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OpenAI Backs Critterz, an AI-Made Animated Feature Film
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-backs-ai-made-animated-feature-film-389f70b0
Film, called ‘Critterz,’ aims to debut at Cannes Film Festival and will leverage startup’s AI tools and resources.
“Critterz,” about forest creatures who go on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger, is the brainchild of Chad Nelson, a creative specialist at OpenAI. Nelson started sketching out the characters three years ago while trying to make a short film with what was then OpenAI’s new DALL-E image-generation tool.
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AI and the Law: Anthropic to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Book Piracy Class Action Lawsuit
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/anthropic-class-action-settlement-billion-1236509571
The settlement amounts to about $3,000 per book and is believed to be the largest ever recovery in a U.S. copyright case, according to the plaintiffs’ attorneys.
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Sir Peter Jackson’s Wētā FX records $140m loss in two years, amid staff layoffs
https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/360813799/weta-fx-posts-59m-loss-amid-industry-headwinds
Wētā FX, Sir Peter Jackson’s largest business has posted a $59.3 million loss for the year to March 31, an improvement on an $83m loss last year.
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Meta is partnering with Midjourney and will license its technology for ‘future models and products’
There’s been no statements as to when Midjourney’s technology will start showing up in Meta’s products, or to what degree it will be baked into the company’s AI strategy.
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AI 2025 – The house of cards
The gap is covered by venture capitals.
Three possible futures:
Price hikes – users pay $1,000+/year (will they?)
Cost collapse – cheaper GPUs, efficient models, decentralized compute.
Implosion – AI apps and LLMs vanish in a mass shakeout. -
AI and the Law – Netflix : Using Generative AI in Content Production
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/netflix-generative-ai-use-guidelines-253300.html
- Temporary Use: AI-generated material can be used for ideation, visualization, and exploration—but is currently considered temporary and not part of final deliverables.
- Ownership & Rights: All outputs must be carefully reviewed to ensure rights, copyright, and usage are properly cleared before integrating into production.
- Transparency: Productions are expected to document and disclose how generative AI is used.
- Human Oversight: AI tools are meant to support creative teams, not replace them—final decision-making rests with human creators.
- Security & Compliance: Any use of AI tools must align with Netflix’s security protocols and protect confidential production material.
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AI and the Law – 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 (𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆) 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲
Many users assume shared conversations are only seen by friends or colleagues — but when you use OpenAI’s share feature, those chats get now indexed by search engines like Google.
Meaning: your “private” AI prompts could end up very public. This is called Google dorking — and it’s shockingly effective.
Over 70,000 chats are now publicly viewable. Some are harmless.
Others? They might expose sensitive strategies, internal docs, product plans, even company secrets.
OpenAI currently does not block indexing. So if you’ve ever shared something thinking it’s “just a link” — it might now be searchable by anyone. You can even build a bot to crawl and analyze these.
Welcome to the new visibility layer of AI. I can’t say I am surprised…
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AI and the Law – Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/11/disney-nbcu-midjourney-copyright
Why it matters: It’s the first legal action that major Hollywood studios have taken against a generative AI company.
The complaint, filed in a U.S. District Court in central California, accuses Midjourney of both direct and secondary copyright infringement by using the studios’ intellectual property to train their large language model and by displaying AI-generated images of their copyrighted characters.
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Runway Partners with AMC Networks Across Marketing and TV Development
https://runwayml.com/news/runway-amc-partnership
Runway and AMC Networks, the international entertainment company known for popular and award-winning titles including MAD MEN, BREAKING BAD, BETTER CALL SAUL, THE WALKING DEAD and ANNE RICE’S INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, are partnering to incorporate Runway’s AI models and tools in AMC Networks’ marketing and TV development processes.
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Jeffrey Ian Wilson – The Hidden Risks of Using ChatGPT and Anonymous AI Tools in non-secured Confidential Workflows Outside Proper Production Pipelines
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hidden-risks-using-chatgpt-anonymous-ai-tools-workflows-wilson-govcc
What You Can Do Today
If you’re serious about protecting your IP, client relationships, and professional credibility, you need to stop treating generative AI tools like consumer-grade apps. This isn’t about fear, it’s about operational discipline. Below are immediate steps you can take to reduce your exposure and stay in control of your creative pipeline.
- Use ChatGPT via the API, not the public app, for any sensitive data.
- Isolate ComfyUI to a sandboxed VM, Docker container, or offline machine.
- Audit every custom node, don’t blindly trust GitHub links or ComfyUI workflows
- Educate your team, a single mistake can leak an unreleased game asset, a feature film script, or trade secrets.
- Open source does not mean secure.
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Sony Pictures’ VFX Firm Pixomondo to Open New Volume Stage In Vancouver
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/pixomondo-led-volume-stage-1236209813/
The new Vancouver virtual stage will measure 50 feet in diameter, 23 feet tall, and will have a 14 foot deep semi-circle to surround actors and physical sets with a digital environment. There’s also two movable wild walls 20 feet wide and 16.5 feet tall and mounted on a ground-hover system to allow quick repositioning, especially for capturing car driving scenes.
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Disney Hacker Admits Using Malware-Laced AI Art App to Achieve Breach
https://cyberinsider.com/disney-hacker-admits-using-malware-laced-ai-art-app-to-achieve-breach/
A 25-year-old Santa Clarita man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking a Disney employee’s personal computer, stealing login credentials, and exfiltrating 1.1 terabytes of confidential data from internal Slack channels.
The charges stem from a targeted cyberattack carried out in the spring and summer of 2024 that compromised Disney’s internal communications and led to the public leak of sensitive corporate data.
“Kramer, operating under the alias “NullBulge,” created and distributed a malicious program disguised as an AI art generation tool. He uploaded this trojanized application to GitHub and other public repositories in early 2024, enticing users interested in generative AI. At least three victims, including one Disney employee, downloaded the program. Once executed, the software provided Kramer with remote access to the victims’ machines and stored credentials.”
After infiltrating the employee’s personal system, Kramer accessed corporate Slack credentials to infiltrate Disney’s internal Slack workspace and downloaded around 1.1 terabytes of data from nearly 10,000 channels including unreleased media projects, internal code, links to APIs, and credentials for internal web services.
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President Trump Says He Will Implement 100% Tariffs on Films Produced Outside the U.S.
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/trump-tariff-foreign-film-national-security-1236386566
Jon Voight has presented his Hollywood rescue plan…
While President Trump dropped his 100% foreign film tariff bombshell over the weekend, Oscar-winner Jon Voight was already at Mar-a-Lago pitching his industry revival plan. The presidential “Hollywood ambassador” has been making the rounds with unions, studios, and officials to craft his proposal—and now we’ve got the details:
•For filmmakers, Voight proposes stackable federal tax credits (10-20%) on top of existing state incentives. His plan would expand Section 181 provisions, allowing producers to write off 100% of costs in the first year. Instead of blanket tariffs, he suggests targeted penalties of 120% on productions that could have filmed in America but chose foreign locations just for tax incentives.
•For infrastructure, the plan includes tax credits for building or renovating theaters, studios, and post-production facilities. It would create job training programs to ensure Americans have skills for high-paying industry positions, with special emphasis on developing production capabilities in heartland states.
•For streaming platforms, Voight wants to revive regulations that once prevented networks from owning the shows they aired. Streamers would need to pay producers premiums (25-40% of production costs) for exclusive licenses, return more ownership rights after license periods end, and share copyrights 50/50 with content creators.
•For international work, the plan proposes co-production treaties with countries like the UK to enable collaboration without triggering tariffs. It includes exemptions from penalties for legitimate international partnerships that truly require foreign locations. -
TED 2025 Rob Bredow – Artist-Driven Innovation in the Age of AI
https://robbredow.com/2025/05/ted-artist-driven-innovation/
https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_bredow_star_wars_changed_visual_effects_ai_is_doing_it_again
Rob Bredow speaks at SESSION 3 at TED 2025: Humanity Reimagined. April 7-11, 2025, Vancouver, BC. Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED
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