Mastodawn

OpenAI kills their Sora Video generator.

Which isn't that surprising TBH:
- it is massively expensive to run
- the results were not that usable
- it was a lawsuit generator

So in order to keep the numbers looking better till their IPO at the end of this year they are starting to cut shit. Just an indicator that things are not looking good cashflow-wise.

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oatmeal

@tante also speaking of hype dying out hopefully, there are enough free alternatives to get simple jobs done for casual users (ie summaries or translation). I’ve stopped using #Mistral when I realized it was in fact running on USA infra and now using #xPrivo which is 100% EU and open source (even self-hosted option). Canceled my #Claude subscription a month ago.

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Gustavo 14h ago

@oatmeal @tante I guess people that like that are using alternatives.

Well, the people on my church are, every month they present a 5 minute AI-generated parody of some TV show featuring people from the church and the current month events. From the video style, looks like they are using Google's thing.