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Midjourney wants the Hollywood studios that sued it to show the court how they apply AI
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The image generator argued that the companies are also training their AI on copyrighted data.
Key facts
- If Plaintiffs are doing the thing they seek to punish, that evidence goes to the heart of Midjourney's fair use and unclean hands defenses," wrote Midjourney attorney Bobby Ghajar
- The image generator argued that the companies are also training their AI on copyrighted data
- Midjourney argued that training AI with publicly available images is fair use and that the studios themselves use the same training practices for their own AI models
- Specifically, Midjourney is asking for the studios' AI business plans, research reports, training datasets, model weights and even the presentations about AI the companies used for their board
Summary
Midjourney wants to see how Warner Bros. Specifically, Midjourney is asking for the studios' AI business plans, research reports, training datasets, model weights and even the presentations about AI the companies used for their board meetings. According to litigation publication Mealey's, Midjourney's reasoning is that the evidence it's asking for is related to its fair use defense.