SORA is DEAD. DISNEY PULLS OUT. OPENAI REMOVES VIDEO CAPABILITIES AND VIDEO DEVELOPER TOOLS FROM CHATGPT.
"... the novelty wore off fast and all that was left was AI slop of Mister Rogers doing karate and cops arresting a sentient waffle." (readthedailies.com)
The speculation is OpenAI's continual hemorrhaging of money, projected to lose $14B this year and having paid billions to settle copyright infringement claims for written work alone (not yet facing up to image copyright claims).
Google is being called "the last one standing" (Bytedance's Seedance launch being pulled globally scant days ago) Perhaps it was inevitable? Where will it fall? I have my ideas after 30+ years in film, but they're just ideas. Read two news items here:
https://apnews.com/article/openai-closes-sora-ai-c60de960536923f33edc04b...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-shutting-down-...
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Great to see OpenAI lose this battle this soon. A positive signal for filmmakers over the next 5 years. Can't imagine they won't be back though once they get ideas on how to do it for cheaper and bring the energy costs way down. A well deserved win for copyright, nice to see our country still upholads laws every now and again
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Pat Alexander Honestly I don't think it impacts filmmakers either way, and I don't think generative AI does either. These are marketed to the retail public and, as noted by The Dailies, are novelties, and the novelty is wearing off. Gen AI is an animation tool, nothing more and nothing less. Which is to say that the professional and talented will be able to integrate it into their pipeline appropriately, and the wannabe and talent free will just spend their money producing unwatchable and public domain drivel. Just my opinion.
"Very helpful insight."
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