Disney (DIS) and Universal (CMCSA) have filed a lawsuit against AI image generator Midjourney, contending that the company “helped itself to countless” copyrighted works to train its software, which allows people to create images that “blatantly incorporate and copy Disney’s and Universal’s famous characters,” The New York Times’ Brooks Barnes reports. “Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism,” the companies said in the lawsuit, which was filed in United States District Court in Los Angeles.
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