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.

According to Disney and Universal’s lawsuit, Midjourney made $300 million last year. The AI company boasts the world’s largest Discord server at more than 21 million members (Viggle.ai is in second place with around 4.

Disney and Universal just sued Midjourney for scraping their IP—ushering in a major showdown over how AI is trained.