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The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora

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236 points inesranzo | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 14:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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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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jeffwask ◴[11 Dec 25 15:44 UTC] No.46232795{4}[source]▶
To be fair to Walt Disney, he cared about a lot beyond profit and believed in advancing technology and society in a way modern corporate leaders absolutely do not. He was no saint but he's a far cry from modern CEO's.
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godzillabrennus ◴[11 Dec 25 15:50 UTC] No.46232874{5}[source]▶
To be fair, Walt Disney partnered with his brother Roy Disney, and they co-founded and ran the Walt Disney Company (and the iterations before it). These iterations of the Disney Company were never just Walt Disney.
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1. jeffwask ◴[11 Dec 25 16:19 UTC] No.46233299{6}[source]▶
Yes, but if you watch any documentaries about early Disney and listen to those people talk everything was about Walt's vision even after death they would ask "What would Walt want or do?" He was a figure whose influence and vision is on another level in American History (both good and bad) and early Disney was Walt no matter who was in charge on paper or even if Walt was still alive. That only started to change under Eisner. Roy was the one who kept Walt grounded so ambition shrunk but they stayed the course Walt set.