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.

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.

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.