The first thing I saw this morning when I opened X was an AI-generated trailer for Avengers: Doomsday. Robert Downey Jr’s Doctor Doom stood in a shapeless void alongside Captain America and Reed Richards. It was obvious slop but it was also close in tone and feel of the last five years of Disney’s Marvel movies. As media empires consolidate, nostalgia intensifies, and AI tools spread, Disney’s blockbusters feel more like an excuse to slam recognizable characters together in a contextless morass.

So of course Disney has announced it signed a deal with OpenAI today that will soon allow fans to make their own officially licensed Disney slop using Sora 2. The house that mouse built, and which has been notoriously protective of its intellectual property, opened up the video generator, saw the videos featuring Nazi Spongebob and criminal Pikachu, and decided: We want in.

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  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Maybe in future you can select characters and main plotpoints and get a new movie when ever you like.

    Generated garbage can’t be any worse than abysmal shit they have been pushing out for few decades now. Pretty sure they can find morons willing to pay for it.

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      2 months ago

      If you can’t tell the difference in quality between slop and Oscar-winning art, then you’re making the AI bro argument for them.

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    2 months ago

    Disney investing in me not wanting anything to do with them, when they achieved that the minute they bought Star Wars. What a waste of good money.

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    2 months ago

    I’m really enjoying the headlines some journalists are finally starting to write. I don’t think we’ve fully moved on from access based, deferential journalism, but there are at least a lot of news sources finally starting to publish things with headlines and content that aren’t from the PR department of the covered news item.

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    2 months ago

    I don’t like Disney, they have been dead to me for a long time. And I don’t like that they got cozy with OpenAI.

    But if they had released a “disney studio” with AI that they trained on their own data, and let people make fan disney shit, I wouldnt really care that much. At some point, most people realize that even with the tools to make stuff, they still aren’t all that creative and get bored of it anyway.