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On Thursday morning, Disney made two significant moves that indicate how the titanic entertainment brand will handle the artificial intelligence future—and they’re a bit confused, contradictory, and highly concerning.

First, the ChatGPT-maker OpenAI announced on its website it was earning a $1 billion equity investment from Disney, as part of a three-year licensing agreement that would bring “more than 200 animated, masked and creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars” to the visual-generation tools Sora and ChatGPT Images. (Ironically, the Silicon Valley firm’s Dall-E image generator, named in part after Disney’s iconic postapocalyptic tras

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