The studio giant will no longer move forward with its OpenAI investment, as the AI company exits the video generation business.
      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        That’s a shame, because KH2 is pretty widely regarded as the best in the series. If you stopped with Chain of Memories, I wouldn’t blame you. The gameplay for that one is definitely… Uhh… Divisive. But KH2 was when the series really hit its stride.

        • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          I thought the card-based combat and deck building in Chain of Memories was fun, and the PS2 remake was really well done imo. KH2 is good, but story-wise, I don’t think anything can top 358 days/2, though Birth By Sleep comes close, and I like the combat in BBS more than KH2.

          Skip re:Coded though, or just find a compilation of the cutscenes/story on YouTube. That one is ass

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I recently stopped working as a developer for Disney, and even if this deal is gone for using their IP in AI, they’re still really big on AI at the moment. From the C level there was a push for everyone to be using it as much as possible. Everyone needed to be showing how much they were integrating it into their workflows.

  • homes@piefed.worldBanned from communityEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    So, perhaps the AI bubble won’t pop.

    Maybe it’ll just slowly deflate like a rancid fart.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      I have a theory, that these techbros have became so savvy of bubbles, that they had plans to keep it going forever, or at least make it slowly die instead of crash at once.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 months ago

        I heard the big banks were trying something similar shortly before the '08 crash. And the Enron/Worldcomm crew right before 9/11.

        Certainly possible they’ve got an exit strategy lined up. But the problem is that they’re always just a little too greedy and too high on their own supply. During the '14 mini-recession, reinflating the bubble economy was a bipartisan goal. After the '20 COVID crash, there was broad consensus in cranking open the money hose and flooding the economy with cheap cash. '08, '14, and '20 set a big historical precedent for the “We’ll never let you fail” policies of the federal government. And so we’ve diluted a lot of the short term pain of economic contraction into the longer term pains of currency inflation.

        The enormous devastation to real physical capital all across these Mid-Eastern theocracies, combined with the socio-economic pressures of Climate Change induced heat waves, can and will push certain regions of the globe to a breaking point. At some point, you just don’t have anything to spend all those excess dollars on.

  • DraconicSun@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I can’t wait to see the stock market tomorrow morning. It’s gonna be carnage. Let the bodies hit the floor.

      • FEIN@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        shouldn’t it be red if a service is getting shut down? thats negative i assume

        • maplesaga@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Assumptions implies logic, thats where you went wrong. This is a QE fueled casino, the game of musical chairs only ends when a large bank goes insolvent.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Disney or sora really wasn’t that big of a deal in AI (due to alternatives). OpenAI is probably right to shift focus to coding. Disney is probably still going to go after AI, just different company.

    • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      Hopefully suno dies next. GenAI is garbage tech

      Ive been asking this for 4 years now, no one has given a good answer. What is this tech actually for??? Whats the use case??

      • rndmdsplyname@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        It’s for enabling wannabes. I’m a professional musician and I can tell you the only person who uses it is someone on the Suno payroll (Timbaland)

      • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 months ago

        A big, stupid magic trick: As these companies get desperate, expect someone — especially OpenAI — to try and show something “new and crazy” as a means of trying to turn the narrative. When or if this happens, look very carefully at what they say about the product’s availability, or what it can do, or who they show it to.

        Alternative scenario — Sora launches: If OpenAI gets desperate, it may move up the public launch of Sora, its generative video product. Doing so will only cause more problems — there isn’t a chance in hell that Sora is profitable, and I’m fairly sure it’s even more expensive to run than ChatGPT, and I imagine its visual inconsistencies and hallucinations would make for some entertaining content for YouTubers and tech reporters.

        It was a horseman, just not the part where they cancel it a few months later.

        To be fair to OpenAI, they are now saying “just use ChatGPT for video too”. Good chance that Disney cancelled them before they cancelled Sora