New version of Midjourney just copies famous movie scenes near-exactly

Aren't copyright-holders going to do anything about this? It's crazy how corporations will go after some random little guy who reshares their movie online, but don't do anything about AI companies stealing their shit for profit.

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  1. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >AI generated image

  2. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Real movie scene

  3. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    They won't bother until someone starts selling AI slop that blatantly reuses their content

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      That's already happening. Several video games released in 2023 have used AI generated imagery or voices etc.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Okay, but how blatantly do they look like existing works?

  4. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Copy this frame.
    >omg, it does it.
    Is this supposed to be impressive?

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      according to techbros, yes
      they literally think that AI is god

  5. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    its only a matter of time before all this ai crap gets shut down

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      It should have been shut down well over a year ago. Copyright lawyers will go after Youtubers for having 5 seconds of music in a video, but they won't go after AI companies for straight-up stealing their shit?

      It's extremely suspicious. AI corporations seem like they are allowed to get away with things that nobody else would be able to. It's like they have some kind of protection in some way...

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why do you want to give copyright holders more power? Are you fricking moronic?

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes these "people" are moronic

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Copyright lawyers will go after Youtubers for having 5 seconds of music in a video, but they won't go after AI companies for straight-up stealing their shit?

        This is my question. And I'm playing devil's advocate a bit here: If you put your shit online for everyone to see, doesn't the AI company have just as much right to scrape and download it? The thing they're using is the image for training, not re-selling the image. I.e. if some dumb shmuck would look online to develop his own style, and use those pictures that are online to do it, wouldn't that be the same? You can make a painting or art in someone else's style? That's not illegal.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          If the neural net has a brake on it saying it won’t just give out a duplicate if prompted, then you are correct. People are out here mad that something they gave away for free is being used as “inspiration” (for lack of a better word) for new works.
          The case in the OP seems like they’ve reduced the random element in their algorithm with probably won’t fly

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >AI companies
        those are microsoft and amazon, who provide the computing power for those meme ai tools. The studios can't touch them

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        >stealing
        >copying
        these two things are not the same

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Get a real job.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      It should have been shut down well over a year ago. Copyright lawyers will go after Youtubers for having 5 seconds of music in a video, but they won't go after AI companies for straight-up stealing their shit?

      It's extremely suspicious. AI corporations seem like they are allowed to get away with things that nobody else would be able to. It's like they have some kind of protection in some way...

      Studios won't shut it down yet because they desperately want to USE it. It cost hundreds of millions of dollars to produce the original film. If AI can just recreate that shit for nothing in 15 minutes studios could cut 90% of their highest paid staff overnight. By the time they realize that AI tech is going to kill their businesses it'll be too late. AI is literally The One Ring. Everyone is too focused on it's power to realize that it's going to ruin them.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Everybody wants to use it. For whatever they can. There's an Infinity Snap level population collapse coming in about 70 years, and they want to be ready.

  6. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    uhhh AI sisters? I thought we were artists or at least art directors....but this makes us look like thieves!!

  7. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >copies
    No shit, all ai generated art works using copying what it was trained by. In this particular case it can pinpoint the pictures more accurately by taking in the prompt.

  8. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    I pray that every single ai company involved who released this shit to the public so haphazardly ends up getting sued into oblivion.
    They genuinely made the world worse and our future students even fricking dumber
    This was the equivalent of putting assisted driving in commercial vehicles before it was fully vetted
    All these corpos need their come uppance.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      How did it make students dumber?

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Using chatbot to write shit for you I'm guessing.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          Plagiarism detectors exist

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          What is turnitin for?

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          >fricking calculators making our students dumber, back in my day we used our fingers
          >fricking rulers making students dumber, back in my day we measured things using our feet
          kys boomer, technological advancement is a good thing

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            >AI is just a tool bro! like rulers and calculators!
            dumbest comment I've seen possibly all year

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              That's all ChatGPT is though. It's a calculator for language. Midjourney is a calculator for graphic art.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        As a med student studying at the most prestigious school in my country, let me tell you something. It's alarming how often I see students with chatGPT open on their laptops while they're studying. I see most students taking shortcuts, doing minimum amount of work, no pride in their work, being sloppy and never really developing good work ethic, etc.

        We're already seeing mass reports about incompetence in many work sectors and from what I'm seeing and experiencing first hand it's only going to get worse.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          >implying it's gpt that's causing the biggest problems
          I graduated college in the US a decade ago and even freshman year the amount of straight up cheating that happened was shocking. Students barely even tried to hide it and professors were already clearly turning a blind eye to the entire situation. I'm certain it's only gotten worse since then. And this wasn't some podunk party college either, it has very competitive national level business and medical programs.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          You are one of the good ones. It will be an honor to have you euthanize me one day...doctor.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          The competence crisis is because of diversity hires, not AI. We spent more than a decade hiring based on wanting to suckoff other dudes or what color they are.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nah, I hope it doesn't get controlled and destroys society like we deserve

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      >and our future students even fricking dumber

      That just means they were dumb to begin with. AI just amplifies what you already have. I use it to learn shit I would normally have to go to a professional or a teacher for and pay thousands of dollars for. Now I can just interactively learn things I want to learn and do it in my pace.

      In other words, if you're a dumb person who just wants the answers, then yes, AI will just be a 'quick answer' machine. If you're a smart person who actually uses AI to do smart things, it's a necessity.

  9. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >overcooked their model
    Many such cases.

  10. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Wow another random disingenuous anti-AIgay trained an AI to replicate copyrighted content so he could ''own'' the pro-AIgays

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      no he didn't train midjourney

  11. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >New version of Midjourney just copies famous movie scenes near-exactly
    what's the point?

  12. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    when are they going to make an ai where i can just upload pics of a girl and it will generate porn of that girl for me

    it seems like this would be most on demand of ai

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      that already exists, the business model is just illegal so you have to go make it yourself

  13. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >technology shouldn’t be available to the masses
    In a just world the people who think shit like this would be beheaded.
    AIdoomers are so moronicly narrow minded and short-sighted.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's an objective fact that art has suffered from mass democratisation in the information age

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        Lolno, you can go out and find any genre you want of literature, music, or visual arts, being made accessible to you for free so you can pick based on your own tastes in media. Movies and TV shows maybe, but those are practically made by one cartel and the decline in quality is more because of nepotism than democratization

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          lolyes, democratisation means most media is now targeted at the lowest common denominator. You admit it in the case of tv and media

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            That's not because of democratization you nitwit, it's because of the profit motives directing the behavior of Hollywood to make slop for the largest possible audience. It's literally the opposite of how you think it works

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              Profit motives also incentivize exploiting a niche. Funny how that works isnt it?

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Tell that to Hollywood lol

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                they already know and have been exploiting this shit for decades
                you are just to drunk on your marxist rhetoric to see it

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Lol
                Everything made these days is bland slop with a genre facade at best. You know I'm right, stop the kayfabe boomer, we don't do that anymore

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                So you agree that profit motives drive studios to produce slop for both a general audience and a niche audience then? In direct contradiction to the statement "That's not because of democratization you nitwit, it's because of the profit motives directing the behavior of Hollywood to make slop for the largest possible audience.".

          • 5 months ago
            Anonymous

            Shakespeare was lowest common denominator trash, why are you acting like this is a new phenomenon?

            • 5 months ago
              Anonymous

              Shakespeare was controversial but the guy got a royal patronage and some of his plays have highbrow humor in them, which just goes to show that "lowest common denominator trash" and "made for general audiences" are not equivalent

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Marlowe shits all over Shakespeare frick you

              • 5 months ago
                Anonymous

                Pretending like Marlowe didn't fake his death and reinvent himself as Shakespeare.

  14. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    How is this copyright infringement? These are the same idiot luddites who complained when photography, audio recording and photocopiers came around.
    Why are you even worried that hollywood might lose money? Most of it is completely predictable slop anyway, may as well have an ai do it at this point.

  15. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Should movie companies be legally able to lobotomize humans artists who can also draw frames from movies if asked?

  16. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    Unless the prompt was “frame x of [movie]” then it’s nothing. The OP post defeats its own argument by admitting it took 15 minutes to partially duplicate frames that took a dozen manhours fo make in the first place.

  17. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    copyright as a concept no longer makes sense. you don't even need discount monks or a printing press: CTRL-C + CTRL-V.

    let people reuse whatever they want, even claim they made it, without crediting the original author. the art world will not collapse.

  18. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    So if AI isn't allowed to view copyrighted material for reference why are people? How do you stop a person taking inspiration from all the media they've consumed?
    Seems an impossible ask.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      people are special or something

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      on long bus rides i close my eyes and rewatch an entire film in my head.

      • 5 months ago
        Anonymous

        They want to sue you for this.

        • 5 months ago
          Anonymous

          in prison i'll imagine a cute anime-like girl tells me i am the chosen one and gives me super powers, then i go and beat up all the lawyers who locked me up.

          can't arrest me twice.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Hold on there champ. You go down that path and Sneeder will be sued out the ass.

  19. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    People who try to censor AI deserve to be murdered by terminators.

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Almost prophetic. MJ show you images of fried chicken because its internal filters stop it. It's internal filters stop it because it draws racist images whenever you ask for fried chicken (or 'sorority halloween party', for that matter). In trying to make it inclusive but also not offensive they made it capable of only generating racist caricatures for some prompts. Now, I don't think they trained it on racist cartoons from the 1900s, they accomplished this by trying to censor it. It's like if O'Henry wrote science fiction...

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      I completely agree with you.

  20. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    >ok computer draw the mcdonalds logo
    >yes master *shits out the mcdonalds logo*
    >HOLY SHIT GUYS IT BROKE COPYRIGHT LAW

    • 5 months ago
      Anonymous

      Google Images has been getting away with this for YEARS

  21. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    core refutation of the OP coming right up:

    If you're sued for copyright infringement, and you can prove you generated the content in question without outside influences or "copying" anything, then you have proven you have not infringed copyrights.

    its like how IBM "copyrighted" the first BIOS, but when other companies started making their own, as the code wasn't exactly complex, they couldn't do shit.

    so the reason no one is going after AI content generation is because its provably not just directly copying frames.

  22. 5 months ago
    Anonymous

    LOL I'm friends with him on facebook. That's Reid Southen.

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      Anonymous
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        Anonymous

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