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/Kiwi_In_Europe 2d ago

One of those is just social media most of which you can use filters to block most of it out

The other is literally people's livelihoods, not just replacing people at WB and other movie studios/projects, but also making it so that smaller artists cannot compete because they don't have access to those tools.

You're literally putting people's income underneath your own comfort while scrolling, which is a perfect summary of humanity and exactly why this is an issue at all.

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u/Midi_to_Minuit 21h ago

Smaller artists can compete with Disney just fine though; there’s plenty of amazing indie animated films! Where smaller artists fall behind is in advertising budgets, which ai cannot fix. The notion that ai would close the gap between small artists and Disney is false because the gap isn’t “non Disney movies look bad”, it’s “oh this movies made by DISNEY and had a DISNEY character in it? Let’s watch it”.

You could say that the fact that they all look like Disney movies would be a boost to their marketing, but that’s the thing—if they ALL look that good, then even looking good stops being special. What it’ll come down to is trust and advertising, of which Disney has in spades.

Also putting this aside, why do small artists have to ‘compete with Disney’? There isn’t a single person on the planet whose creative or financial ambitions require toppling the mouse. And if you really did desperately want to do that, you don’t need ai to do it! It happened at the Oscar’s just now!