"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.

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

Disney and Universal are suing the AI company Midjourney for allegedly using their copyrighted characters without permission. The suit claims Midjourney's AI image generator unlawfully reproduced and distributed character images from Disney and Universal films.