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A federal judge extended a temporary injunction on the “Cameo” brand, so OpenAI is renaming the feature, updating prompts, and rolling out stricter teen-safety guidance today.
Creators inside OpenAI’s Sora community were told Tuesday night to stop using the word “cameo.” The guidance followed a court hearing where a federal judge extended a temporary ban on the “Cameo” brand while considering a broader injunction, forcing OpenAI to scrub the term and relabel it as “character/reusable character” overnight…
The case, still under seal, stems from a talent-tech startup that argues OpenAI’s branding confuses users into thinking Sora’s AI stand-ins are tied to their marketplace, and the court’s decision to keep the freeze in place signals the plaintiff could win on the merits…
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Creators were told Tuesday night to stop saying “cameo” after a judge kept the injunction in place, so OpenAI scrubbed the term, renamed it “character/reusable character,” and pushed the stricter teen-safety spec.
Meta plans Mango for image/video generation as part of its superintelligence lab push.
Synthetic clips flood TikTok and Instagram even when warning labels stay visible.
Start/end frames plus reference characters let Dream Machine rebuild scenes while preserving on-set performances.
Target, Walmart, and Shopify push gift hunters to GPT-style concierges that handle inventory checks, promo codes, and returns.
Disney licenses 200+ characters to Sora, invests $1B in OpenAI, and adopts ChatGPT across the company.
A federal judge rejected Ross Intelligence’s fair-use defense after copying Westlaw headnotes to train its AI paralegal.
