Disney Slaps Google With Cease and Desist, Claiming ‘Massive’ Copyright Violations

While Disney inks a $1 billion deal with OpenAI to license its characters for AI videos, the entertainment giant is also reportedly going after Google, Variety reported Thursday. In a cease-and-desist letter sent on Wednesday, Disney claims Google’s AI models are infringing upon its copyright protections on a “massive scale.”

Google’s latest AI model, nicknamed nano banana pro, gives its users the ability to create ultra-realistic AI images. This ability has worried copyright and intellectual property…