Disney is going to immediately regret a deal with Sora. They obviously haven't seen what Sora has already done with the Pixar style animation (i.e. racism, misogyny, lampooning special needs children, 9/11, and murder victims, etc).
As many of you might know, but for those who don't, "A.I" is a misnomer. The people who work in the field call it machine learning, and anytime I have the chance to spread that gospel, I take it, as "A.I." implies some kind of sentience, when it's just 1's and 0's.
The work of the animators, the personalities created by the writers, will get input by data entry workers into a program, and none of those creatives will get reimbursed.
Disney has always licensed their characters on everything. Walk through any dollar store and you'll see. When they bought Marvel, Spidey joined the bonanza.
(On a side note, this is part of why i stopped buying licensed apparel and artworks. 1., If a corporation wants to use me a billboard, they can pay me, 2. Bob Layton pointed out o Twitter a few years back artists never get compensated. His famous Iron Man cover? His contract was to create a piece of comic book art, not dish towels, not T-shirts, not mirrors and lampshades.)
The bigger picture is, Disney is investing in beta testing or R & D, so they never have to pay creatives again.
No more Howard Ashman, no more Robert Downey, Jr. or Julie Andrews. No more Ward Kimball. So long, George Lucas. What did they ever give us, anyway?
Regardless, I cannot wait to use Sora to create a video of Iger crowning himself king and dropping piles from a fighter jet across Disney theme parks, the Burbank studios, and Walt's grave.
Disney just keeps doing whatever it can to destroy it's legacy for a quick monetary gain. They can afford lawyers to run around conventions and hand out cease and desist letters but are unwilling to pay creatives. And now any jackwagon that wants to have AI spit out Little Mermaid being "courted" by Goofy can do so now with Disney's help(the "robust controls" haven't worked anywhere on any model). What a farce.
This is the turning point, where our childhood characters are getting ruined? I have no answer to this, but an interesting topic as several good content creator's work was taken down by the big D, and now anyone is able to make a bunch of videos for not much reason.
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