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Sora Update #1

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#111

> In particular, we'd like to acknowledge the remarkable creative output of Japan--we are struck by how deep the connection between users and Japanese content is! Translation from snake speech bs: We've been threatened by Japanese artists via their lawyers that unless we remove the "Ghibli" feature that earned us so much money, and others like it, we're going to get absolutely destroyed in court.

hey don't forget about nintendo too

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#113

Revenue sharing for AI generated videos of characters sounds completely insane. I can't tell if this is face saving or delusion.

As someone who is concerned about how artists are supposed to earn a living in a ecosystem where anyone can trivially copy any style effortlessly, it does sound better than the status quo?

The fact that LLMs are trained on humans data yet the same humans receive no benefits from it (cannot even use the weights for free, even if they unwillingly contributed to it existing), kind of sucks.

What alternative is there? Let companies freely slurp up people's work and give absolutely nothing back?

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#114
It is sad (and predictable, PR- and legal-wise) that there was no mention of the Ghibli Studio.

I would be actually moved if there was some genuine in the line of "We are sorry - we wanted to make a PR stunt, but we went to hard." and offered real $ for that. (Not that I believe it is going to happen, as GenAI does not like this kind of precedence.)

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#115
post #22

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.

Indeed. If you read between the lines that’s clearly it. And on that note can I add how much I truly despise sentences like this: > We are hearing from a lot of rightsholders who are very excited for this new kind of "interactive fan fiction" and think this new kind of engagement will accrue a lot of value to them, but want the ability to specify how their characters can be used (including not at all). To me this sen…

Exactly. I really hope Altman gets whats coming for him.

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post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you mind explaining? As a non native English speaker I may have missed some nuance.

The word content. Art would have been the appropriate term.

Disagree, it is content. The Japanese anime (referenced) is specifically made to be marketed and sold.

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post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The word content. Art would have been the appropriate term.

Disagree, it is content. The Japanese anime (referenced) is specifically made to be marketed and sold.

The involvement of money does not preclude a work from being considered art. Your claim is cynical and ahistorical.

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#118

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.

Update after more testing: looks like every popular video game prompt (even those not owned by Nintendo) triggers a Content Warning, and prompting "Italian video game plumber" didn't work either. Even indie games like Slay the Spire and Undertale got rejected. The only one that didn't trigger a "similarity to third party content" Content Violation was Cyberpunk 2077. Even content like Spongebob and Rick and Morty is…

I see a movie: The MoTrix, copyright blasting Soraddicts invent a new prompting language (or discover the one Altman seeded) as a way of evading Agents of the Entity, a © deity/program. Once unleashed, the world descends into HeroClix and ReadyPlayerOne slop simulation where original becomes indistinguishable from stolen.

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#119

I don't understand some parts of this, the writing doesn't seem to flow logically from one thought to another. > Second, we are going to have to somehow make money for video generation. People are generating much more than we expected per user, and a lot of videos are being generated for very small audiences. > We are going to try sharing some of this revenue with rightsholders who want their characters generated by…

"Sora Update #4: Through a partnership with Google, Meta and Snap Inc., you will be able to generate tasteful photos of the cute girl you saw on the bus. She will receive a compensation of $0.007 once she signs our universal content creators' agreement."

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#120

> In particular, we'd like to acknowledge the remarkable creative output of Japan--we are struck by how deep the connection between users and Japanese content is! Translation from snake speech bs: We've been threatened by Japanese artists via their lawyers that unless we remove the "Ghibli" feature that earned us so much money, and others like it, we're going to get absolutely destroyed in court.

My hunch is that openai used ghibli as the example in their earlier dall-e blog posts strategically because anime was earlier said by the PM not to be protected by copyright in training. OpenAI is always sneakier than most people give them credit for.
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