Disney and Universal's copyright lawsuit against Midjourney could set the stage for Hollywood's relationship with the new tech The post Hollywood Studios’ First Lawsuit on AI Sends a Warning to Tech Giants: ‘Piracy Is Piracy’ appeared first on TheWrap.

The battle over the future of AI-generated content escalated on Wednesday as two Hollywood titans sued a fast-growing AI start-up for copyright infringement.

"Piracy is piracy, and the fact that it's done by an AI company does not make it any less infringing," said Disney general counsel Horacio Gutierrez in a statement. The studios claim Midjourney downloaded copyrighted content from the Internet using "bots, scrapers, streamrippers, video downloaders, and web crawlers" to train its AI model.

A closely watched class and collective action against the HR management services company Workday, Inc. reached a new milestone recently, when the Northern District of California conditionally certified Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) claims on behalf of a sprawling collective believed to include millions of job applicants.

Disney and Universal are the first major Hollywood studios to file copyright infringement lawsuits against AI companies, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing fight by artists, newspapers and content makers to stop AI firms from using their work as training data.

Disney fans are calling out the company for seemingly making new Oogie Boogie Bash posters using AI, despite currently suing an AI company. AI Oogie Boogie Bash Posters The Disneyland Resort Magic Key pages shared the Oogie Boogie Bash posters on social media to coincide with the release of this year’s Halloween event details.

A Minnesota solar company is suing Google for defamation, claiming the tech company’s AI Overview falsely stated that the company faced a lawsuit from the Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

Key Takeaways Meta on Thursday said it is taking legal action to a company using AI technology to create nonconsensual sexual images of people.Joy Timeline Limited, based in Hong Kong, has allegedly circumvented Meta's ad review process to advertise its "nudify" app CrushAI.