This Week in AI: Midjourney bets it can beat the copyright police

This Week in AI: Midjourney bets it can beat the copyright police

TechCrunch·2024-03-17 12:00

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Last week, Midjourney, the AI startup building image (and soon video) generators, made a small, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it change to its terms of service related to the company’s policy around IP disputes. It mainly served to replace jokey language with more lawyerly, doubtless case law-grounded clauses. But the change can also be taken as a sign of Midjourney’s conviction that AI vendors like itself will emerge victorious in the courtroom battles with creators whose works comprise vendors’ training data.

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