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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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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but what was wrong with Zootopia? I thought that movie was quite excellent.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Zootopia is great, but its first draft was notoriously quite different and a lot darker, leaning more into the predator vs. prey theme.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's basically where the whole predator vs. prey theme came from in the first place. Zootopia's weak plot twist exists because Disney told them they couldn't have their dark story.