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Hopefully a sign the bubble is bursting

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[–] AlyxMS@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not important. It's a video generator, type some text and it generates the doorbell camera view of a cat firing a machine gun.

Was ahead of the open source solutions, and probably everyone else for a good while. No e the Chinese (unfortunately proprietary) ones has gotten just as good if not better.

Also they tried to sell it as a new way to produce films. Except the stuff it makes is nowhere near ready for that. So people used it as a toy, generating joke clips / AI slop.

The amount of compute needed to generate videos is like an order of magnitude higher than pictures and text. They have to be bleeding money like crazy from this thing.

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So it's too soon to get excited for the bubble pop? :(

At least they're seeing what's too expensive to be useful

[–] AlyxMS@hexbear.net 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Just think of it as a few bundles of straw to the camel's back. The raising energy cost from the Iran kerfuffle will also add some bundles.

Personally I am optimistic. But again, money has never been so fake. Operating at a loss while being valued in the billions seems to be a common thing these days.