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It is Monday, December 15. Many in Hollywood, including me on this very show, went pretty nuts this

past summer when Open AI introduced SORA II, its new AI text 2 video tool.

There were almost no copyright guardrails.

People could use the intellectual property freely.

I made a couple creepy videos with Wednesday Adam and Peter Griffin from Family Guy.

Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, first announced that copyright owners were going to have to opt out of SORA2 individually.

A huge middle finger. But after the freak out, he to have to opt out of SORA 2 individually, a huge middle finger.

But after the freak out, he changed that to opt in, and the characters mostly disappeared from SORA,

as did the users. Against that backdrop, it was pretty shocking to see the announcement last week that Disney, the leader of the Hollywood studios, home to thousands of copyrighted characters, is now jumping into bed with Open AI, investing a billion dollars in the company and signing a three-year deal to allow more than 200 characters to be added to the AI platform for use by fans.

That means Craig can finally make some sexy little mermaid videos or make a Yoda fighting buzz light ear to the death video.

There's some caveats, of course, no voices or human faces.

So they hope to avoid image and likeness issues, though the guilds are rightly suspicious.

And they say that guardrails are in place to protect against copyright abuses or the misuse of characters.

Not sure how that's going to work. If it's okay for Homer Simpson to give a Hitler speech

or those sexy videos of The Little Mermaid.

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