Via an artist friend: “Big expose on all of the copyrighted material Midjourney has trained on, and how commonly it outputs copyrighted content. I would strongly discourage any professional use of Generative AI products.” https://spectrum.ieee.org/midjourney-copyright
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield

IEEE Spectrum
@SazeracLA This is really good. Midjourney banned them three times once they realized what they were investigating. Also seems damning that they discovered evidence a senior software engineer at Midjourney was involved in a conversation about evading copyright law by laundering data. #AI #MidjourneyAI