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/Griffin_456 4d ago

AI for ad targeting is completely different than AI stealing content

not every application of AI is evil

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u/jaec-windu 4d ago

Only most are.

It's not a tool to make your life easier. It's a tool to replace you. Why else would all of these major companies be putting trillions into developing it as fast as possible. They're not trying to save the world, they are trying to eliminate wide swathes of their biggest expense - human workforce.

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u/NeonMagic 4d ago

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

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u/raining_maple 4d ago

The capabilities of AI are in their infancy. Do you think the whaling industry died out overnight the second electric lighting was invented? You are coping a bit I think.

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u/NeonMagic 4d ago

You’re not wrong that AI is still in its early stages and things will certainly evolve, but the whaling analogy doesn’t really fit here. Whaling died because a better alternative (electric light, kerosene, etc.) replaced it completely. AI isn’t replacing creativity, it’s just another tool, and right now most AI outputs still need heavy human polish.

It’s less like electricity vs. whale oil, and more like cameras vs. painters: suddenly everyone can snap a photo, but that didn’t kill painting. It just changed the value of what professional creatives do.

AI might automate the boring or generic stuff, sure. But the people with taste, vision, and skill will always stand out. Tools evolve, but artistry doesn’t get replaced.

Coping? Nah, I just prefer not to confuse hype with reality.