ChatGPT 5.2 is amazing (but I still use Gemini for coding), also Disney gave them a boatload of money ($1B)

Disney just did what everyone in Hollywood pretended they would never do.

They fed your childhood directly into the machine.

While Twitter argued about prompt hacks,
OpenAI quietly shipped GPT-5.2
and signed a deal that lets an AI spin new stories with Mickey, Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars
for a billion dollars of mouse money.

This is not “fun new feature” energy.
This is the content industrial complex rewiring itself in real time.

Think about the stack:

• GPT-5.2: smarter, longer memory, better at code, better at running multi step projects.

• Sora: text to video that already scares half of Hollywood.

• Disney IP: 200+ of the most recognizable characters on earth, now legally wired into generative video.

Models + distribution + immortal franchises.
In one move.

The old game was:
“Train on our stuff in the shadows, pretend it was fair use, and pray we do not sue.”

The new game is:
“Cut us a billion dollar check,
give us equity in your AI lab,
and we will schedule the apocalypse on Disney+.”

Here is why this week is a pivot point:

1. GPT-5.2 is not just another model.
   It is tuned to do actual work – spreadsheets, decks, long running tasks – the stuff that lives inside companies.
   That is OpenAI saying:
   “Chatbots were the onboarding funnel.
   Now we own the workflow.”

2. Disney is the first big studio to stop fighting the future and start monetizing it.
   They tried the lawsuits.
   Now they are selling official access to the vault.
   If this works, every other IP factory follows or dies.

3. Synthetic IP is now a business model, not a thought experiment.
   Kids will grow up watching AI mashups of characters that never existed on film.
   The “canon” becomes whatever the model and the license say it is today.

Everyone keeps asking:
“Will AI replace writers, designers, VFX artists?”

Wrong question.

The real question is:
“What happens when the people who own the characters
decide they do not need as many humans in the loop
to keep those characters alive and profitable?”

This is not about one more wave of layoffs.
It is about who owns culture when stories are generated on demand,
priced per token,
and infinitely A/B tested in the feed.

If you are a creator, here is the harsh truth:

• Competing against these models is suicide.

• Competing without these models is delusion.

• Competing inside these ecosystems means you are renting your future from a prompt box.

Your move is to get painfully specific:

• Niche audiences that Disney will never care about.

• Formats that a giant cannot touch without killing its brand.

• Real world experiences that do not compress into a 15 second Sora clip.

Everyone else will spend the next year arguing about ethics while cashing the checks.

Because this week made one thing brutally clear:

AI is not just eating the internet anymore.
It is coming for the stories you grew up on,
with the blessing of the people who made them.

And if you are still treating that like a “cool demo,”
you are already background scenery in someone else’s generated scene.