BUTLERIAN JIHAD WHEN?
Say what you want about Altman, he is a fantastic grifter. Instead of suing the shit out of his worthless hypebag bullshit machine “company”, they’re… paying… him… to license their characters…? These corporations have lost their goddamn minds for this snake oil
At this point I genuinely believe OpenAI knows they’re doomed. They are putting all their effort into these massive deals, trying to tie themselves to as many other companies as they can until they are “too big to fail”. Then when they go bankrupt, trump won’t allow the stock market to crash, so the government will step in and pay everyone out. Maybe these other companies are just trying to get in on the grift while they can.
Disney needs to write off a billion asap. That’s literally all I see. Invest in AI? You already lost money and you need a voided check.
And as a free bonus you get your characters in front of even more millions of impressionable faces than usual. They can tie their personal identity to your IP incrementally ever more. Hooray!
yes /s
I have read 0 facts about this, but I bet that the billion ‘investment’ is mostly just IP license values.
This will only end badly. And I mean racist Goofy meme videos targeted to children badly.
Can’t wait to see Lego Yoda: A Ketamine Story
I’d actually watch that.
AI lover, Yoda
Sora can now make the Frozen/Spiderman content that has been missing
Maybe they can pick up a few good ideas from what people prompt. Their own writers aren’t producing much noteworthy.
Goofy is already racist.
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Disney is perhaps the one company on earth powerful enough to put AI companies on their place regarding all the copyright shit.
How fucking naive of me to not realize they’d join up insteadOh, so the slop generator gets to use Disney’s characters, but they’ll sue a daycare for painting Mickey Mouse on the wall. I see how it is.
The mouse doesn’t expect you to like it. The mouse expects you to endure it.
“its characters” bitch half of your characters are just ripped off from fairy tales
And the other half were just bought by them rather than their own creations.
OPENAI, is seeking some poor sucker to hold the bag before the bubble burst. disney will regret it.
Looks like I will be rediscovering the joys of reading books.
I have a reading disability so I use Claude Pro to summarize books. Woulda helped me in HS because I had a psychotic break after I spent thousands of hours trying to figure out how to understand written and spoken words
They might change their tune once the slop video generators are pumping out officially licensed scenes of Elsa getting gang banged.
Elsa and Spiderman pregante
Could it be possibly that they’re pregonate?
Both of them preganate by each other
Uh, I have bad news for you lol
In my day Snow White railed by the gnomes was animated by hand and passed around on VHS.
This seems wild. This is the last thing I would have expected. Maybe Disney knows they stand no chance against AI and just want to profit from the doom it will bring.
I think it has less to do with their product and more to do with backroom executive bullshit manipulating stock prices, but that’s just an armchair opinion.
I think their intent is to create a fuck ton of cheap AI media to flood Disney+ because even their shitty crap costs a lot to produce. If Disney can create content basically for free they could see a pretty big benefit.
Cutting paid animators out of animation has been the disney dream since Walt was still blowing Nazis.
Cutting paid animators out of animation has been the disney dream since Walt was still blowing Nazis.
Amen. Artist have always gotten treated like shit and Walt was a miserable prick to his workers.
Mickey blowing Nazis is what they are going to get.
All those who would prompt Sora to generate a video of Donald Duck forcefemming Hitler are environmentally conscious and know that such a video would waste an insane amount of electricity.
Yeah, but this also allows their characters in Sora. So anybody can create media with Mickey Mouse. Though maybe there’s more details in missing.
I have watched a lot do kids shows when my kids were little. I think AI is more than capable of replacing a lot do the low effort junk that is currently created. Dora always felt like it was created by an algorithm.
Get ready for Sora the Exploiter
Sammy, no swiping!
It’ll make the green line go up and that’s all they care about. I completely agree that it seems they won’t be able to do anything to stop it so they might as well try and make money from it.
It is both wild and infuriating. Any on-hands creative now have a good reason to be outraged at the about-face.
Given Walt’s own relationship with his animators this is actually very on brand
I’m still very AI ignorant but why would disney go all in on AI when I can just tell my own AI to make up a “disney-like” movie for me and skip the middle-man (disney).
They have more lawyers than you
all monopolies should be split into different smaller companies which would then be given to the workers who would collectivize them. seriously!
God, I didn’t think i could want OpenAI to crash even more than I already did!
all of disney+ catalog can be found on the high seas :)
Just executives milking their company for as much money as they can. They don’t care for their brand. If it makes them money, they’ll totally let Disney slide into an AI content slop hell scape. Ruining the reputation and quality of their product, then bounce with their severance and bonuses when stocks start to fall. Just to go off and do it all over again with another company.
What I don’t get is how are they even milking their IP? They are paying OpenAi to use their IP (in exchange for equity in an unprofitable company).
I’d understand it better if Disney were getting a billion dollars.
They think they’ll get to make movies without paying any writers, actors or directors and still make the same amount of money off them.
they want to use the characters in perputuity without involve the VA/ or actors.
IIRC It will be a feature within the Disney+ app. So normal Sora can’t generate disney characters but Disney’s version can.
Edit: I was wrong, they are just going to feature fan made videos on Disney+
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-openai-sora-agreement/
I imagine Disney itself isn’t getting the kickback here, but whomever the deal makers are. Give us a billion dollars from your company and we’ll give you a cut.
