Krasivanova Twig

So I think there's a lot of craftsmanship that goes into it

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I'm Krasivanova Twig from the Global Jigsaw podcast from the BBC, where we are talking Persian poetry in politics.

With its abundance of lovers and wine, Persian poetry sits uneasily with Iran's theocratic rulers.

If you're not familiar with the AI video generation tool Sora, it lets you put in a text prompt for pretty much any 10 second video clip that you can imagine.

Say a unicorn riding a dragon and it'll generate some pretty realistic looking video for you.

You can even, by uploading photos of you or your friends, get the AI to stitch likenesses of them into the clip too.

The problem it's had up till now is the videos most people want to make feature copyrighted characters, and this has led to threats and lawsuits from media giants.

But now Sora's owner, OpenAI, has struck a deal with Disney, the owner of some of the most iconic characters around.

Can I get a Chi-Hoo?

No, I can't.

Toy Story.

Disney's agreed to take a $1 billion stake in the company in exchange for OpenAI being able to use more than 200 of Disney's most famous characters in its content.

Alicia Cooper is a comedian and actress best known for the Oscar-winning film Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse.

I think it can be a good thing in the long run.

It's just frightening right now.

But the best thing we can do is educate ourselves as best we can to try to figure out all the possible revenue streams that can come from AI and just lean into it.

Our tech correspondent, Lily Jamali, has more.

Lily Jamali reporting.