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Disney invests $1B into OpenAI with allowing access to all Disney characters
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-openai-sora-agreement/
Of course Disney loves its cease and desists such as one to character.ai in October and one today to Google: https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/disney-google-ai-copyright-infringement-cease-and-desist-letter-1236606429/
Is this actually because of brand protection or just shareholder value? Racist, sexist, and all around abhorrent content is now easily generated with your favorite Disney owned characters just as long as you do it on the approved platform.
Remember the flood of offensive Pixaresque slop that happened in 2023? We're gonna see something similar thanks to this deal for sure.
Somebody on bsky mentioned this is prob because Disney wants to be seen on the stockmarket as a tech company, and not a cartoon/theme park company.
(See how Tesla went from cars to self driving to now robots)
So the code red is over now, I guess?!?!
(who ordered the code red.gif)