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Last week, Warner Bros. sued Midjourney – like Disney and Universal did before – and Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5B for scraping protected literature.
Midjourney responds to Disney and Universal’s lawsuit, arguing fair use and accusing studios of using GenAI while trying to restrict it for others.
Midjourney founder David Holz has previously admitted that his product is “a big scrape of the internet” and that he has stolen hundreds of millions of images without permission from rightsholders.
A Stability employee’s bot was caught scraping Midjourney text prompts and images, causing a 24-hour shutdown of the service.
Developed by computer scientists at the University of Chicago, Nightshade confuses AI training models with bad data.
According to the office, providing text prompts is not sufficient enough input to qualify images as “the product of human authorship.”
The suit claims generative AI art tools violate copyright law by scraping artists’ work from the web without their consent.
Using software like Dall-E and Midjourney, artists are creating comics without lifting a pencil.