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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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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

On the other hand Andor is up there as one of the best shows ever created

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Andor could be a stand alone series it barely registers as star wars, to the point where some people think it was an adapted spy thriller script.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 7 points 1 week ago

That's how a lot of episodes of Star Trek worked. They would adapt SciFi short stories to the Star Trek universe. It's a great way to both get great stories and support authors. I don't think the "short story" publishing machines still run, unfortunately.

Heck, now that I think of it, there was actually a DS9 episode about a short story publishing company.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago

"As time goes by, it becomes clear that [Disney] only greenlit something as good as Andor by accident."

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