Disney and NBC Universal on Wednesday filed a federal civil copyright complaint against Midjourney AI, accusing the service of stealing their intellectual property by allowing users to crank out fast-generated images of Darth Vader, Spider-man, the Minions, and so on, Axios reports.
Now on one hand maybe there’s an argument that writing prompts to an AI to get it to crank out an image of the Millennium Falcon isn’t all that different from using Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator to manually draw that image. On the other, the fact that Midjourney charges $10 a month for a standard subscription means that in theory it’s a selling point that in can crank out the Millennium Falcon, therefore they’re profiting off intellectual property stolen from Disney/Lucasfilm.
You know what also used to be a selling point? Midjourney would crank out pics of real life political figures, and make some really funny stuff, though it could be unwieldy at times.
Until they stopped allowing any political stuff last year. Therefore fuck them. Pussies.