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[Bakuma1997]

*Mickey Mouse runs towards the screen*
Hi i'm Mickey Mouse
This is Disney Plus
I take shitty decision

Disney+ to Allow User-Generated Content Via AI

Disney CEO Bob Iger hinted at "productive conversations" with unnamed AI companies that would protect IP but add new features to the studio's flagship streaming service.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

That was my corpo decision
This is the end of my dignity
I hate you all

 

[Sorion]

they sued midjourney for training their data with disney properties, and yet they don't mind making content with similar technology, gotta love that hypocrisy

 

[VampireLord1024VampireLord1024's icon]

I saw this image posted the other day, so that's how I learned about this.

 

[Lt. Gunther Welkin]

 

[DJPlace]

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

So... They wanna corner the market on bizarrely off-character junk that can be created with nothing but a keyboard and a rough understanding of the English language? I love AI, but come on... They are openly giving the middle finger to all their artists and animators with this.

 

[BiriCross]

bruh.

 

[Luxfin]

To further add to the stupidity, Bob Iger went in and say that Netflix buying WB would "bad for the consumer because monopoly."
Hypocrisy wants that?

 

[Jeff]

When is Bob going to leave?

 

[Stare best girl]

and still people are bootlicking Disney because to Zootopia 2

 

[Frickinfrik]

Disney continues to be an awful company

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

Because there's not already enough AI slop being shoved our throats, thanks Disney

 

[ZEGA ZONIC]

Disney now has AI brainrot in their, well.... brains.

 

[hardcoretyphoon hardcoretyphoon]

These are the guys that actively lobbied to change US copyright law... and they're actively supporting a technology that can easily make a joke out of their IP?? Are they stupid??? Or maybe this giant corporation cares more about making money than they do about the integrity of their art

 

[JG5009]

I wish every isney executive a nice hit your knee with a table corner :]]]]]]

 

[bjork]

These are the guys that actively lobbied to change US copyright law... and they're actively supporting a technology that can easily make a joke out of their IP?? Are they stupid??? Or maybe this giant corporation cares more about making money than they do about the integrity of their art

This is what I found the most puzzling about this.

 

[Clippy]

Can't believe I get to use this.

I'd say this is kind of sad but the entirety of Disney's output in recent years has been sad so...

 

[mistymermaid]

These are the guys that actively lobbied to change US copyright law... and they're actively supporting a technology that can easily make a joke out of their IP?? Are they stupid??? Or maybe this giant corporation cares more about making money than they do about the integrity of their art

That's just it, there is no legal protection for AI generated material.
Under present law, content that was not created by a human cannot be copyrighted.

 

[Anoobis]

Elsa Spider-Man is going official?

 

[iamthemilkman]

The AI hellscape is just getting started. It'll dominate films and music in the future. Just wait until AI artists start winning awards and the acceptance speeches are AI generated videos.

 

[DJPlace]

well we least we got this mickey before the AI took his company over.

 

[ShinnAsukaYESTaylorSwiftNO]

As somebody who's personally anti-IP and neutral on AI, I cannot wait for the inevitable Great Hollywood Crash.

 

[Robert Robertson III]

*Mickey Mouse runs towards the screen*
Hi i'm Mickey Mouse
This is Disney Plus
I take shitty decision

Disney+ to Allow User-Generated Content Via AI

Disney CEO Bob Iger hinted at "productive conversations" with unnamed AI companies that would protect IP but add new features to the studio's flagship streaming service.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

That was my corpo decision
This is the end of my dignity
I hate you all

 

[mistymermaid]

The AI hellscape is just getting started. It'll dominate films and music in the future. Just wait until AI artists start winning awards and the acceptance speeches are AI generated videos.

Heh. We'll see how long until the compromised courts bend.

As it stands, any studio who'd release a total 100%-AI-made feature film is a complete idiot. How are they going to convince audiences to pay money to watch a movie that'd be entirely legal to pirate?

At least public domain movies on DVD/bluray have manufacturing, distribution, and authoring costs.

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

All criticism of Disney is valid, but it never fully encompasses how TERRIBLE of a company they truly are. So to be fully transparent:

Disney's Business model from 1971 to around 2012 was profits through merchandise & their theme parks.
Before this they were like every other studio, they needed external investment. Post 1971 Disney could take risks and be more flexible with their productions.

Then the MCU became a surprise decade long infinite money printer.

So Disney decided to stop fuelling the 40 year old eco system of: "Good films drive merch sales which fund good films" to buy everything with the intent of brute forcing corporate misguided projects not tied to their theme parks or legacy brands onto the public.
Disney has irreparably changed, and it is never going to go back to how they once operated.

Oh no, Disney is using AI? A soulless machine that steals something and and remixes them into something "new"?

Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm & 20th century Fox:

Disney is automating their existing business practice.