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Post by 650REDHAIR »

ramesh31 wrote: post #30
postalcoder wrote: post #12

buried the lede: > As part of the agreement, Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI, and receive warrants to purchase additional equity. I say this with no snark or disdain: Sam has mastered the art of the flywheel. Re licensed ai videos, if anyone wants to see the perspective the C-suites are being sold on, check out this episode of Belloni's The Town, in which they discuss the vision for AI + IP…

>I say this with no snark or disdain: Sam has mastered the art of the flywheel. It's been his entire career. Guy has made billions of dollars from talking.

Kept failing upwards after Loopt.

Frustratingly impressive.

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Post by lmm »

DrewADesign wrote: post #409
luckydata wrote: post #399

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMHO the smart people saw the "Ghibli scandal" and thought "omg this is the feature of IP". You don't like the last Star Wars trilogy? Pay us a few hundred dollars and you can rewrite your own story, thank you very much this is where you put the credit card number. It was INEVITABLE.

I’m pretty sure people don’t want that for the same reason people buy books instead of writing things they want to read. It’s not just to save the effort— stories are good because they surprise, challenge, and inspire us. I think the idea of the “everyone can make the exact movies they want to see” thing conceptually makes sense at first blush, but I just don’t think people want something that matches their assumptio…

> It’s not just to save the effort— stories are good because they surprise, challenge, and inspire us.

Maybe, but that's the minority of demand. Most book sales are to people looking for something comfortable - think the near-infinite supply of practically interchangeable romance novels or detective stories.

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Post by smj-edison »

therealpygon wrote: post #395
Hamuko wrote: 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…

It'll be interesting to see whether OpenAI is able to enforce the guardrails that Disney would want...

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Post by moi2388 »

gekoxyz wrote: post #32

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…

Yes, we should abolish it. Great that you drew a shitty drawing, why would that mean I can’t draw a mouse anymore?

It’s archaic. The only thing we need now is identification. Oh, this is actually produced by Disney? Great. Oh, this is some Chinese knockoff? I might not want to consume it then.

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Post by rightbyte »

badc0ffee wrote: post #406
throw0101d wrote: post #292

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> And to say nothing of the shoddy quality of their TV shows. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse's lazy CG animation and unimaginative storytelling is shocking given Mickey is supposed to be their signature character. ≤4-year-olds do not care: there's bright colours and motion, and some semblance of story. The point is not to give some kind of lesson, but to distract/entertain (and probably release dopamine). See also Paw Patrol…

> See also Paw Patrol, Spidey Amazing Friends, PJ Masks, etc. These shows are honestly fine. They all depict kids working together as a team, solving problems, and navigating socializing with each other. (And in the case of Paw Patrol, some environmentalism. And a few terrible puns.) It's not like the Smurfs, Rocket Robin Hood, The Mighty Hercules, He-Man, Care Bears, etc. that I watched growing up were that much bet…

Ye strange to pick on Paw Patrol of all bad shows there are for kids. I think it is fine.

How about like the show with the antropomorphed airplanes delivering packets to kids.

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Post by squarefoot »

lolive wrote: post #467

Will ChatGPT generate the Star Wars scripts from now on? [Ahem… And can it make them interesting?]

AI will in a few years generate entire movies, including Star Wars ones. I can see at least one remake of A New Hope coming in the next years with all the original cast after their characteristics are licensed for use with AI. The huge amount of money saved makes just impossible for the studios to ignore the technology.

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Post by hgomersall »

noosphr wrote: post #393
Hamuko wrote: 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?

Dysneys characters are entering the public domain, they can either cash out now or not at all. Mickey mouse is now copyright free, pluto is in two weeks, then pretty much the whole roster by 2030 https://michelsonip.com/news/disney-characters-in-the-public...

Or they could make, you know, new stuff people want to watch?

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Post by drawfloat »

podgietaru wrote: post #120
giancarlostoro wrote: post #6

This will not end well for Disney, there were certain historical characters removed from Sora 2 because people kept making racist videos that are hard to censor, and it became increasingly unhinged. This feels like another circular investment where Disney is hoping to make money back I'm sure. On the other hand, assuming they do the freemium stuff, I look forward to making a few videos of my daughters favorite Disney…

I actually straight up don't think they give a shit anymore. I think decorum works in an environment where decorum is the norm, but we have entered a political moment where that is no longer the case. And I think that this kind of thing bleeds so heavily into culture that they no longer give a shit about having their characters next to it. They have enough plausible deniability; they did not create the content. I thi…

_In America_.

Disney is meant to be a global company. If offensive videos happen this will backfire in many regions.

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