Sora’s shutdown is a sharp reminder of how overheated the AI hype cycle around Hollywood became. It frames OpenAI’s video ambitions, and Disney’s willingness to engage with them, as part of a rush to treat generative video as an industry-changing force before the business case, legal risks, and long-term strategy were really settled. The article suggests the collapse says as much about Sam Altman’s shifting priorities as it does about the entertainment industry’s fear of being left behind. The broader takeaway is that AI’s promised takeover of Hollywood now looks less inevitable and more like a volatile, fast-moving bet that even its biggest backers may abandon when the economics and risks change.

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