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OpenAI announces partnership with ESPN through Disney deal. Sora generated NFL games to be released next season

OpenAI announces partnership with ESPN through Disney deal. Sora generated NFL games to be released next season


SACRAMENTO -- Bob Iger, Sam Altman, and Roger Goodell and their respective executive suites sat in a room for hours earlier today hashing out the details of the future of AI generated sports. In a groundbreaking arrangement, players' likenesses, families, appearances in video games and more will be analyzed thoroughly as the seed data for future games.

This new style of games will rely on Agentic AI workflows. Each player will be an Agent. The ball will be an Agent. The cheerleaders will be Agents. The drunken sloppy fans yelling at their TV, or soon VR headsets, however will be all too real.

These behemoths of entertainment are not deaf to fans' requests. Home and away games will still exist, but in a more modern form. Games will be "played" in data centers located close to each home team's cities. Players' AI agents will be stored on hard drives and flown from city to city. Never doubt the bandwidth of an airplane flying with 50 terabytes of data across country.

Most interesting of all is the new partnership announced with DraftKings. Due to the non-deterministic nature of these AI generated games the outcomes are near random. This counts legally as gambling.

Parts of this deal are not ideal. The streamification of games will remain the same. Some games will be available through Sunday Ticket, Amazon will still stream Thursday Night Football. The worst part is that network television is cut out altogether except for holiday games.

The future is now, old man.

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