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Posted by mikeocool 1 day ago

Goodbye to Sora(twitter.com)
https://xcancel.com/soraofficialapp/status/20365327959847158...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-sh..., https://archive.ph/ABkeI

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WWilliam 18 hours ago|
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vermilingua 19 hours ago||
Good riddence to bad trash. To me, this idea represents the absolute worst of the AI wave (out of a lot to choose from): a corporate controlled endless stream of the feelies to keep people plugged in and scrolling for nobody’s benefit except those in control of the output. If “entertainment” can be produced algorithmically to a volume and level of quality that the masses find attractive, it’s only a matter of time before bad (worse?) actors take control of it to start highly targeted campaigns of influence, far worse than what we’ve already seen.
teekert 22 hours ago||
“What you made with Sora mattered”. Idk why that sentence irks me so much. Perhaps because the “how” is bit vague. I like to think that what I made in the toilet this morning also mattered.
caconym_ 20 hours ago||
It's because it's vapid corpspeak coming from a class of people who have certainly spent time thinking about how they will deal with the rest of humanity in any number of nasty (however far-fetched) eschatological scenarios caused by them and in which they alone wield incredible power over nature and the human mind. And also because we all know the vast, vast, vast majority, possibly the totality of what people made with Sora did not matter at all.
jfoster 20 hours ago||
Reminds me of Facebook's memories feature which used to say: "<name>, we care about you and the memories you share here."

For an app to suggest a personal relationship with you is ridiculous.

bentcorner 20 hours ago||
Yeah this one is a classic: https://youtu.be/8OzZxjqKG10
slg 21 hours ago|||
Or perhaps a more appropriate analogy, its sounds like the sycophantic language of most of these LLM systems.

Which makes me wonder whether these companies actually dogfood their own tools with this sort of stuff? Was this announcement written by ChatGPT? Honestly, I would find either answer to be a little concerning in its own way. It's either vaguely insulting to their customers or showing a lack of faith in their own product.

MengerSponge 21 hours ago|||
I think of the medical definition when people use LLMs to "express" themselves: https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/express
hammock 21 hours ago||
That is the original meaning of the word (cf espresso etc)
wat10000 22 hours ago|||
It's a wonderful combination of vague, patronizing, and self-promoting. "Mattered" is meaningless. The tone sounds like when you tell a child their scribble is so pretty. And the cherry on top, the users didn't make anything with Sora, they just fed a bit of input into the machine and it made the stuff. So this is really OpenAI saying that what they themselves did mattered.
notatoad 20 hours ago|||
it feels like if that statement were true, they could have come up with some reason why it mattered, or something better than a platitude.

it reads as "we want to tell you that what you made with sora mattered, but we all know it didn't".

rchaud 20 hours ago||
It mattered in the sense that it provided valuable grist for the mill as they attempted to figure out if it could work as a Reels/TikTok alternative for companies to eventually deluge with ads.
abcde666777 21 hours ago|||
Typical PR speak.
moregrist 21 hours ago|||
It’s “Our Incredible Journey” for a new generation, this time with less optimism and more post-capitalist “enjoy your job while you still have it.”

I find myself increasingly nostalgic for the Clinton era. I am not at all sure I will enjoy the version of fuckedcompany that gets vibe coded when this bubble pops.

Yash16 16 hours ago|
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