If User-Generated AI Content Comes To Disney+, The Possibilities Are Exciting and Terrifying [IndieWire]

If User-Generated AI Content Comes To Disney+, The Possibilities Are Exciting and Terrifying [IndieWire]

 By Brian Welk

November 13, 2025| So much of the fear around artificial intelligence is that movie studios are going to use generative-AI to replace writers, directors, visual artists, and even actors and pump out entire films and shows with Sora 2 or other models. Cooler heads have had to prevail and show there are right ways about approaching generative-AI and doing so with an artist focus, insisting that jobs will evolve rather than be replaced and that there’s no replacing good storytelling.

But today on Disney’s earnings call, CEO Bob Iger gave a better hint about how conglomerates like his are really thinking about generative AI video, and it doesn’t have to do with whether or not “Zootopia 3” is going to look like a Coca-Cola or Toys ‘r Us ad.

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