An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, Toys "R" Us announced that it had partnered with an ad agency called Native Foreign to create what it calls "the first-ever brand film using OpenAI's new text-to-video tool, Sora." OpenAI debuted Sora in February, but the video synthe...
Wait. What year is it?
Toy ‘R Us?
Slashdot?
Toy’s R Us is, interestingly, still huge in Asia Pacific. In Japan, Babies R Us rivals other major childcare suppliers.
Toy ‘R Us is alive and well in Canada too. There’s a Toy ‘R Us store 6 miles from Detroit in Windsor Ontario in Canada, as an example.
Honestly it’s a great publicity stunt. Not like people would give a fuck about toys r us otherwise.
come on, clicked through and auto logged in to slashdot…
but my last comment was (oh shit) 17 years ago