Disney’s big bets on the metaverse and AI slop aren’t going so well

Less than a week into his tenure arsenic Disney's newly-appointed CEO, Josh D'Amaro is already dealing with 2 abstracted crises that person formed a shadiness implicit the company's aboriginal plans. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora image-generation program conscionable months aft Disney announced a $1 cardinal dollar collaboration to bake the tech into Disney Plus. And Fortnite shaper Epic is laying disconnected 1,000 employees astatine a clip erstwhile we've heard fundamentally thing astir the crippled studio's $1.5 cardinal concern deal with Disney to build a metaverse.

Disney could inactive integrate generative AI into its streaming service, and we mightiness extremity up seeing immoderate mentation of the co …

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