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Another day, another Disney controversy. House of Mouse may have hit a box office milestone with its $4 billion haul, but the giant is getting plenty of complaints.
The year 2025 was great for business, but it brought with it multiple controversies. Whether it’s Jimmy Fallon’s rant with Disney-owned channels suspending the talk show host, new price hikes or the current standoff with YouTube TV, Disney boss Bob Iger has made a new revelation about his AI plans. In a new post on X, Disney creator Dana Terrace criticized the decision and called for a boycott.
On November 13, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed during the company’s fourth quarter conference call that their innovations would include short-form user-generated content on Disney+ in the future.
“The other thing that we’re really excited about, and that AI is going to give us the ability to do, is to provide Disney+ users with a much more engaged experience, including the ability for them to create user-generated content and consume user-generated content – primarily in short form – from others,” Iger revealed.
He said Disney has had “productive conversations” with unnamed AI companies. » This comes months after a recent report revealed that Disney was considering digitally cloning Dwayne Johnson for the upcoming live-action Moana movie. During the same report, it was revealed that Tron: Ares was originally supposed to include an AI character, but abandoned this project because “the company could not risk bad publicity”.
To this, Terrace, who created the Disney Channel animated series The owl housewrote on X: “Unsubscribe from Disney+. Pirate Owl House. I don’t care. F**k gen AI.” The tweet was posted on November 14 and already has more than five million views, with 220,000 likes, 39,000 retweets and nearly 1,000 comments.
Terrace also worked as a writer on the hit animated series Gravity Fallsand directed the reboot series of Duck Tales.
Iger’s new update on discussions with various unnamed AI companies only reinforces the August report, which pointed out that one of the main reasons Disney is still unsure about using AI is because they “ultimately wouldn’t be able to claim ownership of every element of the film if parts of it were AI-generated.”
Disney’s openness to AI comes just days after Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine and many other A-list names agreed to lend their voices to machines to replicate them for different projects.