Michael Barbaro

It doesn't let us play the same games as each other.

We would love to be able to have our own puzzles.

I want to talk about the creative possibilities that AI presents.

And I want to begin with a mega deal that was announced just a couple of weeks ago between a major movie studio, Disney, and the biggest AI company, OpenAI.

They're wrapping their arms around each other.

And it's Disney clearly saying that the future of their brands, which are many, are going to have to live in the world of

user-generated artificial intelligence.

And I wonder how much that means that regular people like me and my two kids get to start playing with this suite of Disney characters, that Elsa is no longer some distant figure on screen, but, you know, someone that we can literally, like, help us do the dishes.

Well, what does it tell you that Disney, being as protective of its intellectual property, realized that this was the right direction?

So they might as well be compensated for it.

Right, they can control it.

Alisa, do you view the Disney Open AI deal through the prism that I'm somewhat provocatively putting out here, which is the democratization of filmmaking, short video production, and the ability of lots of regular people to play with these brands and use them without being sued by Disney?

Yeah.

On the animators, on the drawers.

Well, isn't the pace perhaps that they've set one where...

A company like Disney makes sure that they are going to be compensated at all for this stuff rather than it being just a vast, dark web of pirated use.

Right.

We might as well control this situation.

Alyssa, speaking of AI's creative potential...

I want to talk about something that you experienced in Las Vegas recently, arguably one of the biggest entertainment events happening right now in the world, which is The Wizard of Oz at Sphere.