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Disney sues AI image generator Midjourney (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] HedyL@awful.systems 12 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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?

[–] rook@awful.systems 15 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 8 points 18 hours ago

According to them at least.

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 7 points 22 hours ago

Absolutely not.