"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.

According to Disney and Universal’s lawsuit, it made $300 million last year. The company boasts the world’s largest Discord server at more than 21 million members (Viggle.ai is in second with around 4.

This is the moment many have been waiting for since we saw generative AI tools debut. These are tools that are built from all the images on the internet and trained on our work without permission.