Yeah, i think they are already doing it as a pass-through with some other company.
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XLE@piefed.social 17 hours agoI 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.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 16 hours ago
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.
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.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 14 minutes ago
Sure, but I doubt RAM plays a big role in this.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 16 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.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Or because of that recent ruling that you can’t copyright AI generated images. If Disney can’t copyright the videos Sora produces, then it’s useless to them.
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.
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 16 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.