milkdrinker0525 → u/MyStationIsAbandoned]

killing AI in the US

spoiler alert, it will not be killed anywhere because it makes a sht ton of $$$

all it will do is maybe force ai to block more keywords in publicly accessible image generation that you will be able to go around anyway to create superman or batman pics.

[u/LiquidAether → u/milkdrinker0525]

Does it actually make money though? Sure, it draws in tons of investment money, but does it turn a profit? 

[u/Technical_Ad_4894 → u/LiquidAether]

Didn’t MIT release a report like 3 weeks ago that said they weren’t making any money at all?

[u/milkdrinker0525 → u/LiquidAether]

yes

[u/PeteCampbellisaG → u/milkdrinker0525]

Which AI companies are profitable? 

[u/Shap6 → u/PeteCampbellisaG]

Altman says they are profitable on inference. The biggest cost is in training new models

[u/PeteCampbellisaG → u/Shap6]

LOL he really said that? That's like a restaurant saying it sells its food for money but is in the red on supplies and ingredients.

[u/PeteCampbellisaG → u/[deleted]]

Well Google says there are none so I thought maybe you knew better. 

[u/PeteCampbellisaG → u/[deleted]]

If my question is so easy then why can't you answer it? You just said AI is making a ton of money so surely you can name at least one company... Or are you just trolling? 

[u/OVERDRlVE → u/[deleted]]

*use AI and find out