Sora users can legally make fan edits of themselves swimming next to Ariel, Disney’s mermaid celebrity, under a $1 billion deal that the entertainment giant announced yesterday with OpenAI.

Disney needed a hedge on the future of AI.

Yesterday, Disney announced an alliance with OpenAI that will allow over 200 of the company’s characters (including some from Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars) to be hoovered into the Sora video platform ...