Hi, it’s Jamie, Senior Intern at the CDP Institute Department of the Obvious.  Today we have a report from the Content Marketing Institute that finds nearly half (46%) of writers and editors are worried that generative AI will reduce their income and almost as many (45%) think it will reduce the number of jobs in their field.  The only thing that’s not obvious is why 17% of respondents aren’t worried about AI at all.

It’s always obvious that leaders in every department overstate their importance.  The latest reminder comes from Jitterbit, which found that 75% of IT leaders say their department is the main driver of automation efforts while just 29% of marketing and human resources leaders agree.  Respondents say 51% of integration projects are managed by central IT compared with just 11% managed by business departments, but remember that the majority of respondents work in IT.

Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.