Walt Disney Co. and Comcast Corp. teamed up to sue Midjourney Inc., accusing the startup of copyright infringement in the latest sign of tension between major media companies and a new crop of

Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging it used AI to infringe on copyrighted characters from their studios. The suit highlights figures like Darth Vader and Elsa being recreated by Midjourney's AI tool.

Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.