"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.

The work is slated to begin this fall.

The never-made screenplay dates to 1937.

Altman called AI art generators a "democratization" of content creation.

The pirated database also contains titles by Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei, and Marina Abramovic.

The auction proceeded despite fierce opposition from thousands of artists, who accused AI models of exploiting human creativity without consent.

The piece by Queer Costa Rican photographer Matías Sauter Morera recalls the queer history of pegamachos or cowboys from the Guanacaste Coast.

"[Christie's] support of these models, and the people who use them, rewards and further incentivizes AI companies' mass theft of human artists' work," the artists wrote.

Among the ancient Greek words identified so far are ἀδιάληπτος (foolish), διατροπή (disgust), φοβ (fear), and βίου (life).

A new report compared AI-generated art to the paintings of Jackson Pollock, which it said were wholly the result of his body movements.