May the slop be with you?

The Walt Disney Company said Thursday it will invest $1 billion in OpenAI in a deal that will allow users to churn out AI videos with copyrighted characters from “Star Wars” and more through the artificial intelligence firm’s Sora app.

The announcement of the deal — which seems poised to flood the web with even more AI slop — came a day after Disney threated legal action against OpenAI’s rival, Google, over alleged copyright infringement on a “massive scale.”

The House of Mouse accused Google of using Disney videos and images both to develop the tech giant’s AI projects and to “commercially exploit and distribute copies of [Disney’s] protected works.”

Meanwhile, Disney is diving into the world of AI with the gusto of Scrooge McDuck wading in his vault of gol

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