Then there’s the other way: With a studio legal victory. The AI models are deemed prohibited from training on this content — this “fair use,” a judge says, ain’t that. In such a scenario we are ensured that for the indefinite future what gets generated in the way of Hollywood images comes from Hollywood and Hollywood alone.

On Tuesday, Disney and Universal filed a joint copyright infringement suit against Midjourney, one of the most widely used generative AI image platforms.