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Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption

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Re: Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arguably not the first time OAI has played fast and loose, didn't Altman preview a voice for the Live feature that was an obvious clone of Scarlet Johansson (a la Her ), and they immediately walked it back once she complained? The publicity they got for that stuck around...

They hired an actress that sounded like the AI in Her.

(who is played by Scarlett Johansson)

Re: Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption

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This 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…

AI is a business. Almost everyone putting it out is trying to exploit the influencer-driven attention economy and monetize their content. AI isn't difficult to profit from because it's too "democratic" - anyone can already participate without perfect lighting and a six figure ad deal most people do - it's difficult to profit from because it isn't compelling or interesting to most people.

Re: Sora, AI Bicycles, and Meta Disruption

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Writer fundamentally mistakes the evolution of communication as ascending through bottlenecks when in reality, our communication is bottlenecked at very indirect perception across units and formats, none of which provide good, sensible signal sharing. So Sora simply represents another lossy, calamitous descent into bottleneck upon bottleneck.
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