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Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand (www.404media.co)
submitted 1 week ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 83 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

To be fair, Disney has been turning its characters into soulless slop way before it became a trend.

Remember their made for home video sequels?

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Land Before Time 53?

[–] protist@mander.xyz 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That was Universal. You're thinking of Aladdin 5

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 29 points 1 week ago

Aladdin IV: Jafar May Need Glasses.