Disney and Universal sued prominent artificial intelligence startups for copyright infringement on Wednesday, delaying Hollywood's fierce battle over generative AI
The film company sued Midjourney, an AI image generator with tens of millions of registered users. The 110-page lawsuit alleges that Midi Joanie trains “numbers” copyrighted works to train “countless” copyrighted works.
“Midjourney is a typical copyright freerider and a bottomless hole in plagiarism,” the company said in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
Midjourney could not be immediately contacted for comment.
AI startups like Midjourney, introduced in 2022, often train their software with data scraped from the Internet and elsewhere without compensating creators. This practice has led to lawsuits from authors, artists, record labels, news organizations and more. (The New York Times sued OpenEy and its partner Microsoft for copyright infringement. Openai and Microsoft denied those claims, saying their actions constituted “fair use.”)
However, Disney and Universal were the first major Hollywood studios to file a copyright infringement lawsuit.
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