Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot

Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• XLE@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I hope the real reason is that they’re running out of money to try new features, but the stated reason isn’t so bad either: that they aren’t yet able to surveil their users fast enough. Hearing Worldcoin failing to function is nice.

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  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it’s about video generation. They shut down Sora because it was burning too much money. Imagine how much a massive amount of porn videos would cost.

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    • Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This here. The dirty not-at-all-a-secret is that NONE of it is profitable. It is all a money-burning, water-wasting, RAM-market-sucking back hole.

      There is no road to profitability unless they somehow convince everyone to pay multiple thousands of dollars per year for subscriptions. At least that’s what I keep hearing; evidence otherwise with real references, I’m open to consider.

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      • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yep. I bet the reason they never actually closed the deal with Disney is that Disney discovered that shitty Sora CG cost more than their in house systems.

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think even the text prompts are unprofitable. Sam Altman said so once, even for paid plans. I wonder if they’re still in danger of bleeding themselves dry. One can dream.

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    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That was probably what sunk the Disney deal.

      Disney can already make shitty CG animation for basically nothing. What Sora did was offer a way of doing it without any real expertise, but Disney already had that. It was probably impossible for Sora to actually produce lower-tier Disney content for less than Disney is already able to do it for.

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  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, i think they are already doing it as a pass-through with some other company.

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• vaderaj@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And WAR, because government’s love to burn tax payers money on useless sh*t

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• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They are probably licensing some bullshit to someone else.

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