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https://www.polygon.com/as-mickey-mouse-bows-to-the-ai-takeover-the-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-take-a-stand-against-it/>
"Last week, the news hit that Disney has struck a deal with OpenAI, the owners
of ChatGPT and Sora, to license over 200 hundred Disney-owned characters for
AI-generated videos. As the
BBC has reported, industry insiders are worried
about what Disney’s $1 billion endorsement of artificial intelligence means for
the future of Hollywood, as it's the first major studio to make such a move.
Yet, as Mickey Mouse seems content to accelerate AI’s oncoming judgement day,
another group of legacy characters are taking a katana-pointed stand in
opposition.
The lengthy-titled animated short
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2
– Lost in New Jersey is a seven-minute theatrical cartoon attached to
The
SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, which releases today in theaters. The
short features the same versions of the TMNT that appeared in 2023’s
critically-acclaimed, beautifully animated
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
Mutant Mayhem and sees the foursome Christmas shopping for their father,
Splinter. (If you’re wondering why the Ninja Turtles can be openly shopping in
public, it’s because they saved the city in the 2023 film and became heroes to
all of New York.)
As they’re shopping, our heroes see a commercial in a toy store window for
“Tubular Tortoise Karate Warriors,” a set of action figures clearly ripping off
their newfound in-universe fame, yet with the aesthetics of a bad
He-Man
knockoff. From there, the Turtles decide to confront the New Jersey-based toy
manufacturer, and that’s where the
real meaning of
Chrome Alone becomes
apparent."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
