Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption
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Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption
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Re: Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption
#2This might be controversial, but I genuinely love AI-generated “video slop”. Hear me out for a second: I’m utterly exhausted by influencers peddling their endless “buy this crap” content. Honestly, the AI slop often feels more creative, less salesy and refreshingly free of performative perfection.
But Meta knows AI slop poses a problem for their business model. When anyone can churn out engaging content without needing perfect lighting, a six-figure ad deal, or even a face or voice, there’s little incentive for users to stay locked into the influencer-driven attention economy that fuels Meta’s ad revenue. They don’t just want your attention, they want it monetized. And right now, AI slop is too democratic to profit from.
Re: Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption
#3This might be controversial, but I genuinely love AI-generated “video slop”. Hear me out for a second: I’m utterly exhausted by influencers peddling their endless “buy this crap” content. Honestly, the AI slop often feels more creative, less salesy and refreshingly free of performative perfection. But Meta knows AI slop poses a problem for their business model. When anyone can churn out engaging content without needi…
My friends and I have been having a blast coming up with hilarious situations to put ourselves in. Will it get old, maybe, but new features might keep it fresh.
Re: Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption
#4This might be controversial, but I genuinely love AI-generated “video slop”. Hear me out for a second: I’m utterly exhausted by influencers peddling their endless “buy this crap” content. Honestly, the AI slop often feels more creative, less salesy and refreshingly free of performative perfection. But Meta knows AI slop poses a problem for their business model. When anyone can churn out engaging content without needi…
I'm not sure I completely understand what you're saying.
Are people locked into the influencer economy because of the "polish" of the videos?
I feel like people are more locked into consumerism, and this is just the cheapest channel of delivery.
Won't much of the AI slop just become, or try to become the influencer itself?
Re: Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption
#5This might be controversial, but I genuinely love AI-generated “video slop”. Hear me out for a second: I’m utterly exhausted by influencers peddling their endless “buy this crap” content. Honestly, the AI slop often feels more creative, less salesy and refreshingly free of performative perfection. But Meta knows AI slop poses a problem for their business model. When anyone can churn out engaging content without needi…
Is your AI writing HN comments for you too now?
Re: Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption
#6This might be controversial, but I genuinely love AI-generated “video slop”. Hear me out for a second: I’m utterly exhausted by influencers peddling their endless “buy this crap” content. Honestly, the AI slop often feels more creative, less salesy and refreshingly free of performative perfection. But Meta knows AI slop poses a problem for their business model. When anyone can churn out engaging content without needi…
I'm not sure I completely understand what you're saying. Are people locked into the influencer economy because of the "polish" of the videos? I feel like people are more locked into consumerism, and this is just the cheapest channel of delivery. Won't much of the AI slop just become, or try to become the influencer itself?
Agreed. All content eventually optimizes for clicks -> monetization, which is typically dictated by the platforms' algorithms. That's why things end up looking the same over time as that's what people are creating content to optimize for.
Re: Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption
#7This might be controversial, but I genuinely love AI-generated “video slop”. Hear me out for a second: I’m utterly exhausted by influencers peddling their endless “buy this crap” content. Honestly, the AI slop often feels more creative, less salesy and refreshingly free of performative perfection. But Meta knows AI slop poses a problem for their business model. When anyone can churn out engaging content without needi…
It just hasn’t been optimized yet because it’s so new
Re: Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption
#8I spend way too much time on short videos on Instagram and TikTok. I've got Sora and I've tried a bunch of times and I'm just baffled by its success so far.
First of all I almost never use these video services with the sound on. I know I'm not the only one, because many services have captions on by default. Sora doesn't seem to have a solution for this yet.
Second, I have almost no desire to see videos with @Sama cameos. I get served a bunch of them every time. Along with MLK, Lincoln, Kennedy etc. @Sama isn't funny to me, and raping the likenesses of some of those figures doesn't really work for me.
Third, there's not enough creativity and range in the videos. I see way too many of the same videos over and over and over. The riffs on the 1980s/90s TV commercial with the kid opening the sucky Christmas present. Ok, maybe there's a small iota of humor once or twice, but not enough to sustain endless remixes of the same thing.
I also hate just about all Jim Carrey films (except maybe the Truman Show) but many other people seem to love them. Perhaps Sora just isn't for me.
Re: Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption
#9People love Sora in no small part because it lets them make videos with their favorite public figure/fictional character in them.
OpenAI knew that, played fast and loose with IP laws because… they wanted that bit of popularity to impress investors or something… then the lawyers got nervous and now they’re dialing it back down.
It’s a trick they can pull once but that’s it.
I suspect the more limited it inevitably becomes due to lawyers being lawyers, the more its popularity will wane.
Ironically enough, that’s why I think open-source models will still come out ahead in the long term. People really want to make videos with Pikachu in them.
Re: Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption
#10This might be controversial, but I genuinely love AI-generated “video slop”. Hear me out for a second: I’m utterly exhausted by influencers peddling their endless “buy this crap” content. Honestly, the AI slop often feels more creative, less salesy and refreshingly free of performative perfection. But Meta knows AI slop poses a problem for their business model. When anyone can churn out engaging content without needi…
I'm not sure I completely understand what you're saying. Are people locked into the influencer economy because of the "polish" of the videos? I feel like people are more locked into consumerism, and this is just the cheapest channel of delivery. Won't much of the AI slop just become, or try to become the influencer itself?
> Are people locked into the influencer economy because of the "polish" of the videos?
Yes. Influencers with big production and marketing budgets will usually create more content that has the "wow" factor. With AI people can add the same "wow" factor in their videos with little to no budget. This should slowly erode the value of a platform like Instagram as AI content gets better.