Mastodawn

Goodbye to Sora

https://xcancel.com/soraofficialapp/status/20365327959847158...

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

https://twitter.com/soraofficialapp/status/2036532795984715896

Sora (@soraofficialapp)

We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work. – The Sora Team

Nitter

AlexAplin 4d ago

Notably, this primer on Sora safeguards was published only yesterday: https://openai.com/index/creating-with-sora-safely/

Not a great look that either the teams responsible for Sora didn't know this was coming or the decision was so brash that things changed overnight.

Creating with Sora safely

To address the novel safety challenges posed by a state-of-the-art video model as well as a new social creation platform, we’ve built Sora 2 and the Sora app with safety at the foundation. Our approach is anchored in concrete protections.

The app isn’t shutting down today, so they may have decided that the write up is still useful.

repeekad 4d ago

More likely the team who put a lot of work into it were unaware of the decision to kill the product, regardless of the final sunset date, until today.

i guess the disney deal falling through was the impetus rather than vice versa

blackflame7000 4d ago

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I had so much fun making videos with my mom when it came out. During the first two weeks, we made almost 200 cameo videos together - we were constantly running up against the upload limit. It unleashed tons of genuine creativity, joy, and laughter from us.

After those first two weeks though, we just… didn’t use it again. The novelty wore off and there wasn’t anything really to bring us back. That was the real downfall of Sora.

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Waterluvian 4d ago

I think you’re fumbling on an important distinction.

Sometimes people want to paint, sometimes people want a painting.

To have wonderful time with their mom… I bet they had absolutely zero interest in the act and process of making silly videos.

I get your point but it goes too far in the opposite direction. We should now discuss absolutely nothing in relation to Sora and genAI videos? That seems overly charitable to the platform.

Waterluvian 4d ago

Here, let me try this approach:

Read the main comment out loud to yourself while imagining it’s someone sitting at a table at a pub.

Now imagine someone turning to this person in the pub, and speaking the subsequent comment, word for word.

No seriously, try it out.

Agreed. I did try this out! So the reply to the original comment is dumb. I actually dismissed it for being flippant.

Your reply is more interesting. Hence my (albeit maybe snarky) chiming in. So the original comment does end at a very specific app/sora related conclusion. "Sora didn't keep us coming back."

If I may amend your scenario: imagine this bar is actually in the center of SF or across the street from Open-AI or whatever. We're on HN discussing a post on X about Sora.

The appeal to humanity is not wrong. My point is more let's keep the connection with that humanity in relation to AI, to Sora, to what's going on in this forum.

Totally. This wasn't a situation where a stranger was slopping another stranger, it was a mother and son doing something fun together.

Come on now...'We're curing cancer, right?!'

You didn't at least puff a little ack through your nostrils for that one?

nomoreusernames 4d ago

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Please don't cross into personal attack. Your comment would be fine without the swipe at the end.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Hacker News Guidelines

mathattack 4d ago

This is consistent with a lot of AI apps. I fell in love with Gamma and haven’t used it in forever. Same with NotebookLM.

wholinator2 4d ago

I somewhat consistently use notebookLM for podcasts of academic papers I'm reading in my PhD. You have to go read it yourself afterwards but it makes better use of time in the gym or doing dishes/groceries.

Just listen to actual audio books... literally doing double the work for no benefit... why?

bandrami 4d ago

And this kills the Disney deal:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-sh...

Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

The studio giant will no longer move forward with its OpenAI investment, as the AI company exits the video generation business.

The Hollywood Reporter

yoyohello13 4d ago

It’s been interesting seeing OpenAI pivot. Snapping up popular open source devs, sicking their bought and paid for politicians on their competitors.

They probably see how much Anthropic is absolutely crushing them in developer mind share (see, people who buy tokens) and want a piece.