Disney Failed to Buy James Bond Franchise, Walked Away From Owning Twitter Hours Before the Deal Closed and Held Apple Merger Talks

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• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I found their full throated jump onto the OpenAI Sora boat particularly egregious.

  Here’s a company that could do machine learning right.

  They have:

  • Cash.

  • An ocean of high quality material they own; no need to steal to train.

  • Animators, editors, plenty of staff to help.

  • “Family safe” trust with a whole lot of people.

  They could have trained their own models from scratch, on modest hardware, to do stuff that’s actually neat, like supplement production or make interactive comics or something, yet…

  They used precisely none of that.

  They jumped on the Tech Bro train and licensed the gross abomination that was Sora for short video prompts?

  I literally do not get it.

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  • realcaseyrollins@hilariouschaos.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think that they just wanted to kill Sora, and I don’t particularly blame them.

    But another Sora will appear, so it’s like spending billions to kill one mob boss in an effort to end crime.

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    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They didn’t want to kill Sora. They wanted to license it.

      AFAIK Disney was the one with plans to use it extensively, but OpenAI is the one who decided to kill it.

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