Then there’s the other way: With a studio legal victory. The AI models are deemed prohibited from training on this content — this “fair use,” a judge says, ain’t that. In such a scenario we are ensured that for the indefinite future what gets generated in the way of Hollywood images comes from Hollywood and Hollywood alone.

Disney and NBCUniversal sued an artificial intelligence developer for allegedly infringing on their protected works, the first Hollywood corporate titans to join a mushrooming legal war pitting copyright holders against AI upstarts.

Film studios Disney and Universal have sued Midjourney claiming that its image-generating AI is “a bottomless pit of plagiarism”. Although a movie industry case, it’s relevant to the music business too,

Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference, where the original Macintosh computer was unveiled in 1984, commenced on Monday to showcase an array of upcoming, AI-centered incorporations across all Apple products.

Disney and Universal are suing ... But in response to the 2023 lawsuit, Midjourney argued that any single image created by AI “comprises an infinitesimal fragment of a model’s training ...