Hollywood artist @Rahll exposed Midjourney, an AI service, for copyright infringement by demonstrating its capability to generate near-perfect copies of movie stills without attribution. In retaliation, Midjourney revoked @Rahll's privileges and wiped his history. The incident has raised concerns over the lack of ethically-obtained datasets in the industry, with @Rahll's account being deleted after calling out what he described as 'massive IP theft'. The artist criticized the double standard, noting that if a company like Adobe had taken similar actions, there would likely be public outrage.
👇@midjourney appears to be very concerned about what @Rahll has to say 🤔 https://t.co/h65nXZiSjF
Hey guys, @midjourney banned me a SECOND time for exposing their copyright infringement. If Adobe or any other company did this to people critical of them there'd be outrage. Please share, this is unacceptable and extremely incriminating. https://t.co/N3hvJq6NHd
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
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…