Jeffrey Katzenberg argues that AI will revolutionize creative industries by reducing animation production time and costs by up to 90%, comparing current resistance to historical technological disruptions like sound in film that initially displaced workers but ultimately expanded the art form and created new opportunities.
In an unsealed court filing in the New York Times v. OpenAI copyright lawsuit, Microsoft and OpenAI executives admitted that large language models were trained on stolen content and have created a 'doom loop' destroying the web and the livelihoods of content creators. Internal documents describe the practice as 'an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions' and 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' with AI products cannibalizing traffic from the sources they were trained on.