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"Three-year deal lets users create AI videos of Mickey Mouse, Darth Vader, and more."

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/disney-invests-1-billion-in-openai-licenses-200-characters-for-ai-video-app-sora/

I'm sure that's going to take about 30 minutes before they begin to regret the videos coming out of it...

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It's a classic move by an established party. Use your momentum to add increased costs for compliance, increasing the entry costs and making it impossible for smaller and freer players to compete. It's away of pulling the ladder behind them. Openai didn't have to pay this, until they got big enough to have the money for it. Now everyone else will be expected to do so as well no matter how small they are.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh no won't someone think of the AI companies training with pirated data. They might now have to pay for their data

???

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

What the hell are you talking about, Jesse?