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Re: The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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Disney is actually paying $1B so it makes no sense. OpenAI gets the IP plus $1B.

I'm actually curious, how do we know for a fact that this is the case?

Could you elaborate?

Do you mean to say they’ll never take the payment?

Re: The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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post #437

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Yeah, he’s a sociopath

He's taking from Disney and Microsoft though so I see no moral issues.

Who does Disney and Microsoft get their money from?

Groups like this aren’t singular entities.

Re: The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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post #42

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> Now the internet will be flooded by Disney character's videos How is Disney okay with this anyway? They've sent their lawyers after daycare centers who dared to paint a picture of a Disney character on their walls. Why are they suddenly going to ignore me prompting a video of Winnie the Pooh hitting the bong?

Disney, is well aware of the writing on the wall that copyright is going to continue to become increasingly harder to enforce, as generative ai distances itself from brute mimicry, and because infringers can generate new versions faster that takedown notices can be filed. Their alternative is to either be steamrolled, or leverage their IP while it has worth in order to latch on to the AI market. Plus, they give a sol…

I think this is a great take.

Re: The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm actually curious, how do we know for a fact that this is the case?

Could you elaborate? Do you mean to say they’ll never take the payment?

What are the terms? It is not at all clear from the announcement. "part of this three-year licensing agreement", it _could_ mean the license cost is $1 billion, which Disney in turn invests in OpenAI in return for equity, and they're calling it "investment" (that's what's hypothesized above, but I don't think we know). Disney surely gets something for the license other than the privilege of buying $1 billion in OpenAI stock at their most recent valuation price.

Re: The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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Walt Disney would be tossing and turning in his grave as his legacy is destroyed by these arseholes

Walt Disney has been turning in his grave for over 20 years since disney's fall from being a creative visionary to simply trying to regurgitate existing IP as a cash grab.

Re: The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

#448
With numbers like this, it feels like OpenAI is selling at this point the value of an IPO if everyone consolidates around OpenAI more than on the competitive value of its product.

For every extra company they get effectively exclusive usage with the more believable the strategy becomes. As it wouldn't be the first time that beating out competitors in enterprise distribution led to users making what they are used to using at work what they use personally.

Re: The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Now the internet will be flooded by Disney character's videos How is Disney okay with this anyway? They've sent their lawyers after daycare centers who dared to paint a picture of a Disney character on their walls. Why are they suddenly going to ignore me prompting a video of Winnie the Pooh hitting the bong?

As an aside: Winnie the Pooh is public domain, so he can do drugs if he wants. But he shouldn't wear a red shirt while he does.

Wait - where is that wrinkle from?

The modern books?

Re: The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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I never thought this could happen, especially after the "Ghibli scandal". OpenAI has pulled a majestic business move. They got to allow people to generate Disney characters without issue AND will give 1 billion dollars to OpenAI? Now the internet will be flooded by Disney character's videos, and since they don't have to pretend they didn't train on their intellectual property anymore I'm really curious to see where t…

> Now the internet will be flooded by Disney character's videos How is Disney okay with this anyway? They've sent their lawyers after daycare centers who dared to paint a picture of a Disney character on their walls. Why are they suddenly going to ignore me prompting a video of Winnie the Pooh hitting the bong?

They’re not. It will take them so long to negotiate the terms of using important IP that Sora will become obsolete.
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