alt Hacker News”Character.ai’s CEO Karandeep Anand is joining Disney in a newly created role as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Karan expects to be joined by members of Character’s technical team to build on Disney’s impressive technology capabilities to help connect fans worldwide with its beloved stories and characters in new and innovative ways.”
— https://blog.character.ai/the-next-chapter-of-entertainment-...
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These people are playing on a completely different league
The part that’s insane to me is his company ripped off Disney IP then Disney hires him saying how much he loves and respects Disney.
I'm imagining the horrors of character bots themed and named after popular disney characters at the expense of our youth. Dystopian stuff
Character.ai (business model Uber for AI psychosis) takes near 3 billion bag and files for bankruptcy in a move to getting up with the best practices of the big boys of entertainment, as ex character ai ceo moves to Disney (business model: Uber for tax-deductible cultural vandalism and EULA-enforced manslaughter).
Sets up the most vile company preying on lonely people, runs it into the ground - then gets hired to do the exact same thing for a bigger company. It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it
It would actually be super sad if Disney started using AI to create a significant part of their content - completely soulless