Disney and Universal are the first major Hollywood studios to file copyright infringement lawsuits against AI companies, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing fight by artists, newspapers and content makers to stop AI firms from using their work as training data.

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

Two huge movie studios are suing Midjourney, claiming the firm’s AI has been trained on their copyrighted material – the entrance of the Hollywood giants into this legal fight could be a watershed mom

The lawsuit alleges that Midjourney's AI image and video generation technologies "blatantly incorporate and copy Disney's and Universal's famous characters" like Yoda, Shrek and Marvel superheroes.

Disney and Universal have filed a copyright lawsuit against popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney on Wednesday, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have enter the leg

Disney and Universal are suing artificial intelligence (AI) firm Midjourney over its image generator, which the Hollywood giants allege is a "bottomless pit of plagiarism". The two studios claim Midjourney's tool makes "innumerable" copies of characters including Darth Vader from Star Wars,