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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.

Mostly corporate tech people, or really suits in general.

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

Not usually an Apple guy, but it’s hard to overstate how smart it is to focus on affordability right now. I feel like having a ~$500 device in the current market is so important. (Especially if it respects your privacy.)

This is the opposite of “own nothing and be happy” and I suspect these things are gonna sell like hotcakes.

Now we just need to get Linux going on them. 🫡