BUTLERIAN JIHAD WHEN?

  • november@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Oh, so the slop generator gets to use Disney’s characters, but they’ll sue a daycare for painting Mickey Mouse on the wall. I see how it is.

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    Say what you want about Altman, he is a fantastic grifter. Instead of suing the shit out of his worthless hypebag bullshit machine “company”, they’re… paying… him… to license their characters…? These corporations have lost their goddamn minds for this snake oil

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      2 months ago

      Disney needs to write off a billion asap. That’s literally all I see. Invest in AI? You already lost money and you need a voided check.

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        And as a free bonus you get your characters in front of even more millions of impressionable faces than usual. They can tie their personal identity to your IP incrementally ever more. Hooray!

        yes /s

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      2 months ago

      At this point I genuinely believe OpenAI knows they’re doomed. They are putting all their effort into these massive deals, trying to tie themselves to as many other companies as they can until they are “too big to fail”. Then when they go bankrupt, trump won’t allow the stock market to crash, so the government will step in and pay everyone out. Maybe these other companies are just trying to get in on the grift while they can.

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      2 months ago

      I have read 0 facts about this, but I bet that the billion ‘investment’ is mostly just IP license values.

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    2 months ago

    Given Walt’s own relationship with his animators this is actually very on brand

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    2 months ago

    They might change their tune once the slop video generators are pumping out officially licensed scenes of Elsa getting gang banged.

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    2 months ago

    Disney is perhaps the one company on earth powerful enough to put AI companies on their place regarding all the copyright shit.
    How fucking naive of me to not realize they’d join up instead

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    2 months ago

    Just executives milking their company for as much money as they can. They don’t care for their brand. If it makes them money, they’ll totally let Disney slide into an AI content slop hell scape. Ruining the reputation and quality of their product, then bounce with their severance and bonuses when stocks start to fall. Just to go off and do it all over again with another company.

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      2 months ago

      What I don’t get is how are they even milking their IP? They are paying OpenAi to use their IP (in exchange for equity in an unprofitable company).

      I’d understand it better if Disney were getting a billion dollars.

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    2 months ago

    Now your kids can make their own completely unregulated Spider-Man and Elsa content at home

  • jlow (he / him)@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    I love how this should be the other way round (the slop company paying the content “owners”) but thanks to turbo capitalism the world get’s fucked up in new disgusting ways every day!