Wooo fancy shmanchy! Congrats, that looks nice.

Now that’s a headline!

Chime in if you disagreee, but there’s really only 2 reasons a company like OpenAI shuts down a core service like Sora:

• The service is hemorrhaging money to the point of financial unsustainability.
• The service is not popular enough to drive investor hype as a “loss leader”

We already know that OpenAI is losing money on their generative “AI” products across the board, to the tune of billions of dollars per year, and the economic woes that come from rising hardware prices, oil and gas shortages, and another pointless war in the middle east only make the situation worse for them money-wise.

And so that really just leaves me to conclude that Sora has not maintained the level of popularity and growth needed to impress investors as Q1 comes to a close. Whether it’s users, subscriptions, or time, they must have looked at the numbers and really didn’t like what they saw.

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of the ridiculous “AI” bubble, and the start of a new tech sector correction.

Chime in if you disagreee, but there’s really only 2 reasons a company like OpenAI shuts down a core service like Sora:

• The service is hemorrhaging money to the point of financial unsustainability.
• The service is not popular enough to drive investor hype as a “loss leader”

We already know that OpenAI is losing money on their generative “AI” products across the board, to the tune of billions of dollars per year, and the economic woes that come from rising hardware prices, oil and gas shortages, and another pointless war in the middle east only make the situation worse for them money-wise.

And so that really just leaves me to conclude that Sora has not maintained the level of popularity and growth needed to impress investors as Q1 comes to a close. Whether it’s users, subscriptions, or time, they must have looked at the numbers and really didn’t like what they saw.

Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of the ridiculous “AI” bubble, and the start of a new tech sector correction.

People should just drive the car.

Jesus. People are still talking about self-driving cars?

I think you’re a bullshitting con artist.

AI can absolutely be used in a responsible, effective and enhancing way.

Maybe it can, but only if it’s trained responsibly, and not through the unprecedented exploitation of the labor and culture of the creative class like pretty much every large scale generative AI application out there.

The future of artistry isn’t a fucking etch a sketch and prompt engineering you fucking donkey.

Definitely not the future of art, but it could be the future of the media business. These greedy suits don’t care about “artistry” and will do anything to save money on labor costs. Unless, of course, people continue to push back hard against the ensloppification of everything we love.

We hate AI, but to be honest we don’t have it nearly enough…

Mostly corporate tech people, or really suits in general.

It’s certainly frustrating watching people make the same mistake over and over.

Violently terrorize innocent Americans and break up families, like usual.

Bring it on. All of these AI companies were already unprofitable and barely skating by on hype before, let’s see how they handle increasing costs, hardware shortages, unemployment, and market instability.

How much you wanna bet his car “teleported” there too?

Midterms, like all elections, are run by the states. The states will be sending their elected leaders to Washington next year. I’m confident that the midterms in my state will be honest and free.

Here’s a wild and crazy thought…

Win an election. Preferably 2, and preferably by a wide margin.

Feels like we’ve tried everything short of actually winning.

Good, get lost you shrimpy insecure cunt. Let’s see what pile of trash they replace him with.

I got into it by just committing to some projects in my free time. I built a relationship with the project, traveled to a few international sprints, and then eventually started working part time and gradually increased my involvement. I’m not sure how widely reproducible it is, to be honest, but it all starts with just getting into open source development and, like basically anything else, making personal connections in that scene. It’s highly dependent on the funding of the project, and unfortunately fundraising is the hard part of open source software development…

Plus, if you’re a senior developer, especially in the US, then you’ll probably be looking at decrease in pay to something around Euro developer rates. It’s hard to know if the long term prospects of this career are good, but I’m happy enough for now and I have a lot of agency. And it does feel good to know that you’re writing FOSS code for everyone to use. I would treat it like a passion-driven vocation of sorts.

DLSS 5: For when 85% fake frames and 75% fake pixels just isn’t enough!

Like all generative AI, it probably has 5 modes: deepfakes, uncanny valley, disneyghibli slop, shiny hentai, and schizocore