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5-Sekunden-Videos: Midjourney animiert Bilder
Midjourney hat sein erstes Videomodell vorgestellt. Damit lassen sich Bilder in fünfsekündige Videos umwandeln.
https://www.heise.de/news/…

I love that this accidental shot emerged, well by accident, in #midjourney. #aiphotography
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Midjourney launches V1, its first AI video generation model, letting subscribers animate images via its website; video jobs will cost ~8x more than image jobs (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/business/surpa…

‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit
For enterprise leaders evaluating AI, Midjourney Video V1's a double-edged sword: a low-cost, fast-evolving tool with strong user adoption

Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney - The Illusion of More https://illusionofmore.com/major-film-studios-file-copyright-suit-against-midjourney/

Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney - The Illusion of More
Disney and Universal file the first copyright infringement suit by major studios against an AI developer in Disney et. al v. Midjourney.

Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/11/disney-nbcu-midjourney-copyright
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Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
It's the first legal action from major Hollywood studios against a generative AI company.

Urheberrecht: KI-Training mit Büchern ist erlaubt – wenn man sie kauft
https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2025-06/urheberrecht-buecher-meta-anthropic-newsletter-kuenstliche-intelligenz

Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/11/disney-nbcu-midjourney-copyright
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Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
It's the first legal action from major Hollywood studios against a generative AI company.

Disney und Universal klagen gegen Midjourney: Urheberrecht auf Figuren
Midjourneys Bildgenerator generiert bekannte Figuren wie Shrek, Darth Vader oder Buzz Lightyear. Das findet Disney nicht lustig.

Synthesizing Reality: Leveraging the Generative AI-Powered Platform Midjourney for Construction Worker Detection
Hongyang Zhao, Tianyu Liang, Sina Davari, Daeho Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13221

Synthesizing Reality: Leveraging the Generative AI-Powered Platform Midjourney for Construction Worker Detection
While recent advancements in deep neural networks (DNNs) have substantially enhanced visual AI's capabilities, the challenge of inadequate data diversity and volume remains, particularly in construction domain. This study presents a novel image synthesis methodology tailored for construction worker detection, leveraging the generative-AI platform Midjourney. The approach entails generating a collection of 12,000 synthetic images by formulating 3000 different prompts, with an emphasis on image r…

I wonder how this can be leveraged in our #VFX industry.
Can you position a company as the guys who’ll fix stuff that another team messed up because they thought they can do an effects shot with Midjourney but then ended up with nothing to show once the director wanted a simple revision like turning that object a tiny bit more or making the cool explosion more „swooosh“ instead of „wooosh“?

Meta announces a partnership with Midjourney, to license the startup's "aesthetic technology" for Meta's future models and products (Alexandr Wang/@alexandr_wang)
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1958983843169673367

Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) on X
1/ Today we’re proud to announce a partnership with @midjourney, to license their aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing beauty to billions.

Innovating China's Intangible Cultural Heritage with DeepSeek MidJourney: The Case of Yangliuqing theme Woodblock Prints
RuiKun Yang, ZhongLiang Wei, Longdi Xian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14104

Innovating China's Intangible Cultural Heritage with DeepSeek + MidJourney: The Case of Yangliuqing theme Woodblock Prints
Yangliuqing woodblock prints, a cornerstone of China's intangible cultural heritage, are celebrated for their intricate designs and vibrant colors. However, preserving these traditional art forms while fostering innovation presents significant challenges. This study explores the DeepSeek + MidJourney approach to generating creative, themed Yangliuqing woodblock prints focused on the fight against COVID-19 and depicting joyous winners. Using Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) scores for evaluatio…

Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney - The Illusion of More https://illusionofmore.com/major-film-studios-file-copyrigh…

Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney - The Illusion of More
Disney and Universal file the first copyright infringement suit by major studios against an AI developer in Disney et. al v. Midjourney.

Inside Disney's plan to limit AI companies' use of its IP, which led Disney and Comcast to sue Midjourney; Disney is also in talks with companies like OpenAI (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

“Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism. Piracy is piracy, and whether an infringing image or video is made with AI or another technology does not make it any less infringing” — Disney and Universal
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This is a really cool insight about talking to people who like to use Midjourney/ChatGPT. The comparison with plastic use (and also car dependency) is great. For both of these things we know that they waste precious resources, pollute the environment and are health hazards. But even people who know this will still not let go because it's too much work. AI is not yet at this point but may soon be...

Towards Effective Prompt Stealing Attack against Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Shiqian Zhao, Chong Wang, Yiming Li, Yihao Huang, Wenjie Qu, Siew-Kei Lam, Yi Xie, Kangjie Chen, Jie Zhang, Tianwei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06837

Towards Effective Prompt Stealing Attack against Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Text-to-Image (T2I) models, represented by DALL$\cdot$E and Midjourney, have gained huge popularity for creating realistic images. The quality of these images relies on the carefully engineered prompts, which have become valuable intellectual property. While skilled prompters showcase their AI-generated art on markets to attract buyers, this business incidentally exposes them to \textit{prompt stealing attacks}. Existing state-of-the-art attack techniques reconstruct the prompts from a fixed se…

Idea: have Midjourney generate slop, then copy it as an oil painting and sell it to Facebook Boomers