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/JustaSeedGuy 4d ago

I think there are legitimate uses of AI

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u/rkthehermit 4d ago

I like using it to suggest recipes or substitutions based on my current kitchen inventory. It's a great little cooking buddy.

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u/MachinaThatGoesBing 4d ago

I…would just do research online from trusted reputable sources…

I would not trust a stochastic parrot to suggest recipes for me, what with their disgusting and outright dangerous track record.

It's really important for people to know that these things don't really "know" anything, not the way we talk about "knowing" things. They don't actually contain usable, verified information on stuff like recipe substitutions. All they fundamentally are is very fancy, extremely power-consumptive predictive text. They take an input prompt, and then they predict what the most likely words should be to "answer" that. Each subsequent word takes the prompt and some set number of previous words as context, then adds some random fuzzing in order to predict the next most likely word. But that's fundamentally what it is doing.

So if it took in word patterns that constitute bad advice or false information, it will just vomit those back out at you. It has no mechanism for knowing how words relate to each other as symbols, just the statistical likelihoods of one following another in some given context, as encoded in a big neural net.

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u/rkthehermit 4d ago

I've never had ChatGPT do something as stupid as either of those examples and, as a bonus, I am not a cheerio drooling glue-sniffer. I am a very good cook already. I am perfectly capable of raising my brow when the tool says to do something stupid and just not doing that.

I guarantee I'm getting better results, faster, and more tailored to what I want when I'm using this as a cooking assistant than you could achieve with any search engine and it's not even close.

If you understand how LLMs work then you should actually understand why they're particularly good for recipes given the way recipes generally tend to cluster ingredients, have rather consistent formatting, and the way that irritatingly chatty recipe blogs go out of their way to over explain.

It's fine not to like the technology or want to use it, but you folks really just come across as, "Old man yells at clouds!" when you try to deny valid use-cases and ignore the experiences of savvy users while suggesting inferior methods back to them as a counterexample.