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OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform (variety.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44699253

This is clearly a sign that the product failed to draw in enough customers and its viability was overhyped.

Hopefully, it is the start of the AI bubble bursting.

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[–] 47 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

It was speculated each video cost like 5$ to generate, any wonder they are shutting it down when they can no longer see it generate "hype" for OpenAI. Sora was basically costly advertising for OpenAI, that relied on Sora clips going viral

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    Cost seems like the most likely explanation. Plus there are risks associated with video that don't necessarily come with text. But this machine runs on debt, and I have a weird feeling about this one. /puts on tinfoil hat. Possibly Disney privately soured on OpenAI, decided they'd rather do it in-house, and threatened a bunch of legal action over IP. Possibly OpenAI needs a bunch of compute for the massive domestic surveillance the Pentagon has probably tasked them with, and this was just the easiest way to get it. Possibly it's yet another marketing stunt, so when they come back with Sora 3, it makes more of a splash. /takes off tinfoil hat. Or they're just shedding dead weight before the IPO.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Disney execs would kill 2% of their audience, individually, with their teeth if they thought it meant they never had to pay an artist again. For my money it’s OpenAI that backed out because they’re not able to deliver on whatever horse shit story they sold Disney about what “AI” can do.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Damn. Makes me wish I had utilized the revolutionary power and i n f i n i t e potential of A . I . more responsibly while I had the chance.

    Had I known that it cost Sam $5 a pop I would have spend WAY much more time researching combination of random words to make the most terrifyingly depraved looking shit while cackling like a moronic chuckle fucker.

    You really don't know what you have until it's gone....sad.

    Edit: Oh wait, it's still up! There's still time for me to to use this incredible technology to create great things to add to humanity's zeitgeist!

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