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“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney (htxt.co.za)
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  • Disney and NBCUniversal have teamed up to sue Midjourney.
  • The companies allege that the platform used its copyright protected material to train its model and that users can generate content that infringes on Disney and Universal’s copyrighted material.
  • The scathing lawsuit requests that Midjourney be made to pay up for the damage it has caused the two companies.
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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Oh so when Big companies do it, it's OK. But it's stealing when an OpenSource AI gives that same power back to the people.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 3 points 4 days ago

Midjourney isn't opensource, I can't run it on my PC, contrary to stable diffusion.

[–] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

That's part of the strategy. First, go after the small project that can't defend itself. Use that to set a precedent that is harder for the bigger targets to overturn.

I would expect the bigger players to get themselves involved in the defense for exactly that reason.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

There is no logic in mans lust for power. The most self serving will do whatever it takes to achieve wealth, status, and control. The world made so much more sense once I realized that.