Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”
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The actor, filmmaker and studio owner is raising the alarm about the impact of the tech, saying, "I feel like everybody in the industry is running a hundred miles an hour to try and catch up, to try and put in guardrails."

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”::Tyler Perry is raising the alarm about the impact of OpenAI’s Sora on Hollywood.

  • Bob Robertson IX English
    1151·
    9 months ago

    Jobs are going to be lost

    And it is now a self-fulfilling prophesy because a lot of people just lost out on working on his studio expansion project.

    • grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.worldEnglish
      772·
      9 months ago

      This announcement is performative. Probably just a “good” reason to back out of something they didn’t want to do anymore, anyway. Otherwise there’s paper on the deal and they wouldn’t back out.

      • KevonLooney@lemm.eeEnglish
        181·
        9 months ago

        That’s true. If he really wanted to expand, he would just expand into AI filmmaking too. This sounds like a money problem, not a technology issue.

    • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      231·
      9 months ago

      Yep - those jobs are going to be lost because of Tyler Perry seeing an opportunity to reduce production costs, not because of AI. Nobody is forcing him to use AI. It’s just classic corporate greed where he is happy to trade [other people’s] jobs for more profit. Sure, AI is enabling him to do this, but it’s greed that’s guiding his decision making here.