Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot

Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure, but I doubt RAM plays a big role in this.

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    nVidia had announced that instead of 100 billion for nothing to OpenAI that they were doing 30 billion for stake, and said they were probably not going to keep giving these ‘halo’ AI companies money after this.

    I also saw a report that banks were starting to get a bit more stingy with money to the same companies.

    I think that while there’s still plenty of money coming in still, it does seem like the ‘take our unlimited cash just because you have AI in your name’ phase is wearing out and they actually have to try to convince people now.

    Which is a pretty big problem for them, as despite their brand recognition they aren’t really seen as the ‘leader’ in the AI space on any particular front.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it’s that they are preparing for IPO, which means opening their books and being an attractive investment.

    Sora was killed because it haemorrhaged cash for each generation. Investors wouldn’t be comfortable with that still running in the books.

    This is killed because a respectable investment does sell porn.

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• vaderaj@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They are probably licensing some bullshit to someone else.

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