"Dont mind me officer, Im just training my (brain) model"

AFAIK, you don't actually need actually need an LLM to do it, as long as you do what Meta did and not upload anything at all. The one who did the copyright infringement is the one who supplied the data to you.

If Midjourney wins, other media corporations are going to host bigger and better LLMs and do the pirating. The "prompters" who think that they're being fighting corporations are the best corporate tools.

AFAIK it was more about getting away from Thomas Edison's patents.

With a chainsaw

That was Hitler's Wednesday afternoon routine and why it's still known as Hump Day, IIRC.

The argument could be made that because the image generator is essentially a regurgitator with no artistic interpretation, there is no transformative artistic value in it. It's like applying a filter with extra steps.

Also the generators charge for access, so they are profiting off of the IP. That's quite different to making something for personal use or releasing it for free.

It has always been an infringement to draw their characters lol (apart from fair use which doesn't apply to most works)

I'm pretty sure it is illegal but tolerated. If drawing is legal, I don't understand why Fan game's are illegal then.

They can and do issue takedowns for drawings all the time, but yes, they are more lenient when people create them

I'm their defense, given that they are massive settled business, banning ai image generations will more likely hurt younger competition rather than hurt Disney.

so far, the only AI that they use was for some trippy effect for a TV show. and it was used because it does look uncanny.

they just want less competition

I guarantee they're also adding AI slop trained on other people's work into their own content, while simultaneously suing anyone who does the same with theirs.

Fuck Disney

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chad

Why is that not slutty mickey mouse, though?

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Fuck Disney and all but midjourney getting fucked over to hell and back would be a Christmas miracle

Oh no, we have this here too? Ohboy...

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