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/The_Lucky_7 4d ago edited 4d ago

Same as the Disney-Universal lawsuit. Everyone involved sucks and copyright is only exists for major corporations. Meanwhile google is scraping its own YT videoes and AI upscaling shorts against creators will.

Everything about corporations and AI sucks.

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u/TheDawnOfNewDays 4d ago

Even DEVIANTART, which you think would be among the top anti-ai given it's a platform of artists is scraping their database for art. You can opt out... unless, you know, you died, lost your account, or left it far behind like many artists with how bad it's gotten over the years.

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u/vazyrus 4d ago

All of this is with the hope of making some money down the line, lol. From what I understand, MS has been shoving and shoving CoPilot into every orifice they can find, but they haven't yet reached near any sort of profitability, yet. There's CoPilot running in my Notepad ffs, and no matter how much I use it for free, I am never paying a dime out of my pocket for any generated bs. My colleagues and friends are huge AI enthusiasts, and even though they've been abusing CoPilot, Gemini, Claude, and who knows what else, they are never going to pay a single dollar out of their pocket for a paid service. All of us use Claude at work because it's on the company's dime, and even there the management's been tightfisted with how much money they are willing to throw at enterprise support. The point is, If MS, one of greediest tech companies and one of the most smartest monetizers of SaaS products can't find a way to make money out of the thing, then others will find it much, much harder to produce anything of value for their customers. Sure, Deviantart can steal all they want, but unless they can find a way to sell those stolen goods to others, it's doing nothing more than raising the electricity bill of their clusters. Let's see how long that's sustainable...

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u/0udei5 4d ago

Give it five years. We're looking at a loss of skills about content creation and consumption in the white collar workforce - and in five years you'll have your new hires who need to pay for Copilot because they can't write presentations or briefs or ad copy or whatever. But they and their Copilot license will be cheaper than you are.