Finally, a good news
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It's so they can repurpose that capacity for developing robots. It's not good at all.
OpenAI told the BBC on Wednesday that it has discontinued Sora so that it can focus on other developments, such as robotics "that will help people solve real-world, physical tasks".
Correct, thought there is still good news in a way: OpenAI is running out of money rapidly. So much so, that they have to pick and choose one thing over the other.
They would have done the robot thing anyways, but the fact that they had to shut something else down for it sbows that the massive deficit is starting to affect them pretty heavily.
Maybe im just coping, but imo, the cracks are getting bigger and bigger.
So many people seem to have no idea what they're talking about. This isn't ending AI video creation, it just cost them a lot of money to offer it. You can generate a video on your own computer already. AI video isn't going away because one company isn't letting people do it on their servers for free any more.
Didn't realise you could do it locally, just checked online and there's several options. So why are these fuckers building huge, resource-greedy data centres. . ?
Because they want to do a lot of it and faster than a home pc could so they can offer it as a service.
Real answer: Because they want to own the world.
What you can do locally is slower and with much smaller models.
So they can charge you to do it on your phone...
Could this mean less wholly AI generated videos on YouTube? Please be so.
People will just switch to using other tools like googles veo
Doesn't that require a subscription though? It may not eliminate the slot videos, but that subscription is going to be a pretty substantial barrier to entry
Those pathetic AI youtube commercials where there is some fake over muscled geriatric talking about some miracle cure are the worst.
I just close them out. I'm hoping somewhere in youtubes algorithm of suck they are paying attention to how much those ads are hated.
I think one of the reasons why consumer facing AI content is failing so bad is because we have had good video content for decades so it’s super obvious when a video is just off.
I think this relates to the main reason why AI is failing (or at least not popular with consumers). It automatically just means the product has less quality than you’ve been used to for your entire life. It hasn’t really provided anything new to consumers.
Openai is the canary
Sweet now do the whole company
It was used almost exclusively for slop and slop-based ads or videos that shouldn't be slop. I was on there yesterday and some account had 2 videos of a woman in front of a plain wall talking for 15 seconds about tax implications for investments. A real human could have filed it with an iphone in 3 minutes.
But now that's Google and Grok's problems, I guess.
those 15seconds used alot of power, like megawatts.
If the audio and video is AI-generated I'm going to assume that the script is, too.
I've had to do training at work that I'm fairly certain was mostly AI generated. The pics and audio seemed to be. And even the questions that I had to get right in order to complete the training... Some of them just weren't covered in the training. Come on
I had a safety thing about a year ago and at the end it asked a question the the effect of " there's broken glass on the shop floor, what should you do" . I picked the option to use a broom and dust pan but apparently the correct tool for glass clean up is a pair of tongs...
Oh no, it was very specific and hard to cram all the words in to the time. Typical Sora is that it's either screaming or long pauses.
I absolutely can't wait for more of this shit to start collapsing financially.
Good.
RIP Sgt General Jessica Foster. Semper fudge.
Maybe time to move retirement accounts into cash.
Move it to precious metals or assets that historically average flatter value through crashes. The dollar is highly volatile in economic crisis.
Cash will lose value just exactly as the money in your account.
I'd do this but its probably the wrong move. I tend to go with the steam method: do nothing while everyone else scrambles, profit.
Meh, I'm poor and have no assets at all. Guess I just die.
Or invest in non-US to keep them safe. Like Norwegian funds while the orange is oranging to gain on the oil price boom, and then spread out to European and emerging markets when he has his first public stroke in a few months.
I'd be shocked if any other country let's Americans use their banks and markets but I mean I guess its possible I know there's forex and stuff like that.
I've always heard no one wants Americans to open bank accounts if they aren't living there
You have to be able to invest in stocks or funds outside US from a US trader? Even though I've sold most of my US assets, I still own some US stocks through my Scandinavian bank.
Most useless pile of jackshit to be ever created.
Oh no.....stop....don't go..../s
Wao, that didn't last too long, did it? 🤣
Waiting for Ed zitron to repost this with this image attached 😂
insert nelsonhaha.jpg
Middle school interships?
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