AI News July 5, 2026
Today's AI headlines: Better Models: Worse Tools, Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage, The fanfiction community is at war
Better Models: Worse Tools
Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.
The fanfiction community is at war with AI — and itself
Fanfiction communities are trying to hunt down writers who haven’t written works with their own hands. | Image: Álvaro Bernis / The Verge
Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative AI. But the detection methods being implemented are questionable, and any fanfic writer could be caught in the crossfire.
Broad distaste around the use of Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools has long been a thing in creative communities, including th