Disney just announced yesterday that they were investing a billion dollars into OpenAI. I have a hard time believing any AI company is respecting copyright because infringement is their business model. This sort of reads like "the competition's product is worse than ours."
It’s hard to know who to root for in a battle between giant AI firms and equally giant entertainment companies.
You're allowed to root for nobody. Sometimes everyone sucks.
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SCmSTR - 2hr
Wait a minute, maybe Disney's on to something..
Yeah, sure, they always take what isn't theirs to begin with, copyright it, and sue the bejesus off of anybody that crosses them...
But what if this backfires, and Disney brings a lawyer to a lawyer fight and causes a wave of actual legal discovery, here? Like a weird accidental poison pill for the AI industry.
LET ME HOPE
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db0 - 4hr
The inevitable follow-up of their OpenAI deal. Make a deal with a big GenAI company to get precedent for them licensing your copyrights, then go against everyone else who doesn't have such a deal. Now it's up to see who bribed Trump the most.
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Triumph - 3hr
I mean, that's exactly how those deals work.
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CerebralHawks - 2hr
I feel like once they open that door, they shouldn't get to decide who walks through it. Either they support AI using their characters, or they don't. I mean, they're certainly well within their rights to say none of them can do it, and I would support that if that was the way they went, but no, they said one company could use their IP to train its data. It's a rat race. They're all going to use it.
along_the_road in technology @beehaw.org
Disney says Google AI infringes copyright “on a massive scale”
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/12/disney-says-google-ai-infringes-copyright-on-a-massive-scale/Disney just announced yesterday that they were investing a billion dollars into OpenAI. I have a hard time believing any AI company is respecting copyright because infringement is their business model. This sort of reads like "the competition's product is worse than ours."
You're allowed to root for nobody. Sometimes everyone sucks.
Wait a minute, maybe Disney's on to something..
Yeah, sure, they always take what isn't theirs to begin with, copyright it, and sue the bejesus off of anybody that crosses them...
But what if this backfires, and Disney brings a lawyer to a lawyer fight and causes a wave of actual legal discovery, here? Like a weird accidental poison pill for the AI industry.
LET ME HOPE
The inevitable follow-up of their OpenAI deal. Make a deal with a big GenAI company to get precedent for them licensing your copyrights, then go against everyone else who doesn't have such a deal. Now it's up to see who bribed Trump the most.
I mean, that's exactly how those deals work.
I feel like once they open that door, they shouldn't get to decide who walks through it. Either they support AI using their characters, or they don't. I mean, they're certainly well within their rights to say none of them can do it, and I would support that if that was the way they went, but no, they said one company could use their IP to train its data. It's a rat race. They're all going to use it.