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Goodbye to Sora

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Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by vunderba »

poemxo wrote: post #37

gpt-image-1.5 works decently for generating images compared to old Sora, but you pay per generation. It's possible that monthly flat rates were too much of a loss leader for OpenAI. I imagine the server side cost for generating video for Sora 2 is much higher as well.

You also have access to gpt-image-1.5 in the regular ChatGPT interface if you pay for a flat subscription - though I don't know how many images it limits you to per month.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by dawnerd »

cdrnsf wrote: post #40

I never understood the appeal or business promise of video slop, with or without Disney's blessing.

The only people I've seen post AI Disney content was in the Facebook groups for the parks / cruises. Before that it was whatever clipart they could find. There's just no market for it. No one is going to pay to make fake disney art.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by oro44 »

helsinkiandrew wrote: post #11

Google gets stick for closing down applications after a decade. But OpenAI’s strategy seems to be to throw sh*t at the wall to see what sticks, but no company will (should) use a tool that could disappear in 6 months.

Stating the obvious but spraying and praying is not a strategy

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by EA-3167 »

pm90 wrote: post #39

It feels like the bubble is starting to pop. A crisis of confidence is not something OAI can afford at this stage...

Nothing like an ill-considered war with global economic consequences to bring reality crashing back down on Silicon Valley; sometimes life throws a big old margin call your way and things break down.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by ex-aws-dude »

The thing that didn't make sense with this app: who would ever want to scroll only AI generated videos over a combined feed?

In practice people would just generate the videos with the app then post them on regular social media in which case OAI would not get the ad revenue for that

Its the age-old "your product is just a subset of another product"

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by ps06756 »

pm90 wrote: post #39

It feels like the bubble is starting to pop. A crisis of confidence is not something OAI can afford at this stage...

It's not because of the bubble. There is literally no advantage to generating slop videos. It looks cool for a while but no audience is going to consume such videos.

Any platform which focusses on AI generated videos is doomed.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by mrcwinn »

Smart move. No clear path to growing meaningful revenue mixed with very expensive inference costs is not a good mix ahead of an IPO --- oh and not to mention competitors in TikTok and Instagram that are doing just fine.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by miltonlost »

mrcwinn wrote: post #49

Smart move. No clear path to growing meaningful revenue mixed with very expensive inference costs is not a good mix ahead of an IPO --- oh and not to mention competitors in TikTok and Instagram that are doing just fine.

Is it a smart move? Or just plainly obvious when Sora was probably hemorraghing money and had no future? A smarter move would have not to make this horrible product that no one wanted in the first place

After placing my hand on the red-hot stove, aren't I super smart for now removing my hand?

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