That’s it for Sora. OpenAI has announced the shutdown of one of the most popular tools for creating generative content.
The development team has announced that it is “saying goodbye to Sora” and will provide more details soon.
To everyone who created content with Sora, shared it, and built a community around it - thank you.
What you did with Sora mattered, and we understand that this news may have disappointed you.
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Good. Image generation has no ethical purpose. It either displaces jobs to funnel more money to megacorps, or it’s used in harassment and manipulation campaigns.
LLMs as they are right now are not ethically trained, used or deployed, but they have a good use as a natural language processor and can be done ethically without ruining the environment, endangering people’s livelihood, funneling money upwards and being self hosted.
You don’t think someone else will pick up the slack?
One week from now: “Announcing Bora, the new video generator!!!”
Look inside
Sora
And nothing of value was lost.
Finally! The onslaught of sloppy videos will go down a bit.
In fairness, it did watermark the slop it generated - although that wasn’t too hard to crop out of course.
