The Walt Disney Company announced Thursday it will invest $1 billion in OpenAI after agreeing to allow users of the Sora video generation app to make videos with hundreds of copyrighted Disney characters. It’s a first-of-its kind move by a major studio, coming two years after Hollywood screenwriters and actors went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Responding to Disney’s deal, the Writers Guild of America wrote, “Companies including OpenAI have stolen vast libraries of works owned by the studios and created by WGA members and Hollywood labor to train their artificial intelligence systems. We have repeatedly called for the studios to take legal action to defend the valuable intellectual property we help to create.”