Warner Bros. is suing synthetic intelligence firm Midjourney for copyright infringement, alleging that the startup allows its hundreds of thousands of subscribers to create AI-generated pictures and movies of copyrighted characters like Superman and Bugs Bunny.
It’s the third massive Hollywood studio to sue Midjourney in Los Angeles federal court docket after Disney and Common filed a joint lawsuit in June.
Midjourney, primarily based in San Francisco, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The lawsuit alleges Midjourney skilled its AI system on “unlawful copies” of Warner Bros. works and encourages its customers to select iconic characters like Batman, Surprise Lady, Scooby-Doo or the Powerpuff Women and create downloaded pictures and movies of these characters in “each possible scene.”
Even a generic immediate for the AI device to provide a “basic comedian e book superhero battle” will generate high-quality pictures of DC Studios figures resembling Superman, Batman and Flash, in accordance with the lawsuit.
Warner Bros. says “Midjourney thinks it’s above the legislation” and “may simply cease its theft and exploitation” of mental property in the identical means it units limits on violence or nudity.
The lawsuit alleges Midjourney’s practices create “client confusion concerning what’s lawful and what’s not lawful by deceptive its subscribers to imagine that Midjourney’s large copying and the numerous infringing pictures and movies generated by its Service are one way or the other approved by Warner Bros. Discovery.”
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