Disney, Comcast Sue AI Image Generator Midjourney

Walt Disney Co. and Comcast Corp. teamed up to sue Midjourney Inc., accusing the startup of copyright infringement in the latest sign of tension between major media companies and a new crop of artificial intelligence businesses.

Midjourney, which launched publicly in 2022, allows people to create vivid, AI-generated images using prompts. Like its competitors ChatGPT and Stability AI, Midjourney built its AI models with datasets that pull imagery from across the internet. While the companies argue that the practice is legal under the fair use doctrine of US copyright law, it has stoked outrage and lawsuits from a ...