"Piracy is piracy," says Disney's chief legal officer, as the studios aim to show that tools allowing personalized AI slop creations of characters like Darth Vader or Shrek run afoul of their IP.

Basically, Disney and Universal don’t like that Midjourney allows users to generate content using their intellectual property. “If a Midjourney subscriber submits a simple text prompt requesting an image of the character Darth Vader in a particular setting or doing a particular action,

Disney and Universal just sued Midjourney for scraping their IP—ushering in a major showdown over how AI is trained.