Sora, the money pit, has been shut down.

Who could have predicted this???

"If we just open it up, let more people see what this technology can do *something* will happen!"

And now something has happened.

Sora videos in particular always had a creepy unseemly quality, something about the poses people would strike, the movement made me think there might have been too much porn in the training data.

I had a friend in uni who was an art major and he made this digital frame back in 2000 that displayed a random internet image. He wrote his own crawler and like half of what it came back with was porn. So this could have happened easily.

@futurebird As an aside, I've read way too many anecdotes about how porn has ruined men. There's an epidemic of bad pornified male romantic partners.

Our brains didn't evolve defenses against the modern porn onslaught. :(

@JordiGH @futurebird

My experience is that guys are often really eager but just ... can't.

On the plus side from a woman's perspective, their sexuality often revolves around watching women having a good time, so if you don't need piv, as long as you're having fun, you can get a huge amount of attention. They also have insane finger endurance.

@futurebird Remember WebCollage?
https://www.jwz.org/webcollage/

That was a risky one to have at work!

WebCollage: Exterminate All Rational Thought

@futurebird yeah i feel like something abt how quickly grok was used to generate csa might be at the root of sora being shut down. you cant stop ppl from making prompts like that even if you could narrow the data slurped for slop
@futurebird Ed Zitron has the big Cheshire Cat smile of predicting this.
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@futurebird Like bolting a rocket engine to a Chevy Citation, something exciting is bound to follow.
@futurebird sorry my character limit is way too small to list the people that can amd did predict it >_<