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 owners, which is why many have sued AI companies. Disney, along with Universal and Warner Bros., has already filed lawsuits against Midjourney AI over similar infringement concerns.
CNET has reached out to Disney and Google for comment.
(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)
This is a developing story.