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.

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

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