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[–] 125 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Oh, 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.

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  • [–] 108 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [+] 173 points 11 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 60 points 11 months ago

    Given Walt's own relationship with his animators this is actually very on brand

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  • [–] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

    They might change their tune once the slop video generators are pumping out officially licensed scenes of Elsa getting gang banged.

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  • [–] 72 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 34 points 11 months ago

    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 instead

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    "its characters" bitch half of your characters are just ripped off from fairy tales

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago

    Now your kids can make their own completely unregulated Spider-Man and Elsa content at home

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Why spend money advertising your old mouse when the kids will do it for you?

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago

    all of disney+ catalog can be found on the high seas :)

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago*

    OPENAI, is seeking some poor sucker to hold the bag before the bubble burst. disney will regret it.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago

    This is how the bubble floats a little longer.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago

    Disney movies will be AI generated from here on out.

    Think about it, simulating real actors or their voices has strings attached. Talking cats don't sue, or require wages.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    Conveniently, the AI models are probably already trained on Disney characters to begin with. Definitely a cash grab though.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    Well someone is getting nervous about Marvel’s future

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I wonder if they're going to have special rules what you can and can't do with them.

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  • The first week after Sora was released, characters were shown doing all sorts of brand-unsafe things. OpenAI spoke with companies after that and created blocked term lists to prevent characters and certain interactions with them.

    That is fairly coarse "limiting." However, user red-teaming still makes it possible to show copyrighted characters doing objectionable things. That will likely continue once this is released, unless they are doing something different (like having output be re-reviewed by a secondary AI system and actively exclude the output's description of negative portrayals rather than just user prompt terms).

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I eagerly await the Zootopia output.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    Rule 34 anybody?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    So now does this mean you can just say it was ai generated and you can't get sued by disney /s

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Well you still can, they just choose to not prosecute open ai since everyone knows they ran out of money like 3 years ago.

    More Disney IP out there means more money for Disney, and with open ai anyone can produce IP infringing art

    /S but is it really /s ???

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago

    I love how this should be the other way round (the slop company paying the content "owners") but thanks to turbo capitalism the world get's fucked up in new disgusting ways every day!

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    All of its lot? $1 billion is nothing.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    But allowing use of their IPs for sora it is big..

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    You can bet there's stipulations out the ass with that. The goal is probably to basically just to keep characters in the public eye.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    How long before someone tricks SORA into some Disney themed Rule 34?

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    God, I didn't think i could want OpenAI to crash even more than I already did!

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)
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    Disney? Uhhhhh.......no. I don't think that's a winning bet. You could give birth to a child 10 years from now, that child could grow up to be the longest living person in history, and Disney will use the story of your child as a new film/character. They'll copyright your child's life, and they'll STILL be around 150 years later to dispute that 150 years in copyright protection is too short.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    They know that everyone will use AI to remix all their products into lucrative viral content. Just look at all the AI slop that so many channels on YouTube where they just recreate Star Wars, Star Trek, Harry Potter, actors into all kinds of videos, remixes and music.

    I think Disney sees all this and they'll jump ahead and remix everything with AI with all the products they own.

    Expect to see Star Wars Episode XX starring Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing

    Or Star Trek XXX starring the entire original cast for the 60s

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I wonder if their artists and animators will quit.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    all monopolies should be split into different smaller companies which would then be given to the workers who would collectivize them. seriously!

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    fuckin' A, does no one post sources anymore?
    Turns out, PieFed just shits the bed with link posts that also have images attached and removes any links that might be there originally.

    For those that don't have a link in the title or description:

    Actual: https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/

    Archive: https://archive.ph/NMDdb

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    And immediately starts attacking google for AI IP theft.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    we need another animator's strike- nay, a general workers' strike at disney. seriously!

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago

    Sora AI?

    Okay!

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