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Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1913698/disney-exits-openai-deal-after-ai-giant-shutters-sora

Original WSJ exclusive: OpenAI Scraps Sora App in Continued Push to Focus on Coding and ‘Agent’ Tools

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 hours ago

A big, stupid magic trick: As these companies get desperate, expect someone — especially OpenAI — to try and show something “new and crazy” as a means of trying to turn the narrative. When or if this happens, look very carefully at what they say about the product’s availability, or what it can do, or who they show it to.

Alternative scenario — Sora launches: If OpenAI gets desperate, it may move up the public launch of Sora, its generative video product. Doing so will only cause more problems — there isn’t a chance in hell that Sora is profitable, and I’m fairly sure it’s even more expensive to run than ChatGPT, and I imagine its visual inconsistencies and hallucinations would make for some entertaining content for YouTubers and tech reporters.

It was a horseman, just not the part where they cancel it a few months later.

To be fair to OpenAI, they are now saying "just use ChatGPT for video too". Good chance that Disney cancelled them before they cancelled Sora