Worse yet, Alcon — and Warner Bros Discovery, which is joining it as a plaintiff — allege that Tesla asked for permission to use a "Blade Runner 2049" still but was turned down, suggesting the EV maker knowingly infringed on the company's copyright by bastardizing its own version using an AI image generator.
The image "was clearly intended to read visually either as an actual still image from ‘BR2049’s iconic sequence of [protagonist] K exploring the ruined Las Vegas, or as a minimally stylized copy of one," Alcon alleges.