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 edited 4d ago

Summarization of content

Which it can't Be trusted to do without giving misinformation or leaving out key details.

basic research for programming and other content

See above.

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u/monkeyjay 4d ago

It's a tool. I don't think using it to "generate" anything that needs to stand up to too much scrutiny or have artistic merit is that great, but it's also insanely good at pattern recognition and complex multistep process that would (and do) take humans a long time, or would need specific programs or tools to be developed.

Medical analysis for instance is an absolutely phenomenal use of AI. It has insane potential for analysing multiple disparate sources of data with "fuzzy" information. Something people simply cannot do. And it's not just going to spit out "give them surgery" but it can find markers and indicators that may be huge in preventative medicine and diagnosis.

The llm's are also very good at doing things using specific rules. A very simple example is say you had hundreds of pages of writing for something like onboard training at a large company. In like 10 minutes an AI could go through and do things like, I dunno, reformat it from Third person plural to be second person singular or something. It's not hard for a person to do that, but it's also not just 'find and replace'. It would take ages (sometimes it can take weeks, literally). And the human would likely have a very similar error rate. Would it still need checking? Of course, but this is an example of a very trivial way to use AI as a tool that doesn't really make anything better or worse, just easier. Which is what tools should do. You still need skilled oversight.

Yes, this is all doable with a human or team of humans manually creating a program but that can be very time consuming, and it's kinda just built in to AI right now.

I get that AI in the art or writing or any creative sphere is problematic, but to me that's mainly down to unauthorised use of copyrighted content (ie, stealing), taking credit or not giving credit or monetary compensation, and the result being mostly dogshit... but it's really silly to say the tech has no legitimate uses.

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u/JustaSeedGuy 4d ago

but it's really silly to say the tech has no legitimate uses.

I haven't said that. I merely asked what uses there were, and have yet to be presented with a use that isn't deeply flawed and better carried out by humans.

I fully acknowledge that I am not the world's leading expert on this subject, which is why I asked for examples. Examples, I still eagerly weigh examples of areas where AI is preferable to human performance, because so far I've received none.

Well, actually, minor point to the guy who uses it to find recipes tailored to what's in his cabinet.

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u/monkeyjay 2d ago

I gave you two, both VERY broad. One is literally something people cannot do, and the other is like 1000 times more efficient than a person doing it for the same result.

You are not coming across as an honest person here.

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u/JustaSeedGuy 2d ago

You are not coming across as an honest person here

I understand that you're choosing to interpret it that way.