Midjourney

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AI image generation company that creates images from text prompts. Trained on millions of images scraped without permission from artists worldwide.

Website

https://midjourney.com

CEO

David Holz

Founded

2022

> Founders

David Holz

> Products & Services

Midjourney AI

> Funding

Undisclosed

> Controversies

Trained entirely on scraped images from artists without consent.[1][2]

Controversy 1 Sources:

  1. Artists File Class-Action Lawsuit Against AI Image Generator Companies(January 2023)
  2. Disney and Universal Sue AI Firm Midjourney for Copyright Infringement(June 2025)

Directly competes with and replaces human illustrators, graphic designers, and artists.[3][4][5][6][7]

Controversy 2 Sources:

  1. AI in Graphic Design - Job Displacement Statistics(2024)
  2. How the illustration industry is grappling with AI - a special report(2024)
  3. Kelly McKernan - Artist affected by AI(September 2024)
  4. AI in the Graphic Design Industry Statistics(2024)
  5. He Used AI to Publish a Children's Book in a Weekend. Artists Are Not Happy About It(December 2024)

Multiple lawsuits from artists and refuses to disclose training data sources.[8][9][10][11]

Controversy 3 Sources:

  1. Artists File Class-Action Lawsuit Against AI Image Generator Companies(January 2023)
  2. Two Artists Suing AI Image Makers Never Copyrighted Their Works(October 2023)
  3. Disney and Universal Sue AI Firm Midjourney for Copyright Infringement(June 2025)
  4. Warner Bros. Discovery Sues Midjourney(September 2024)

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