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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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236 points inesranzo | 11 comments | 11 Dec 25 14:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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giancarlostoro ◴[11 Dec 25 14:40 UTC] No.46231943[source]▶
This will not end well for Disney, there were certain historical characters removed from Sora 2 because people kept making racist videos that are hard to censor, and it became increasingly unhinged. This feels like another circular investment where Disney is hoping to make money back I'm sure. On the other hand, assuming they do the freemium stuff, I look forward to making a few videos of my daughters favorite Disney princesses "talking" to her.
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postalcoder ◴[11 Dec 25 15:08 UTC] No.46232316[source]▶
Disney is not the same company it was 20 years ago.

2025 Disney encourages children to gamble and gives Pat McAfee significant visibility.

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godzillabrennus ◴[11 Dec 25 15:19 UTC] No.46232438[source]▶
Disney is the same company as it was 20 years ago. In fact, it's the same company as it was 100 years ago. They only care about profit. They do just enough brand management to preserve the profit motive.
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1. caminante ◴[11 Dec 25 15:33 UTC] No.46232639{4}[source]▶
Amen. Blaming Disney for bad content is like blaming politicians.

Who asked for the content? Who elected the politicians?

**[Jiminy] crickets**

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2. AznHisoka ◴[11 Dec 25 15:37 UTC] No.46232705[source]▶
Garbage in, garbage out, as someone wise once said
3. armenarmen ◴[11 Dec 25 16:00 UTC] No.46233034[source]▶
Fwiw I think the all US presidents since Clinton were elected on a non interventionist/pacifist campaign. Blaming the voters when every one of them (less so with Biden) violated those promises is a bit unfair, if you still believe in democracy.
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4. dragonwriter ◴[11 Dec 25 16:13 UTC] No.46233213[source]▶
Almost every one of them was elected again, often by wider margins (the only exception losing to another one of them) after deatroying any illusion innthat direction you might argue was produced by their campaign positions, so I don't think you can absolved the American electorate here, even if one agrees that their campaign before taking office met your description.
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5. wat10000 ◴[11 Dec 25 17:24 UTC] No.46234241[source]▶
We can acknowledge that people are terrible, while also wanting people not to cater to the lowest common denominator.
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6. caminante ◴[11 Dec 25 18:52 UTC] No.46235411[source]▶
You appear to be lost.

Who said and where's the "false dichotomy" you allude to in the discussion above?

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7. wat10000 ◴[11 Dec 25 18:56 UTC] No.46235499[source]▶
Blaming the voters seems completely sensible when they reelected W in 2004. The man's Vice President was Dick freakin' Cheney. You can't seriously tell me the people voted for pacifism and got screwed over.
8. caminante ◴[11 Dec 25 19:02 UTC] No.46235604{3}[source]▶
The parent's claim is effortlessly debunked.

Bush sure wasn't anti-interventionist for the second term after entering the Iraq War 2.0. Even Obama campaigned to persist the "necessary" Afghanistan war.

9. wat10000 ◴[11 Dec 25 20:29 UTC] No.46236712{3}[source]▶
I read your comment as saying that we should blame the people who create the demand for Disney's products, and the voters who elect the politicians, instead of Disney and the politicians. Not so?
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10. eli_gottlieb ◴[11 Dec 25 20:40 UTC] No.46236846[source]▶
I don't recall George W. Bush ever actually promising to stay out of wars and interventions. It's been standard for the two parties to criticize each-other on grounds of doing interventionism badly or going too far towards one extreme regarding foreign policy, but nobody has run as a real pacifist or isolationist because they would lose in a landslide. It especially doesn't help that pacifism and isolationism are associated with activist fringes in both parties who often lean into crank theories or make friends publicly with adversarial states.
11. caminante ◴[11 Dec 25 21:56 UTC] No.46237764{4}[source]▶
No, comparative blame is fair for all parties.

The context is messy, but my comment's in the context of rejecting blame on Disney alone for "losing their way" when they have had the same way (read: $$$) as before and they're delivering products people want.