Fi 🏳️⚧️lol openai's fucked.
Oh, per -this- story, apparently openai fucked -themselves- by shuttering the service without notifying Disney about it?
lol, wow, that's a -huge- fuckup.
That's gonna make all their other "partners" second-guess their relationship, if openai's so chaotic as to randomly shut down essential parts of such partnerships without warning.
Anyone doing even the -slightest- amount of due diligence should disqualify openai from consideration from this alone - a billion dollars in cash -and- access to a treasure-trove of licensing? that they just randomly drop on the floor because they're pivoting to a "super app" that nobody's going to want?
That's not the hallmark of a serious business in the slightest.
"OpenAI executives are now focusing on other research areas, including robotics and building artificial general intelligence."
So, things that need massive investments in hardware and things that are not possible with this tech. Got it.
NosirrahSec 🏴☠️ guillotine enthusiast@munin I don't think the geniuses chasing AGI right now are actually intelligent enough to realize just how far we are from functional conscious thought or even a generalized "intelligence" they're drooling for.
I'm not an expert and just the math about paths of neurons firing and how memories are stored (assuming we mimic what we know about consciousness, that is...)?
We're nowhere remotely near any sort of consciousness.
@munin and research into AGI may be worthy, but this isn't research and they're not even trying to hide that.
I don't think it's worthwhile as an avenue myself, but then I prefer fixing real problems that exist now, like "dependency management"
I have a scalding take that those people who confuse the narrative monologue in their head for their Self are incapable of assessing whether or not a machine has exhibited intelligence.
Cap Ybarra@munin idk if their other partners' sense is overpowering their avarice yet. here's hoping
I dare say it depends on whether their other partners are using openai, claude, or gemini to think for them.
kouhai, of the health issues@munin goog moment
The Doctor@munin One does not fuck with The Mouse.
Chris Petrilli@munin having worked there, I can tell you, if there's one thing Disney loves, it's surprises.
Arazil@munin Bullshit generation company contracts found to be bullshit. Does that sum it up? 🤔
The Embodiment of RED 
Maybe. Imagine if the public found out that Sora, into which Disney was still POISED to pour funds, was used to make:
* any of the crap Trump keeps vomiting into truth.social (more like "truth.seldom")
* the videos that helped spur needless fear and government response in Mexico after the latest cartel boss was killed during apprehension
If either side had enough indicators that Sora was used to these ends, both sides might decide shuttering it was a shrewd move.
@munin Besides, it's not THAT much effort to make these announcements today, then next Wednesday announce a new project aimed at pro filmmakers, priced so studios are 98% of the market, into which The Mouse will maybe dump that bil.
Wash both companies' hands, replying "social responsibility" when asked why.
Make it so only the well-funded can play in the dirt.
Continued profit.
Kluthulhu' XOR 1=1--@munin Good thing Disney is famously lenient regarding legal agreements...