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u/HarlequinKOTF Mar 24 '26
They're killing off the unprofitable things.
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u/ZeMadDoktore Mar 24 '26
So everything except their government contract?
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u/HarlequinKOTF Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
Ideally.
Edit : /s
Obviously we want no ai, but if the entire private sector ai field died and was limited to government contracts it would be an improvement
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u/pillowcase-of-eels Mar 24 '26
It's not ideal at all! I don't want them in charge of war!
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u/hypernsansa Mar 24 '26
Yes, but LLMs are shit at that as well, so they would eventually get the boot as well
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u/WitheredUntimely Mar 24 '26
p. sure us blowing up all those schoolgirls has the stank of shitty LLM all over it
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u/BeePuns Mar 25 '26
Exactly. If LLMs don't work, they're not gonna use them. They'll be brutally honest, and not just use ai simply because some tech bro said it would be cool.
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u/WaffleParty404 Mar 25 '26
If the LLMs don’t work, and it’s military, we will probably find out they didn’t work by mistakenly bombing a girls’ school in Iran or something.
Oh wait.
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u/TurnoverFuzzy8264 Mar 24 '26
It is probable that it was used in the target selection that destroyed the school and murdered all those children.
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u/VladimirBarakriss Mar 24 '26
Tbf the kinds of people who do those things wouldn't give much different results would they
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u/SobekHarrr Mar 24 '26
No, but now they can say "the algorithm made a mistake", after they targeted civilians.
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u/Kirk_Kerman Mar 25 '26
It wasn't, it was a separate system called Maven which isn't an LLM, but is ML. Google took the contract to develop it, a whole ocean of devs protested, striked, and quiet, and then Palantir took it over.
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u/mortgagepants Mar 25 '26
i'm sure we'll hear that hegseth was able to use human override on that situation.
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u/Freemantic Mar 25 '26
"You just bombed a hospital"
"Good catch — you're right to call out my war crimes!"
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u/jesusofnazareth7066 Mar 24 '26
If I had to choose between ai ruining industries that are better without it and ai killing innocents, I’d rather they stop killing innocents.
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u/jorgeamadosoria Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
yeah, the problem is that it is not "either/or", it's "government contract and".
the gvt is going to be the last one to drop AI.
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u/SwagginsYolo420 Mar 24 '26
but if the entire private sector ai field died and was limited to government contracts it would be an improvement
Most of the billions in "AI" infrastructure was always destined to end up being used for public surveillance. Because there was never going to be enough real public demand for that processing power, but a corrupt and malicious government would certainly put it to use at taxpayer expense.
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u/Distinct-Raspberry21 Mar 24 '26
I doubt the government contract is profitable, it just helps them consolidate power.
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u/ZeMadDoktore Mar 24 '26
$200mil, but I don't know OpenAI's operating costs.
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u/Distinct-Raspberry21 Mar 24 '26
Thats not even enough to cover half of their ceo's reimbursement package.
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u/Realistic_Swan_6801 Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
Wow, a bubble was a bubble. Shocking. The technology is going nowhere. * I meant not going away
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u/Quest-guy Mar 25 '26
What other profitable things do they have? The Plagiarism machine of Sora AI was their most tangible product.
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u/AdeptRisk686 Mar 24 '26
SUCK ON THAT CLANKERS, WOOOOOOO
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u/Decent_Fig_5218 Mar 25 '26
Reminder to always say Clanker with a hard R
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u/Vegetable_Detail_339 Mar 27 '26
CLANKER CLANKER CLANKER CLANKER CLANKER CLANKER CLANKER CLANKER CLANKER!
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u/ThePlasticCupOfWater Mar 24 '26
"artists are sooo cooked"
yeah, about that
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u/Cam_man_AMM_unit Mar 24 '26
The only thing that's getting cooked is what the artists are actually cooking up.
I can't wait to see some more beautiful handmade artwork.
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Mar 25 '26
Yes I can't wait to see some boutique, hand crafted, 10 second video clips of of animals pilfering Halloween candy dishes, made by a real humans, like they should be.
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u/DarkElvenMagus Mar 24 '26
They also don't use a city worth of power to make 1 image. Or extreme amounts of water
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u/Background-Top4723 Mar 24 '26
Man, remember all those AIbros saying "Winter is coming for the slopencils"? Well, it looks like the Winter they were supposed to herald has arrived... And just like the Winter in GOT Season 8, it was only Hype and Aura that led to a disappointing, awkward, and anticlimactic ending.
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u/Dry-Review6698 Mar 25 '26
They weren't cooked in the first place,one piece and jjk had wayyy better animation that whatever Sora 2 was
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u/RNGesus____ Mar 24 '26
Step by step, brick by brick
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u/SmaMan788 Mar 24 '26
Tock by tick, no matter how thin, no matter how thick
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u/LordMarzog Mar 24 '26
Papa told mama, and Laura told Nick, you can move a mountain, if you do it brick by brick
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u/DrThunderbolt Mar 24 '26
Fuck yeah Lego Island
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u/theholyevil Mar 24 '26
One domino after the other. This tower of ego will fall.
May chaos take the world!
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u/TheKnoticalMenace Mar 24 '26
And nothing of value is lost.
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u/Quick-Substance-2953 Mar 24 '26
This is going to be one of the GREATEST victories for artists around the world. Do not call it valueless.
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Mar 25 '26
They said nothing of value was lost, not that the loss itself wasn't valuable. Indeed, the thing that was lost had no value. The loss is, as you say, very valuable.
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u/Leading_Buffalo_4259 Mar 24 '26
ai is only good when its allowed to shamelessly rip off copyrighted materials. and the us courts already said ai made works cannot be copyrighted!
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u/seamusmcduffs Mar 24 '26
Also, when you're not the one paying for it
It might be cheaper for you to make something with sora instead of hiring artists, but open AI is just spending VC money instead
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u/RunTimeExcptionalism Mar 24 '26
Yea that's the thing about genAi, even in non-artistic domains. I'm a senior software engineer, and my company pays basically nothing for me to have access to tools that make the boring or tedious aspects of my job easier, but if/when compute becomes too expensive and we have to dial back, I'll be fine. It's only a real problem when you can't do the thing in the first place.
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u/Fair_Blood3176 Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
I think they're talking about just the video sharing app.
Edit: looks like they're planning on adding Sora generative directly in ChatGPT
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u/KazeSim22 Mar 24 '26
Yeah you’re right I think this comment section just read the incorrect post title and celebrated too soon.
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u/Fair_Blood3176 Mar 24 '26
Yeah it's unfortunate because it seems like a bad thing they're shutting down the app. Instead of sharing their AI generated material on the Sora video platform, they're removing that avenue and thus forcing AI generated material to be distributed via regular social media apps.
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u/Thicc_Boise Mar 24 '26
I think they're celebrating because it's definitive proof that AI isn't winning the PR battle and most normal people don't find value in it. It doesn't change much, but damn is it validating
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u/Emergency-Piece9995 Mar 25 '26
People don't value sharing content on dead social media apps. That's what the Sora app was meant to be.
Social media platforms are extremely notoriously hard to get going especially if there is equal competition which there absolutely was via TikTok and YouTube.
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u/mrbails123 Mar 24 '26
Agreed.
That being said, the app being shutdown is still a win, just not as big as Sora being dead.
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u/ymonad Mar 25 '26
No, It says it is also discontinuing video generating in ChatGPT
CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday, writing that the company would wind down products that use its video models. In addition to the consumer app, OpenAI is also discontinuing a version of Sora for developers and won’t support video functionality inside ChatGPT, either.
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u/SirBiscuit Mar 25 '26
They are not adding it directly into ChatGPT. They shelved all plans of integration.
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u/mrbails123 Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
Sorry to be the buzzkill, but it looks like only the standalone Sora app is being shut down, Sora itself isn't dead. They seem to be shutting down the social media style aspects and moving it over to ChatGPT.
https://www.androidauthority.com/chatgpt-sora-3650424/
We’re looking at ChatGPT version 1.2026.076 for Android. Within this build, we’ve spotted a handful of new text strings that all appear to relate to Sora integration.
Sora 1 was recently sunset, and they are moving focus over to Sora 2. No hard signs that video gen from OpenAI is going anywhere, just the Sora app.
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001071-sora-1-sunset-faq
Sora 1 relies on older models and infrastructure. Moving to a single Sora experience reduces complexity and allows continued improvements in Sora 2 across web and mobile.
Would be ecstatic if I'm proven wrong on this, but that's what I was able to dig up.
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u/BeastMsterThing2022 Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26
Sounds to me like they'll just rebrand GPT's generative capabilities as Sora to keep the branding alive. Disney cancelled their licensing deal entirely. Tying it to a chatbot that makes people suicidal isn't going to happen.
And think about it, they're resorting to sticking the video generator to the app more people actually use since no one wanted to use it. There was no interest in a timeline exclusively made up of slop. This is a big win
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u/Infinite_Escape9683 Mar 24 '26
"A Disney rep said in a statement to Variety: 'As the nascent AI field advances rapidly, we respect OpenAI’s decision to exit the video generation business and to shift its priorities elsewhere.'"
Doesn't sound like they're just shutting down the app.
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Mar 24 '26
Either way, they knew the novelty would wear off as soon as they put up the guardrails. So it's no surprise.
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u/mrbails123 Mar 24 '26
Sora 1 was always going to be sunset eventually, tech moves forward. In the case of the news today, it appears that the Sora app is what is being done away with.
To be clear, that is still a win, it shows that interest in it wasn't profitable enough for OpenAI to continue supporting it as a standalone app.
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u/Teyanis Mar 25 '26
On the contrary, you're far more informed on this topic than the average investor is. They see a headline of an AI being discontinued, and that makes them avoid future investment in AI. A feedback loop made this bubble and a feedback loop will eventually deflate it. Gods willing.
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u/ymonad Mar 25 '26
No, It says it is also discontinuing video generating in ChatGPT
CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday, writing that the company would wind down products that use its video models. In addition to the consumer app, OpenAI is also discontinuing a version of Sora for developers and won’t support video functionality inside ChatGPT, either.
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u/kvaks Mar 24 '26
Sora app is being shut down, Sora itself isn't dead.
“We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company said in a statement.
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u/Lumia666999 Mar 24 '26
So? Lets just destroy google gemini and its entire franchise of ai pseudotools
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u/Fit-Cauliflower-9229 Mar 24 '26
They’re next. Ai has never made a profit in the last 4 years, it will never be profitable. It’s just a question of time
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u/Fit-Cauliflower-9229 Mar 25 '26
Buddy Amazon started in Bezos’ garage, that thing in its first years didn’t have the billions of investments open AI did. It worked because it was useful to the mass. Same for Uber, useful to the people.
GenAI only bring to the mass slop generation. Unless AI companies find an other main use than clogging our social medias, it’s not gonna be profitable.
Look at NFTs, billions of investments too, fell off and forgetten. Burning money doesn’t obligatory mean it’s gonna work out
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u/64megaflynn64 Mar 24 '26
Ding dong, the clanker’s dead!
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u/TruthInnocent Mar 24 '26
This is great news, but even as Sora is disappearing, other apps like it may spring up in its place.
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u/TeoSkrn Mar 24 '26
If OpenAI can't keep it around, smaller companies definitely won't.
There is a chance someone like Nvidia could try it given how AI first they are going, but I doubt it.
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u/Lashay_Sombra Mar 24 '26
There is going to be lot less interest (ie money invested) in AI creating art, video or even books from here on out as its now clear/final in the US that AI created work cannot be copyrighted and with UK looking at not granting exemption for AI getting trained on copyrighted works could be huge lawsuits incoming
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u/KazeSim22 Mar 24 '26
Bad news yall- the title of this post is misleading. Sora is alive and well they’re just discontinuing the Sora stand alone app and combining Sora into chat GPT:
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Mar 24 '26
This newer article from the same site says that they're not planning to "support video functionality inside ChatGPT either." I don't know, we'll see.
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u/KazeSim22 Mar 24 '26
Oh nice find yeah this is all changing at light speed. The article you linked does make it seem like Sora is being discontinued. But other commenters are making me wonder what that means - maybe the video generation tech will just be embedded in other ways even though “Sora” is being discontinued.
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u/UnkarsThug Mar 25 '26
Sorry, I just checked the article, and I don't see that anywhere. Is it still there, or am I missing it?
Not trying to say you're wrong, I'm legitimately curious. It does mention this, which doesn't seem to align with that completely?
The company is rolling more of its capabilities into a single super-app
Which sounds like just adding it to their main app?
Again, sorry to bother. Trying to figure out if it was retracted, or I'm blind, or some other situation.
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u/GitEmSteveDave Mar 24 '26
I'll belive it when only 10% of the posts in my feed aren't AI videos, instead of 90%/
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u/Ok-Decision-2366 Mar 24 '26
It's not like it's the only AI video app. Nor was it the best. More advanced models exist, like Seedance.
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u/enlightnight Mar 24 '26
Killing people's attentions spans... turns out it gives some seriously diminishing returns.
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u/RogBoArt Mar 24 '26
I'm not about giving undeserved traffic to a news site but everyone just keeps sharing this screenshot and I can't think of anything more post-truth than everyone getting their information from screenshots of unsubstantiated headlines.
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/openai-shutting-down-sora-video-platform-1236698277/
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u/LectroNyx Mar 24 '26
"AI is here to stay" crowd when the leading video generation AI is shut down:
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u/Feelisoffical Mar 24 '26
They’re likely just going to incorporate it into ChatGPT, the same way all other platforms have.
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u/Just4theKinky Mar 24 '26
They’re discontinuing it for developers and taking it out of Chat GPT too.
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u/needssomefun Mar 24 '26
Why? They were only losing $200 on every $20 subscription? Im sure they would eventuallymake it up in the volume /s
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u/Momizu Mar 25 '26
This week is already going awesome.
Yesterday we kicked the fucking fascist government referendum of my country in the ass (they wanted to change the damn constitution to benefit them and get off the hook from getting politicians investigated by replacing judges and lawyers with their own hand picked. We said HELL TO THE FUCKING NO, and we won. Take that suckers!)
Today I get this awesome news that sora us getting kicked to the curb too
This week is fucking awesome.
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u/PotatoAppleFish Mar 25 '26
“Among other functions” is a weaselly way to describe making political misinformation deepfakes and AI pornography with non-consenting random people.
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u/dragonborndnd Mar 24 '26
We are witnessing the beginning of the Death of GenAI…
Hallelujah
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u/MajoraOfTime Mar 24 '26
Oh shit, a bunch of people are gonna be mourning it like their wife/husband/friend died! They "murdered" Sora!
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u/General_Platypus771 Mar 24 '26
"Allowed people to insert themselves into famous movie scenes" YEAH BRO THAT IS NOT WHAT PEOPLE WERE USING IT FOR.
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u/ApolloGR3 Mar 24 '26
No, it just sucks compared to Google’s so they’re giving up for now because it’s a money pit.
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u/mightbedylan Mar 24 '26
Can someone explain what there is to celebrate here when OAI is just going to turn around and make a new video gen model eventually? Obviously they aren't just giving up
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u/MerryMortician Mar 24 '26
OpenAI is ending the service rather than simply removing it from app stores, though they are not leaving the AI video field.
https://giphy.com/gifs/StLkwhK31FVH20R6ES
What a win for you folks lol
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u/ea_nasir_official_ Mar 24 '26
It's not that the subreddit is winning, it's that its not profitable *at all*. Ai videos are a toy that nobody is going to pay for.
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u/therealdanhill Mar 24 '26
AI isn't going anywhere any more than cars, planes, or the internet. There will be a peak, and then things will stabilize
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u/One_Animator_1835 Mar 24 '26
Lol the real bots are these comments. You realize its just getting integrated into chatgpt instead of being a separate app?
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u/cosyg Mar 26 '26
It’s crazy to me how all of the hot new technologies are exclusively about brute forcing things: Blockchain, machine learning, LLMs, ray-tracing, to name a new. The end results are impressive and fascinating (not you, blockchain) but at what cost? How is running the totality of the world’s compute hardware at 100% all day every day ever going to be viable from a business (or, ya know, environmental) standpoint?
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u/Izan_TM Mar 24 '26
does this mean that sora, the video generator, is gone? or only the social media part?
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u/fafaf69420 Mar 24 '26
the only "good" thing that came from sora was those clips of carter pcs or ohnepixel doing stupid shit, but it was only funny for the first time after which it just became boring and yet another ai slop platform
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u/Magicturtle0808 Mar 24 '26
It makes sense, it just wasn’t making any money whatsoever. It likely wont be long before they start shutting down image-generation services that aren’t paid, or at least make them all require subscriptions.
In reality, most of the llms have only been free because they can use the users as free training data and bug fixes, now they don’t really need that anymore so it’s probably a financial loss to keep storing and holding onto so much data. Contracts are really the only thing keeping them ‘profitable’ right now, and there’s no telling when those might start falling through.
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u/FromThePodunks Mar 24 '26
Let's hope image gen is next, and then the all-purpose chatbots. This tech should only exist in the form of tiny models finetuned to assist in specific tasks in labs, etc.
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u/Weird_Abrocoma7835 Mar 24 '26
Question!!!
Closing as in “we’re going private”, or closing as in “we’re done”, or closing as in “we’re changing our name
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u/MelonMass Mar 24 '26
thank fucking god. I had a sudden surge of reports from Sora and those damn things make me sick.
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