Midjourney runs a diffusion model that you can ask to generate pictures. Disney and Universal and several other movie studios have sued because Midjourney keeps spitting out their copyrighted chara…
  • @[email protected]English
    15•13 days ago

    I guess the main question here is: Would their business model remain profitable even after licensing fees to Disney and possibly a lot of other copyright holders?

    • @[email protected]English
      19•13 days ago

      LLMs aren’t profitable even if they never had to pay a penny on license fees. The providers are losing money on every query, and can only be sustained by a firehose of VC money. They’re all hoping for a miracle.

      • OfCourseNot
        12•13 days ago

        Midjourney is also odd in that it didn’t take money from outside investors and it’s actually profitable selling monthly subscriptions.

        From the article.