Warner Bros is suing Midjourney for stealing it's charactershttps://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26083934/wb-v-midjourney.pdf
>>150207897I'm not clicking that.
>>150207909It's just the court document
>>150207897>heh screw you actors and writers, we're going to train AI on your work :)>NOOOOOOO HOW DARE YOU TRAIN AI WITH OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, THAT'S HECKING STEALING AAAAAAAAAA
>>150207897Facebook already proved it's not stealing if you use it to train AI.
>>150207972FIVE (5) WHOLE UPBOATS!?!?ON LE REDDIT!?That's gotta be like, at least like 150 million in damages, easy!
>>150207970>Meta torrented 80+ terabytes of data of books and they were legally allowed to do soIt's only okay when rich people do it though
>request copyrighted characters with specific prompts>be shocked when you get said copyrighted characters with the specific prompts you requestedI suppose that's a bit besides the point but fuck what did you think was going to happen
>>150208077I kinda skimmed through the document but they argue that part of the appeal of the service is that people can do that and that is bad because it's a paid service or whatever
>>150207919Midjourney’s style looks nothing like TTG. This will fall under the same legality as fan fiction.
>>150208077The argument they're making is that it should be illegal to train generative AI on copyrighted content without paying the copyright holder. And frankly, I would agree. I would love to see a world where every one of these piece-of-shit AI startups has to pay a per-generation royalty fee to every single artist they steal from.
I can't help but wonder how this will end up.You can't really put the genie back in the bottle, so I assume they're just gonna try to get the actual IP owners compensation? I dunno if that woul work either.
>>150208173It’s no different than music sampling.You fags are fine pirating games and streaming movies until Mr. AI does it.
>>150208221>It’s no different than music sampling.Music sampling IS theft and is the music equivalent of tracing.
>>150208244i usually don't see anyone give a damn about sampling beyond pointing it out like a /co/ viewer points and gawks at references in chip and dale's movie. especially since it seems prominent to sample music in rap and everyone loves it like "yo they used that other thing dammnn this fire"
>>150208173>The argument they're making is that it should be illegal to train generative AI on copyrighted content without paying the copyright holderI figured that was the point but likeI just don't care at this pointThe artfags want us to be upset about this, the AIfags want us to be upset about them being upset, the artfags get into a pissing match with the AIfags, the artfags have this false sense of moral superiority over the AIfags, the AIfags think the artfags are outdated and will be replaced by their computers that take billions of tries and an ungodly amount of tags to get the result you wantY'know there's people in poverty right now? That statistically speaking it's guaranteed somewhere on Earth, someone is being raped or murdered as we type in this thread? It all feels so trivial and tiresome
If AI is copyright infrightment, then so is editing and sharing images in any way.
>>150208264>especially since it seems prominent to sample music in rap and everyone loves it like "yo they used that other thing dammnn this fire"Funny you should say that because there's a particular enduring stereotype regarding people of african heritage...
>>150208173>a per-generation royalty fee to every single artist they steal from.I don't think copyright has ever worked like that and I doubt it could be changed to assist anyone who actually needs it to work like that. The purpose of a system is what it does, not what you and I wish it to be.
>>150208130>it's a paid service or whateverIs Midjourney really a paid service? I'm curious how good it is at replicating copyrightable elements from Intellectual Properties held by Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. (WBD, -1.26%) that they don’t give a shit aboutFor research purposes of course, I'll field all results to David Zaslav himself
>>150208721>$9 up frontFuck that nevermind
>>150208172>This will fall under the same legality as fan fiction.Fun fact, that's also not legal, IP owners just generally don't care because there aren't billion dollar companies automating fan fic production while charging a fee for it but bet your ass they would if that were the case. I don't think this will succeed because the techbros that see generative AI as the future are willing to bribe their way through it but man would it be funny if they studio won and fan fiction got caught in the crossfire.
