Studios Trying to 'Have It Both Ways' With AI, Platform Tells Court
Generative AI firm Midjourney, which faces a pair of similar direct and secondary copyright infringement lawsuits, is offering nearly identical defenses in both. In a response filed Tuesday (docket 2:25-cv-08376), Midjourney told the U.S. District Court for Central California that…
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Warner Bros. "cannot have it both ways" by using generative AI tools, including Midjourney's, in such areas as visual effects, while also accusing those tools of wrongdoing when they use the studios' material to train AI models. Midjourney argued much the same in August in its reply to copyright litigation brought by Disney and Universal (see 2508080019). Warner Bros. filed its suit against Midjourney in September.