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It's like in wrestling when a popular heel takes a face turn to fight another worse heel. Universal/Disney tag team!!!

Enough concerns got raised about those contracts that we got told by our own higher-ups that they were taking it back to Legal, and until we got further word, DON'T SIGN ANYTHING. We never got new ones. But I vow I never stole any scrap lumber. (May have acquired a few pens, though.)

Delighted to hear it! I hope they burn them to the ground and piss on the ashes.

It's limiting the product? Well, yes, it is. So what? Like every little creator is limited in what other works they can use and create based on that. No company ever complained about the existence of license fees, while it was them getting paid. You're asking for license fees, too. Are you not?

And somehow I'm siding with Sauron. How bad do you have to be to make Sauron look good?

Ironically and shittily they would have gotten away with it if they'd just stuck to ripping off anime/furry fandom artists.

Probably the easiest. It's fish in a barrel. They spent a lot of time documenting easily found copyrighted material on its Explore pages “popular 90’s animated cartoon with yellow skin"

The biggest issue here is clearly that erroneous comma between "countless" and "unauthorized"

the ip in the hand or the ai in the bush?

The Mob are just so unwilling to get with it man

We need Congressional legislation to legally codify Shrek.

Yaman was born to the sound of bombs instead of lullabies. A child who has known nothing but cold and hunger—he needs only milk and diapers. Let us be the warmth of this world for him, before cruelty takes him as it has taken so many before. www.gofundme.com/f/support-al...

frankly, they nailed it. that certainly describes the character Shrek from the movie of the same name!

Shrek is love, Shrek is life

@herring1967.bsky.social I think someone's getting in trouble here for putting a shrek in it

FINALLY

This paragraph cost $1,200

I enjoy that they chose to avoid gendered pronouns for Shrek

brilliant. no notes.

disney being not evil for the first time in history

finally, biblically accurate Shrek

So what this tells me is if I remove Shrek’s ears I can claim him as my own creation

finally

Funny as it is to watch Disney spend $2500 to define How To Train Your Dragon's "Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III," you do this when you are planning to rip a company in two for copyright infringement. In this case, Midjourney is being sued by two of the most powerful IP holders in history. Not good!

That is an incorrect definition, as it does not include the fact that ogres are like onions

Finally, I can use a legal definition, instead of having to settle for what somebody once told me...

Shrek is love. Shrek is large, bald, dull-green ogre.

John "Shrek" McPhee FYI. ☕

Sam Altman better be setting up another round of funding soon

The legal definition of Shrek is also, in itself, a good example of how to write alt text describing Shrek.

There are so many college football coaches who are apparently violating this copyright daily

Is that Shrek or John Fetterman?

The only Shrek I recognize:

A new tshirt for Jamie Loftus.

"Shrek has what is commonly termed a GYAT."

Literally generated this seconds ago haha

finally a way to evaluate the legal amount of shrekness for various entities

"I may not be able to define (Shrek), but I know it when I see it."

Finally pinned em down on it

@radderss.bsky.social sounds kind of rude about shrek if you ask me

@jjjacksfilms.bsky.social get in here

"I have a lawsuit he can't refuse"

I would bet my life savings that C-Suite discussions have occurred behind closed doors at Disney and Universal where they talk about leveraging AI specifically to avoid paying their animators. They're just mad they're the victims and not the perpetrators in this instance.

It kind of sucks that the only way not to get mugged is for the thief to try steal Al Capone’s wallet though

They should have a GIF of Shrek turning into the Hulk!

Omg you’re right. If this lawsuit is successful we’ll never reach the Pregnant Minion Singularity. What will my cult say?!

Live from Midjourney youtu.be/yHN9h10CuVk?...

Meta stole all these as well so why not Meta lawsuit?

Hopefully also OpenAI

"Wait, I thought we were Sauron?" "Yes, we are also a third, different Sauron"

supporters of the Boxer Rebellion- "Don't worry, the 8 Nation Alliance will just settle out of court"

This exactly summarizes why I audibly guffawed at this headline

The maia, the dinosaur, or both?

The Lord if the Rings Sauron is bad enough, but now there's a Sauron coming out if the Marvel Comics, and it's just too much...

putting money on it getting settled the same way that the major labels settled with Spotify.

And also a hobbit seems to have given them a gold ring

A broken clock and all that.

OpenAI: ahh fuck, we're just Saruman?? 😩

with the combined strength of Sauron AND Saruman...and the union of the two corporation towers

Sauron vs. Balrog tennis match

The funny thing is the chuds that use AI explicitly want to be able to copy thier favorite work because they lack imagination and creativity. So it's not even like Midjourney can tweak the AI to change the output a little so it's not a direct copy, cause that's literally what they are selling.

Damn, it's a shame that back in the '90s when the MPAA and RIAA were suing the pants off of file-sharers, nobody thought of the "there's a lot of content and it's just so HARD to figure out who, if anyone, it belongs to" defense.

otoh, Disney is and always will be rich, with or without copyright infringement..

Wait a minute, disney is the good guy?

My GOD i am so glad the mouse has finally joined the damn fight

We were tracing back people's posted art LONG before you could do a reverse image search. Hell, there were whole social media wars over not giving someone credit when it was actually difficult to know who made something. Now? Simple reverse image search and poof, info.

They literally described reverse image search.

The supreme arrogance of tech bros. The show “Silicon Valley” is so important for people to watch to understand how to treat these idiots.

I’m okay with the Mouse House winning as long as Don Mickey annihilates Midjourney.

They really poked the wasp nest with this one

I only wish the class action lawsuits got to it before The Mouse did.

Expect more lawsuits i would think.

Everyone knows you don't cross the Mouse. EVERYONE. The Mouse always finds out, and the Mouse always comes to collect. And I'm gonna sit here and drink my water and watch the tag team rip Midjourney to pieces before they move on to the next one.

Bismilla, lets hope this will kill those fuckers.

Never thought I'd be rooting for the Backwards Gisney company but here we are.

huehuehuehuehuehuehuehue

Special thanks to Disney for providing their own on-screen metaphor

Look if we're gonna be trapped in this capitalist nightmare can we at least get the megacorps kicking in eachothers teeth now and then

They'll find a way to ruin it but someone had to say hey plagiarism is bad actually.

The way I see it is not just about those two behemoths, but about the (potentially beneficial) side effects for the artists’ community at large whose art has also been turbo grifted by these AI generators without any compensation or credit whatsoever. About damn time I say.

Agreed. These plagiarizers must be reined in.

I slightly despise Disney a little less than the AI Slop factories... weird.

“We’ve stolen so much there’s no way to keep track of it all so oh well”

Pharrell and Robin Thicke's lawsuit against Marvin Gaye's estate which ultimately says you can sue based on vibes. Not to mention spotify pays jackshit. What makes me upset is the arrogance of silicon valley thinking they can circumvent all this in the name of "advancing humanity"

Some people just hate art I guess.

Definitely not good! But it would be some bullshit if the rule is "copyright laws only apply to poor people, not corporations." It would be great if we got rid of copyright while also ensuring that artists are able to live a comfortable life doing what they love.

Why should artists have to ask you for permission to make the art they want to make? I understand wanting to be credited, that's fair, but demanding that kind of power over someone else's art seems weird to me. You don't loose anything from them making it.

Really shows how effortlessly one can build a case against these criminals. This should take half a day in court, but the reality may be different.

When there are no good guys to root for, root for the one who isn’t AI.

lol

I knew a guy named Flynn once. Came from a place called Mikado...

Was thinking VenomMyotismon with his two faces

There you go! :D

Wait, Disney doesn’t want to do take-down notices one at a time for each individual infringement?! That’s what the law says is good enough for the rest of us.

Yeah, and how do we even begin to measure the number of violations?