OpenAI has signed its first main licensing deal to deliver well-known characters to life on its Sora video era software.
It kinds a part of a $1bn Disney funding in OpenAI, that can see the leisure agency roll out ChatGPT to its employees and develop its AI capabilities.
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The preliminary three-year licensing deal will permit Sora customers to generate and share movies based mostly on greater than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters.
These embody Mickey Mouse, Cinderella and Luke Skywalker.
Sora permits folks to rapidly create sensible clips based mostly merely on textual content prompts.
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Disney and OpenAI stated they had been dedicated to accountable use of AI amid the backlash from critics who’ve pointed to widespread misuse of generative AI within the social media area – a observe generally known as AI slop.
Some have depicted faux messages from celebrities and even used the lifeless.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated: “This settlement exhibits how AI corporations and inventive leaders can work collectively responsibly to advertise innovation that advantages society, respect the significance of creativity, and assist works attain huge new audiences.
His counterpart at Disney, Bob Iger, added that the partnership would “extend the reach of our storytelling through generative AI, while respecting and protecting creators and their works”.
As a part of the deal, some user-generated Sora movies shall be made accessible on the Disney+ streaming service.
