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

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[-] HedyL@awful.systems 14 points 5 days ago

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 18 points 5 days ago

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 12 points 5 days ago

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 9 points 5 days ago

According to them at least.

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