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Sora Update #1

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Re: Sora Update #1

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Post by minimaxir »

nojs wrote: post #9
minimaxir wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sam says Sora 2 has to make money but there is no revenue model that can feasibly offset a $4-5 compute cost per video.

Where did you get that figure from?

It’s more a ballpark since exact numbers vary and OpenAI could be employing shenanigans to cut costs, but in comparison, Veo 3 which has similar quality 720p video costs $0.40/second for the user, and Sora’s videos are 10 seconds each. Although Veo 3 could cost more or less to Google than what is charged to the user.

I suspect OpenAI’s costs to be higher if anything since Google’s infra is more cost-efficient.

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Post by nvr219 »

nojs wrote: post #9
minimaxir wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sam says Sora 2 has to make money but there is no revenue model that can feasibly offset a $4-5 compute cost per video.

Where did you get that figure from?

It was revealed to them in a dream.

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Post by techblueberry »

minimaxir wrote: post #2

Yeah, Nintendo called, and faster than expected. > People are generating much more than we expected per user, and a lot of videos are being generated for very small audiences. What did OpenAI expect, really? They imposed no meaningful generation limits and and "very small audiences" is literally the point of an invite-only program.

I don’t understand, what do they mean very small audiences, am I not supposed to make video for myself?

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Post by minimaxir »

techblueberry wrote: post #13
minimaxir wrote: post #2

Yeah, Nintendo called, and faster than expected. > People are generating much more than we expected per user, and a lot of videos are being generated for very small audiences. What did OpenAI expect, really? They imposed no meaningful generation limits and and "very small audiences" is literally the point of an invite-only program.

I don’t understand, what do they mean very small audiences, am I not supposed to make video for myself?

OpenAI likely intended users to post every video they make to the public feed instead of just using the app as a free video generator. (i.e. Midjourney)

Of course, another reason that people don’t publish their generated videos is because they are bad. I may or may not be speaking from experience.

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Post by dgs_sgd »

minimaxir wrote: post #14
techblueberry wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t understand, what do they mean very small audiences, am I not supposed to make video for myself?

OpenAI likely intended users to post every video they make to the public feed instead of just using the app as a free video generator. (i.e. Midjourney) Of course, another reason that people don’t publish their generated videos is because they are bad. I may or may not be speaking from experience.

Can confirm.. I got access to the app yesterday and I have used it exclusively for making drafts and sending them to my friends without posting.

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Post by roxolotl »

geraldalewis wrote: post #3

> rightsholders

It’s telling to how society values copyright of different media that 4 years into people yelling about these being copyright violation machines the first time there’s been an emergency copyright update has been with video.

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Post by [deleted] »

minimaxir wrote: post #2

Yeah, Nintendo called, and faster than expected. > People are generating much more than we expected per user, and a lot of videos are being generated for very small audiences. What did OpenAI expect, really? They imposed no meaningful generation limits and and "very small audiences" is literally the point of an invite-only program.

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Post by piskov »

Broke: cure cancer, new physics, agi, take your jobs, what have you. Please give us a trillion.

Woke: AI slop tictoc to waste millions of human-hours.

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