Disney CEO Bob Iger alluded to “productive conversations” he’s having with unnamed AI companies — talks that he said could eventually let Disney+ subscribers generate their own content on the platform.

The entertainment exec made the revelation during the company’s fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings conference call this week, saying Disney+ is “in the midst of rolling out the biggest and the most significant changes — from a product perspective, from a technology perspective” since its launch in 2019, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Some of the changes Iger highlighted include “game-like features” and user-generated short-form content generated by AI.

“The other thing that we’re really excited about, that AI is going to give us the ability to do, is to provide users of Disney+ with a much more engaged experience,” the Disney CEO said.

Iger mentioned that “it’s obviously imperative for us to protect our (intellectual property) with this new technology.” 

Though no further details were given, these hints at a user-generated, AI-based future were enough to send social media into a frenzy, with most commenters agreeing it’s a very bad idea.

“Hey! so, we don’t want this! at all, actually! it’s a disgrace to Walt Disney and real animators & artists—also a super quick way to lose your entire fanbase,” one viral X comment said.

“On a serious note, this is a disgrace to the entire animation industry,” another account echoed.

“Imagine going on a years long losing streak at the box office, and thinking the answer was cheaply produced AI slop,” another said.

“User generated AI content on Disney+ is either going to be amazing or absolutely terrible. No middle ground on this one,” a third commenter predicted.

Earlier this year, Disney and Universal teamed up to sue the AI image generation firm Midjourney for what they described as copyright infringement and a “bottomless pit of plagiarism,” as The Daily Wire previously reported.  

The future of AI and how it’s being applied to the entertainment industry has been a hotly debated topic lately among everyone from company execs to actors, unions, and everyday consumers. 

WASHINGTON—If you’ve ever received a text message claiming to be from the United States Postal Service about an undelivered package — or from E-ZPass demanding payment for an unpaid toll — you may have been targeted by a Chinese phishing operation.

Lighthouse, a China-based Phishing-as-a-Service operation, has targeted over a million victims through its elaborate text message scam, Google alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The company says Lighthouse’s scheme “swindled innocent victims out of millions of dollars.”

“Defendants have affirmatively directed actions at the United States, including the Southern District of New York, by creating fake websites mimicking the New York City government website (nyc.gov) and New York E-ZPass website (e-zpassny.com), among many others, for use in these phishing schemes,” the complaint said.

According to the filing, the software used by the defendants allowed cybercriminals to send mass text messages to large numbers of victims simultaneously.

Google says it was also harmed by the misuse of its trademarks and services.

“In facilitating and executing these phishing campaigns, the Lighthouse Enterprise preys on the public trust in Google, a leader in the technology space, by misappropriating Google branding, including by using Google logos on fraudulent websites,” the complaint said.

Google’s logos were used on spoofed websites to trick victims into providing personal and financial information, according to the company.

The court this week granted Google a temporary restraining order against Lighthouse, which has since gone dark.

“This shutdown of Lighthouse’s operations is a win for everyone,” Google General Counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado told The Daily Wire. “We will continue to hold malicious scammers accountable and protect consumers.”

The company said it had devoted “substantial resources to investigate and combat the Lighthouse Enterprise’s criminal activity.”

An investigation by SECAlliance revealed that between July 2023 and October 2024, the platform was used to launch fake USPS phishing websites and said somewhere between 12.7 and 115 million credit cards were estimated to have been compromised across the nation.

The texts claim that the victims have an “undelivered package” and lead them to a fake website, which steals their information.

While the full scope of the enterprise remains unclear, the complaint said the Lighthouse Enterprise includes “several connected threat actor groups.”

Google’s efforts to fight cybercriminals don’t end there.

This year, the company launched new features, including using artificial intelligence to flag common scam messages.

The company is also announcing the endorsement of three bipartisan pieces of legislation targeting cyber scams.

This includes the Guarding Unprotected Aging Retirees from Deception (GUARD) Act, the Foreign Robocall Elimination Act, and the Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization (SCAM) Act.

“From the courtroom to the Capitol, we are taking action to stop these attacks. But this is a shared fight. While we take on criminal networks and advocate for stronger laws, we are also building smarter, AI-driven tools to help you spot and avoid these scams,” Prado said.

The company says it hopes to “make the digital world a much harder place for criminals to do business.”