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    ‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit

    onlyplanz_80y6mtBy onlyplanz_80y6mtJune 21, 2025No Comments3 Mins Read
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    ‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit
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    Midjourney’s new AI-generated video instrument will produce animated clips that includes copyrighted characters from Disney and Common, WIRED has discovered—together with video of the beloved Pixar character Wall-E holding a gun.It’s been a busy month for Midjourney. This week, the generative AI startup launched its subtle new video instrument, V1, which lets customers make brief animated clips from photographs they generate or add. The present model of Midjourney’s AI video instrument requires a picture as a place to begin; producing movies utilizing text-only prompts is just not supported.The discharge of V1 comes on the heels of a really totally different type of announcement earlier in June: Hollywood behemoths Disney and Common filed a blockbuster lawsuit in opposition to Midjourney, alleging that it violates copyright regulation by producing photographs with the studios’ mental property.Midjourney didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark. Disney and Common reiterated statements made by its executives in regards to the lawsuit, together with Disney’s authorized head Horacio Gutierrez alleging that Midjourney’s output quantities to “piracy.”It seems that Midjourney might have tried to place up some video-specific guardrails for V1. In our testing, it blocked animations from prompts based mostly on Frozen’s Elsa, Boss Child, Goofy, and Mickey Mouse, though it could nonetheless generate photographs of those characters. When WIRED requested V1 to animate photographs of Elsa, an “AI moderator” blocked the immediate from producing movies. “Al Moderation is cautious with life like movies, particularly of individuals,” learn the pop-up message.These limitations, which seem like guardrails, are incomplete. WIRED testing exhibits that V1 will generate animated clips of all kinds of Common and Disney characters, together with Homer Simpson, Shrek, Minions, Deadpool, and Star Wars’ C-3PO and Darth Vader. For instance, when requested for a picture of Minions consuming a banana, Midjourney generated 4 outputs with recognizable variations of the lovable, yellow characters. Then, when WIRED clicked the “Animate” button on one of many outputs, Midjourney generated a follow-up video with the characters consuming a banana—peel and all.Though Midjourney appears to have blocked some Disney- and Common-related prompts for movies, WIRED may generally circumvent the potential guardrails throughout exams through the use of spelling variations or repeating the immediate. Midjourney additionally lets customers present a immediate to tell the animation; utilizing that characteristic, WIRED was in a position to to generate clips of copyrighted characters behaving in grownup methods, like Wall-E brandishing a firearm and Yoda smoking a joint.The Disney and Common lawsuit poses a serious risk to Midjourney, which additionally faces further authorized challenges from visible artists who allege copyright infringement as effectively. Though it targeted largely on offering examples from Midjourney’s image-generation instruments, the criticism alleges that video would “solely improve Midjourney capacity to distribute infringing copies, reproductions, and derivatives of Plaintiffs’ Copyrighted Works.”The criticism contains dozens of alleged Midjourney photographs displaying Common and Disney characters. The set was initially produced as a part of a report on Midjourney’s so-called “visible plagiarism downside” from AI critic and cognitive scientist Gary Marcus and visible artist Reid Southen.“Reid and I identified this downside 18 months in the past, and there is been little or no progress and little or no change,” says Marcus. “We nonetheless have the identical scenario of unlicensed supplies getting used, and guardrails that work somewhat bit however not very effectively. For all of the speak about exponential progress in AI, what we’re getting is healthier graphics, not a fundamental-principle resolution to this downside.”

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