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Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI in Major Deal That Boosts Sora In Hollywood
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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Dude has been my spiritual animal for the past year.
Noping out.
Here’s my response to this news:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Academy_Award%E2%80%93winning_films
There are plenty of great lists out there. Enjoy those films. Boycott AI slop.
Support independent media and guerilla film making.
Make your own movies.
Do not spend a dime on slop.
exactly, if they can make ai slop movies, I might as well just make my own and disregard their shit. at least it'll be curated to my own tastes lol
Aaand that's why this tech was always going to cannibalize Hollywood. Congratulations, studios! You've disrupted yourselves!
Yes!!
I think you’ve just convinced me to put my money where my mouth is. Ed Woods… here I come.
Here's my suggestion! https://www.filmsfatale.com/blog/2021/6/7/the-best-100-documentaries-of-all-time
Some amazing, amazing films in there. Look through the Criterion collection too
Pirate em! And release your movies for free (maybe not on youtube) and reject the commodification of art.
Presently Ken Burns’ AMERICAN REVOLUTION streams for free. Highly recommend.
That reminds me I still need to watch Emilia Perez so I can see what people are on about.
I see the mouse is still at it.
Ah another billion, that will do it!
Seriously, sora is impressive for what it does, 10 second text to speech models. You cannot make movies with text to speech. You will never get a consistent face, expression, anything. By definition they are unpredictable.
So you train some Loras to try to get a consistent face, but then the model only can make that face. So you can't have 2 people in the video.
So you get into advanced sectioning of frames and you generate then you replace person A with this face and person B with that face.
And then we haven't even gotten into backgrounds, consistent sets, or anything.
And they want to make a whole damn movie with it.
At this stage, it's literally easier to learn real film editing than it is to prompt engineer 1 minute of continuous footage.
1 billion ain't enough mouse.
Text to anything is the least version. You can perform a line yourself, out loud, with your human mouth, and then the model will make that sound like the voice you want.
Diffusion turns whatever you have into whatever you describe. It's powerful enough to work on noise. If you want even that to be consistent, just use the same noise, with a fixed seed. Otherwise - put in literally any more effort than asking nicely.
So you can’t have 2 people in the video.
... have y'all genuinely avoided seeing anything generated since 2022? Even the text-to-whatever models can handle "left guy" versus "right guy."
At this stage, it’s literally easier to learn real film editing than it is to prompt engineer 1 minute of continuous footage.
A clip I saw ages ago showed a guy walking through his backyard holding a cardboard tube like a rifle, and then the result of presumably typing 'monkey soldier walking through rainforest' was Wish.com Planet Of The Apes. But: same camera motions, same body language. This tech is CGI for dummies. You don't have to engineer shit, when you can nail down the animatic with amateurs. Or dolls.
You could apply this shot-by-shot to Who Killed Captain Alex, and it would look better than any Steven Seagal movie.
2 people where at least one looks like a specific person who was not trained in the original model. As soon as you add something like a Lora into the mix it will try to make everyone like that person.
So if I searched "AI-generated" and "crossover" on a Rule 34 site, it's just Superman and Marge Simpson. Right? Only the super popular characters that any model can pull off out-of-the-box. Due to totally insurmountable obstacles, there's no way I'm gonna find Loona from Helluva Boss doing the weird stuff with Sans Undertale.
... huh, that combo doesn't actually exist. Shame, it sounded hilarious. There's one of Loona and Toriel, though, with... Katia fucking Managan? Yeah come on, if some quest-thread webcomic character can show up at an orgy that's not just herself, I think we can say loras work fine for two people.
The deal isn't about making movies, at least for now. It's about allowing users on Disney + to make 10 second clips of them swinging a light saber at Darth vader or whatever
Honestly even stupider waste of money.
Not only a stupider app, but shouldn't Sora/OpenAI be paying Disney then?
Why though?
Same thing as it always is: MONEY.
Establishing that they need permission. Which is a massive own-goal from OpenAI.
There a a lot of "Billion"s being bandied around AI, and I feel like we have become a bit desensitized to it.
For $1 Billion, you could permanently and comfortably house 70,000 people.
(based on average US housing price and household size)
How do you plan to permanently and comfortable house 70,000 people for a 1 time payment of $14,285.71
so. kingdom hearts movie then?