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

Disney and Comcast's Universal are suing Midjourney, an AI image generator, for copyright infringement. The lawsuit claims Midjourney used copyrighted characters without permission from both studios.

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.