Hollywood artist @Rahll has been banned and had his account deleted by Midjourney after he demonstrated the company's capability of 'duplicating without attribution' movie stills, such as those from 'The Matrix Resurrections'. Midjourney, which has been criticized for not being transparent about its data sources, retaliated by revoking Southen’s privileges and wiping his history. This has led to a broader conversation about the ethical sourcing of datasets for generative systems and the alleged massive IP theft by major players in the industry. The public response has been overwhelmingly negative, with the situation being described as 'depressing', 'embarrassing', and indicative of a lack of intellectual honesty.
pathetic https://t.co/MSqW7zK6SI
Shameful. https://t.co/6QBq0UL5T9
An artist demonstrated that it's easy to get Midjourney to generate near-perfect copies of stills from movies. Before the day was done, Midjourney retaliated - by revoking Southen’s privileges and wiping his history. https://t.co/E8hrwQiLq4
Ethically-obtained datasets for generative systems were always an option …but not a single major player chose that option. Midjourney deleted @rahll’s account after he called them on their blatant and massive IP theft. https://t.co/gJYrghLDQI
This is just painful https://t.co/tuRUgUgQTI
Recapping the last 24 hours in copyright infringment land 👉In the spirit of red-teaming Hollywood artist @Rahll showed that @midjourney (which has not been transparent about its data sources) was capable of very directly “duplicating without attribution” stills from a Hollywood…
Harvard has no intellectual honesty at all. https://t.co/Ur0N7cPMFI
This is shameful, @midjourney. https://t.co/ofLHmdnW4e
So @midjourney has now deleted everything I ever prompted from my gallery for calling out their plagiarism and copyright infringement. Luckily I grabbed this screenshot earlier to show how basically every single Thanos image is damning, and how few it really took. https://t.co/OTvnejT77f
Before @midjourney banned me for outing their plagiarism and copyright infringement, I managed to get these. Notice I misspelled Scarlett Johansson, and it returned Matrix Resurrections imagery for the original Matrix. It infringes so hard, you don't even need to be accurate. https://t.co/vGWhEthc1M
So @midjourney just banned me from their discord and canceled my subscription for outing their blatant plagiarism and copyright infringement. Not a good look @midjourney... https://t.co/GZBAamgLYV
Embarrassing for Harvard tbh https://t.co/Dqd66jgVga
This is so embarrassing https://t.co/mOSNXrLSNH
This is so depressing. https://t.co/j89PUCMAkJ