Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

The insane part. The richest company in the world would rather steal and train their model than pay the creative work. We're talking about companies worth over 3-4T. They play this dirty game where they pay another company to train the model, ah la steal the work, hand the model to them. This way, it was them never stealing and they didn't know the contract work stole it.

sam altman molested his sister throughout her whole childhood. So ya I feel nothing but distain for that man.

It's comeuppance at DEFCON One.

I mean, it’ll end when it doesn’t make any money. All Musk and Ellison care about is money. They’re Trump loyalists because it makes them very wealthy. When AI isn’t making money and it’s only costing them, they’re not gonna give a shit anymore and they’ll move on to some other grift.

And do what with it? Neither OpenAI nor anyone else has a viable business model. This shit hemorrhages money and only the constant glut of venture capital keeps it going and that cannot last forever.

And then, do what?

Not really.. Musk already has grok so if that acquisition happened we would just have grok that had OpenAI’s systems implemented into it.

It ain’t my fault the US decided to hitch its entire economy to the most blatant snake oil scam of all time

And definitely dwarfs in terms of the profitability of a skilled human. If anyone can make an AI Coke commercial that looks exactly like your AI Coke commercial, you’re not replacing the jobs of your advertisers, you’re removing your ability to effectively advertise altogether.

The expensive thing about computer generated VFX isn't the server or technician time, it's the "above the line" look development time, where directors, VFX supervisors, production designers, producers, etc. sit around deciding what reality looks like for their film's world. For live action films and TV, efficient visual effects supervisors try to get some kind of physical version of their special effects in camera whenever possible, to ground those deliberations in the real world, narrowing the focus, and cutting down on look-dev time. In-camera practical effects make the needle-containing haystack smaller, as it were. AI generated video takes this equation in the exact opposite direction; widening the possibilities at the exact stage where you need to be narrowing them. It backs up a dumptruck full of hay onto that haystack. Speaking as a practical SPFX tech, a profession that was predicted to go extinct by 20 years ago with the daw of CGI... we're busier than ever, due to audience expectation of realistic visual effects. I don't see world where "generative" AI proves cheaper for mainstream filmmaking than human filmmaking, because what it costs is *time* to sort through it. Where I can see AI being useful is in managing a lot of the repetitive work that goes into managing things like logistics and continuity, and maybe somewhat for visioning in the early stages of production design and storyboarding.

Yes. It would be very inexpensive to get Will Smith to eat spaghetti. Cost to environment would be minimal.

SFX is not some field where you need extensive qualifications. If you can do the job you get hired, nobody cares how you got there and lots of SFX guys are just self trained nerds

No it f****** doesn’t bro. After Effects training is f****** free.

I don't think the high school dropouts that make 1 hour long video essays from wikipedia articles have that

Except if a company like OpenAI with all its resources and investment can't find a path to make it profitable, then it's unlikely any of the others will either.

Yup. This isn't some bubble popping for AI; it's a consolidation. The weaker models die out and the corporations just move their money to the ones left standing. Similar to how streaming services keep consolidating, the bigger ones eating the smaller ones.

Yeah this is all just consolidation, not popping. The weaker models died out, and investors are just moving their money towards the ones that are more stable. It's no different than how smaller streaming services just get absorbed into the bigger ones.

The only place anthropic are competing is coding and OpenAI have beaten them at that already.

Here you are on a dot com after the dot com bubble burst. A bubble bursting doesn't mean it'll go away forever.

Unless you're referencing Jeanie from I Dream of Jeanie, you probably meant genie, which is the English term for a djinn. And AI is absolutely useless for anything but rote, repetitive tasks, most of which can be done by specialized AI that don't require massive data centers. AI isn't necessarily going away but the more efficient, smaller AI will outcompete these wasteful large language models in terms of cost and effectiveness.

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