Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney
Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney
Midjourney runs a diffusion model that you can ask to generate pictures. Disney and Universal and several other movie studios have sued because Midjourney keeps spitting out their copyrighted chara…
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I guess the main question here is: Would their business model remain profitable even after licensing fees to Disney and possibly a lot of other copyright holders?
LLMs aren’t profitable even if they never had to pay a penny on license fees. The providers are losing money on every query, and can only be sustained by a firehose of VC money. They’re all hoping for a miracle.
Midjourney is also odd in that it didn’t take money from outside investors and it’s actually profitable selling monthly subscriptions.
From the article.
According to them at least.
Absolutely not.