When OpenAI released its new video generation model Sora 2 last week, users delighted in creating hyper-realistic clips inspired by real cartoons and video games, from South Park to Pokemon.

But the US tech giant is giving more power to the companies that hold the copyright for such characters to put a stop to these artificial intelligence copies, boss Sam Altman said.

OpenAI, which also runs ChatGPT, is facing many lawsuits over copyright infringements, including one major case with the New York Times.

The issue made headlines in March when a new ChatGPT image generator unleashed a flood of AI pictures in the style of Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli.

Less than a week after Sora 2 was released on October 1 -- with a TikTok-style app allowing users to insert themselves into AI-cr

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