Anonymous #4 5d

Not fake, the news dropped a few hours ago. Not only is Sora getting canned, but Disney backed out of their billion dollar deal with OpenAI to make AI slop of their IP

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Anonymous OP 4d

It’s true! Analyst estimates suggested OpenAI could be spending up to ~$15 million per day on Sora compute, which would be billions annually at scale. At the same time, OpenAI admitted usage was much higher than expected and that the economics were “completely unsustainable” under the original pricing model. Video generation is especially costly because each clip requires massive GPU compute, and longer videos increase cost non-linearly. So the issue wasn’t demand it was that demand was too high

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Anonymous OP 4d

This is only the beginning sadly.

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Anonymous #4 4d

The actual numbers don’t agree with the claim that “the demand for Sora was too high.” It saw a successful launch and then nothing but a decrease in adoption after that. And logically, why would OpenAI shut down one of their products for being “too in-demand?” Doesn’t make sense. It was costly to maintain, no one used it, and created nothing but slop. OpenAI has already stated that they are moving away from the AI video generation business to focus more on code, like Anthropic is.

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Anonymous #9 4d

Agreed, a deal that huge falling through is going to have consequences. The fact that AI image and video generation is both insanely expensive AND that audiences already tend to dislike the use of gen AI in their art and entertainment shows that something is shifting for sure.

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Anonymous OP 4d

It costs too much to run, that’s why “too in-demand” is so hurtful to their business model. They would need to charge the average consumer thousands of dollars for low tier subscriptions to maybe break even

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Anonymous #10 4d

My point is that the so-called “demand” for Sora didn’t even meet OpenAI’s own expectations post-launch, as its userbase was consistently shrinking by huge amounts every month. And even with fewer users than they hoped, OpenAI was still hemorrhaging money on it. By comparison, ChatGPT is also notoriously unprofitable for the company, but its userbase is vast enough to justify the continued support of it in hopes of becoming truly profitable in the future. This could not have been said for Sora.

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Anonymous #10 4d

In short, saying Sora was “too in-demand” implies that it had droves of people lining up to use it, and maintaining it was too costly. Instead, hardly anyone used it in comparison to OpenAI’s other services, AND it was still too costly anyway. And then Disney backed out of the deal and that’s just not a good look.

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Anonymous OP 4d

Huh, good points. Thanks for teaching. The comparison to justifying keeping chat gpt while having the same cost issue made a lot of sense as to why Sora was shut down. I feel like there are also a lot more rivals of sora that work as good or better than it, but chat gpt is still outperforming other models. Chat gpt has also become mainstream and every day lingo with people saying “just ask chat” similar to how people started saying “just google it”. Sora never reached that level of public eye

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Anonymous #10 4d

Yeah, the competitors didn’t help Sora’s case either. But one problem that all AI image and video platforms face is that copyright wise, they are a legal nightmare. That’s why AI proponents were so jazzed about the Disney deal; it was supposed to prove to the world that AI would “take over Hollywood and replace artists” or something. With that deal falling through and Disney citing concerns that just associating their IP with AI could cheapen them, this is a huge blow to that whole narrative.

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Anonymous #10 4d

And honestly, I say good riddance to Sora and other AI video platforms like it. There are way too many ethical and legal concerns with AI as it exists now. Plus, I just prefer human made art with actual effort anyway.

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Anonymous OP 3d

That’s why I believe chat gpt 100% killed their whistleblower last month who spoke out and was trying to expose the illegal copyrighting

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Anonymous #10 3d

It’s an evil company, but assassination is ridiculous

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Anonymous #8 3d

Look into it, shits not right with they he died and the way the police are handling it

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Anonymous #10 3d

Billions and billions of dollars at stake make people do crazy things

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