Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Got a story abo…

Google is cooperating with Disney‘s cease and desist, removing dozens of AI-generated videos featuring characters belonging to the century-old entertainment conglomerate. Following the Disney’s $1B deal with OpenAI for three-year licensing of several characters on Sora, Google has taken down…

UPDATED with SAG-AFTRA statement: SAG-AFTRA has followed UTA , CAA and the MPA in sounding the alarm at Sora 2 , the newest version of Open AI's video-generating app. It’s the latest, and most threatening to Hollywood, version of Sora. SAG-AFTRA President Sean Astin and National Executive…

As AI creators continue to press Hollywood to embrace its disruptive technological charms, top talent agency CAA has gone on the record with a fairly stern rebuke of OpenAI and its potential to lift content without compensating artists. It adds to the skepticism of labor guilds and media…

A group of artists reportedly has leaked early access to OpenAI’s as-yet-unreleased text-to-video AI model Sora, saying that the move is in protest of what the group claims is the company’s use of "unpaid R&D and PR." According to a report in The Verge (TechCrunch first reported on the alleged…

Some of the most important meetings in Hollywood history will take place in the coming week, as OpenAI hits Hollywood to show the potential of its “Sora” software to studios, talent agencies, and media executives. Bloomberg is reporting that OpenAI wants more filmmakers to become familiar with…

Tyler Perry has seen demonstrations of what AI can do. While he is astonished, he’s also sounding an alarm. Perry is already voting with his wallet on the subject. His plans for an $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio are on hold after seeing a demonstration of OpenAI’s text-to-video…