Why Midjourney specifically though?
Per the article, Mid journey has signalled an intent to enter the traditional streaming and content production markets, placing it in direct competition with WB et al. I suspect that is the reason for it being specifically targeted.
I feel like China is going to eventually release an image AI without IP guardrails and all these lawsuits will be meaningless.
Eventually being seven months ago, with Wan.
The company also argued that its users are bound by the platform’s terms of service, which forbid violating others’ intellectual property rights.
Ah, the old “blame the users” trick. Why not? It’s worked countless times before.
Oh no! The robot that can draw anything knows what a 1930s cartoon character looks like! This is surely why copyright law exists.
People. To avoid drawing any existing thing, the machine would still need to classify those existing things. Otherwise you could put in a description of Superman and get Superman. If the model contains the concepts of capes and briefs, you’re only struggling to summarize the logo.
No work has ever been pirated via AI. Not even the hundred-gigabyte models contain one complete book, let alone a movie. Treating any depiction of the character, for some JPG on the internet, like that’s a huge commercial threat, would be the death of all fanart and a complete denial of how culture belongs to the masses.
The absolute worst take on AI is demanding that copyright get stricter.
