XLEOpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot
https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1920526/openai-drops-plans-to-release-an-adult-chatbot
Which is an interesting take, because anything sex-related seems to be the only way to make money with AI.
I hope the real reason is that they’re running out of money to try new features, but the stated reason isn’t so bad either: that they aren’t yet able to surveil their users fast enough. Hearing Worldcoin failing to function is nice.
I think it’s about video generation. They shut down Sora because it was burning too much money. Imagine how much a massive amount of porn videos would cost.
ArghblargThis here. The dirty not-at-all-a-secret is that NONE of it is profitable. It is all a money-burning, water-wasting, RAM-market-sucking back hole.
There is no road to profitability unless they somehow convince everyone to pay multiple thousands of dollars per year for subscriptions. At least that’s what I keep hearing; evidence otherwise with real references, I’m open to consider.
Yep. I bet the reason they never actually closed the deal with Disney is that Disney discovered that shitty Sora CG cost more than their in house systems.
VindictiveJudgeOr because of that recent ruling that you can’t copyright AI generated images. If Disney can’t copyright the videos Sora produces, then it’s useless to them.
That was probably what sunk the Disney deal.
Disney can already make shitty CG animation for basically nothing. What Sora did was offer a way of doing it without any real expertise, but Disney already had that. It was probably impossible for Sora to actually produce lower-tier Disney content for less than Disney is already able to do it for.
Yeah, i think they are already doing it as a pass-through with some other company.
I think it’s that they are preparing for IPO, which means opening their books and being an attractive investment.
Sora was killed because it haemorrhaged cash for each generation. Investors wouldn’t be comfortable with that still running in the books.
This is killed because a respectable investment does sell porn.
nVidia had announced that instead of 100 billion for nothing to OpenAI that they were doing 30 billion for stake, and said they were probably not going to keep giving these ‘halo’ AI companies money after this.
I also saw a report that banks were starting to get a bit more stingy with money to the same companies.
I think that while there’s still plenty of money coming in still, it does seem like the ‘take our unlimited cash just because you have AI in your name’ phase is wearing out and they actually have to try to convince people now.
Which is a pretty big problem for them, as despite their brand recognition they aren’t really seen as the ‘leader’ in the AI space on any particular front.
They are probably licensing some bullshit to someone else.