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People have been using Microsoft Bing AI's new image-generating feature to cook up image upon image of cutesey creatures — ranging from Nintendo's Kirby to beloved Disney rodent Mickey Mouse — perpetrating the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center.
So far, Disney — a company that in 1998 pushed so hard for Congress to change existing copyright laws that the resulting legislation was mockingly referred to as "" — doesn't have a squeak to say about it. Our emails have gone unanswered, leading us to believe that the media giant has no comment on the matter. This is unfortunate, as we're personally dying to get their take on AI-generated terrorist Mickey.
Of course, if Disney had at any point given OpenAI permission to use its vast media treasure trove for AI training purposes, that would be one thing. But considering the weight that the ultra-powerful Disney tends to throw intoto have injected code across its websites to keep OpenAI's web-crawling-slash-scraping GPTBot from trawling its platforms for data, that feels unlikely
And if Bing's Image Creator is able to churn out pictures of Mickey Mouse at all, it likely means that its datasets contain copyrighted material — either official Disney-produced AI imagery, or unofficial Mickey imagery that may have been a copyright violation in its own right.
In addition to revealing the massive holes in the AI's guardrails, the 9/11 thing is more or less an insult to copyright injury. (We also emailed Nickelodeon and Nintendo to inquire about Bing Image Creator-generatedOf course, legal conversations may be happening behind closed doors. And it is worthwhile to ponder a court battle — Disney vs. Microsoft and OpenAI would be a Goliath vs. Goliath fight, and could well become the precedent-setting copyright battle of the AI age.
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