I would say that the lawyers got a hold of this agreement between OpenAI and Disney and had a field day regarding copyright infringement and Liability laws "like people making x rated videos of Disney characters which you really might not be able to stop even if OpenAI tried to stop this there are ways that stuff could be pulled into another version of movie video making AI which could still be used for making x rated videos of Disney Stuff. Also, who's to stop people in other countries making this stuff because U.S. Patent law wouldn't reach them in half or more of the countries on earth. So, this would be a liability nightmare for both Disney and OpenAI. It sounds like a good idea until you seriously look at all the hacked versions of AI all over the world and likely now there are literally thousands of these.
So, I can see the problems just with hacked versions of AI alone. Then almost anyone can learn an AI Language like Python and create all kinds of stuff themselves worldwide too. The possibilities are endless here sort of like Iran downing a U.S. Predator Drone years ago and designing their own Shahed Series of drones which have a range of 1000 plus miles and now even Russia is making these things and sending them into Ukraine today and also sending them to Iran to use on all the Middle Eastern Countries presently.
AI is in it's Cowboy Days where everything is wild and completely out of control at present and I don't know if all this will ever settle down to where people can be comfortable with any of this long term.
For example, do you feel safe having a robot the size of your child around that is really strong that might beat up your kid or even beat up another kid in the family or neighbor in an odd situation? What if someone died? It's sort of like Waymo taxis everywhere often getting into trouble. These things are not perfect. What if one of them has a short in their chips and hurts or kills someone? I think you have to think this way to be safe enough around things like this. They aren't bad but they can sometimes short out and make mistakes and people could die just like with Waymo Taxis and automatic driving Cars in general.
There are no perfect answers to these questions and might never be. We don't live in a perfect world.
OpenAI shutting down Sora video-generating app
OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video-creation app
OpenAI will soon shut down its Sora AI video-generation app, the company said in a surprising announcement Tuesday.
"We’re saying goodbye to Sora," the company wrote in a post on X. "We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work."
The closure of the resource-intensive AI app comes ahead of an expected initial public stock offering from OpenAI in the coming months.
OpenAI has recently come under intense pressure from rival AI company Anthropic, whose AI systems have soared in popularity among leading businesses and software engineers. Anthropic, with its flagship Claude family of AI models, has eschewed products like image and video generation to instead focus scarce computational resources on text and code generation.
OpenAI's unveiling of Sora in 2024 rattled many in the entertainment industry, who quickly expressed concerns that the model's ability to easily and rapidly generate relatively high-quality video from text would displace human creators.
In September, OpenAI debuted a second-generation Sora model that created even higher-quality videos with audio capabilities and more accurate physics, which led to even more intense blowback and concern from Hollywood.
OpenAI paired the new model's launch with a standalone app, which was simply called Sora. The app became the most-downloaded in the iOS App Store’s Photo and Video category within a day of its release, with many users creating lifelike videos of popular characters such as Lara Croft, Mario and Pikachu. But the videos raised alarm bells from copyright and deepfake experts.
In December, the Walt Disney Co. surprised Hollywood after announcing that it had reached a three-year deal with OpenAI to bring many of its popular characters to Sora's artificial intelligence video generator. Disney also said it planned to make a $1 billion investment in OpenAI as part of the agreement.
Disney pledged to become a “major customer” of OpenAI, using its services to develop new products and experiences, including for its Disney+ streaming service.
In the wake of Tuesday's news, Disney’s deal with OpenAI is not proceeding, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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Disney "respect[s] OpenAI’s decision to exit the video generation business and to shift its priorities elsewhere," a spokesperson for the entertainment giant said.
"We appreciate the constructive collaboration between our teams and what we learned from it, and we will continue to engage with AI platforms to find new ways to meet fans where they are while responsibly embracing new technologies that respect IP and the rights of creators," the spokesperson said.
In recent weeks, top OpenAI executives have said that they are sharpening the company's focus, recognizing that it cannot do "everything at once," according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news.
Late last year, OpenAI’s head of Sora, Bill Peebles, announced limits on the number of videos users could generate due to the limited supply of computer chips available to power the video-generation model.
By shifting computing resources away from Sora, OpenAI could reallocate the computing chips to more lucrative coding, reasoning or text-generation tasks.
Just weeks ago, OpenAI announced that it had raised $110 billion in fresh funding, vaulting the company's total value to about $730 billion.
CORRECTION (March 24, 2026, 5:41 p.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated when OpenAI debuted its second-generation Sora model. It was in September, not October.
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