Why Sora Failed: $15M/day inference cost vs. $2.1M lifetime revenue

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Why Sora Failed: $15M/day inference cost vs. $2.1M lifetime revenue - Lemmy: Bestiverse

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Imagine if they spent 15M/day on fixing the climate instead…

$15m / day would do almost nothing. It’s a tiny amount compared to how much pollution is generated.

$15m / day is equivalent to about 5 cents per American per day. Meanwhile, the attacks on Iran are at least $1 billion per day, or about $3 per American per day. Even just in gasoline, Americans spend on average about $2.60 per day on gasoline (and that’s not per driver, that’s per American including little children, per household it’s $6.60 per day).

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Americans spent $201/month on gas in 2024, or 3.1% of their budget. See how spending varies by income, age, and state.

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Well yea, but still better than nothing
15M$/day is a good budget to start lobbying very efficiently. About as good as the total of all lobbying costs spent in the US.
Don’t lose hope brother. I feel like we are at the start of an hard fall, I still have hope, that people will have to react once it start to be crappy enough.
I just want it to fail sooner rather than later. And, I wish I could make some money betting that it would fall, because that would be so satisfying. But, it could be years before the bubble finally bursts.