The studio giant will no longer move forward with its OpenAI investment, as the AI company exits the video generation business.
  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
    112·
    11 days ago

    So, perhaps the AI bubble won’t pop.

    Maybe it’ll just slowly deflate like a rancid fart.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      I have a theory, that these techbros have became so savvy of bubbles, that they had plans to keep it going forever, or at least make it slowly die instead of crash at once.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        I heard the big banks were trying something similar shortly before the '08 crash. And the Enron/Worldcomm crew right before 9/11.

        Certainly possible they’ve got an exit strategy lined up. But the problem is that they’re always just a little too greedy and too high on their own supply. During the '14 mini-recession, reinflating the bubble economy was a bipartisan goal. After the '20 COVID crash, there was broad consensus in cranking open the money hose and flooding the economy with cheap cash. '08, '14, and '20 set a big historical precedent for the “We’ll never let you fail” policies of the federal government. And so we’ve diluted a lot of the short term pain of economic contraction into the longer term pains of currency inflation.

        The enormous devastation to real physical capital all across these Mid-Eastern theocracies, combined with the socio-economic pressures of Climate Change induced heat waves, can and will push certain regions of the globe to a breaking point. At some point, you just don’t have anything to spend all those excess dollars on.

  • EatMyPixelDustEnglish
    100·
    10 days ago

    Sora died? Awesome. What an absolute waste of resources that garbage was.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        10 days ago

        That’s a shame, because KH2 is pretty widely regarded as the best in the series. If you stopped with Chain of Memories, I wouldn’t blame you. The gameplay for that one is definitely… Uhh… Divisive. But KH2 was when the series really hit its stride.

        • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          10 days ago

          I thought the card-based combat and deck building in Chain of Memories was fun, and the PS2 remake was really well done imo. KH2 is good, but story-wise, I don’t think anything can top 358 days/2, though Birth By Sleep comes close, and I like the combat in BBS more than KH2.

          Skip re:Coded though, or just find a compilation of the cutscenes/story on YouTube. That one is ass

      • Lonewolfmcquade@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        11 days ago

        Great read! I wonder what his perspective is now. That article was written in August 2024 and a lot has happened since then. For example, I cannot fathom the agreement to Sundar’s latest pay package. Another example of failing up the corporate ladder.

        Also, it feels like competition with China was an overlooked wildcard in his argument. It would not surprise me if the bubble continues to grow just to try and beat China.

        • CommanderCloon@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          10 days ago

          The issue is that you can’t really “beat” China. Their models are free to self host and use, they don’t play by the rules of US LLM companies.

          Sure it’s going to be the same for personal use, to most people chatGPT or DeepSeek are websites.

          But to enterprise it will be a massive difference in cost, and AI can’t even begin to dream about profitability without enterprise

          • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            10 days ago

            Their models are free to self host and use, they don’t play by the rules of US LLM companies.

            Jury’s out on that, they may be using the large US company play of undercut your competitors until they crash and burn then seize the monopoly (e.g. Amazon and bookstores…) then ratchet prices up and enshittify, but with the bankroll of a huge country.

    • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      Hopefully suno dies next. GenAI is garbage tech

      Ive been asking this for 4 years now, no one has given a good answer. What is this tech actually for??? Whats the use case??

      • rndmdsplyname@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        It’s for enabling wannabes. I’m a professional musician and I can tell you the only person who uses it is someone on the Suno payroll (Timbaland)

      • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        amusing yourself with silly songs and also not tormenting others with them

  • Ech@lemmy.caEnglish
    30·
    11 days ago

    “Wait, so you’re not going to help us eliminate most of our media staff? We’re out.”

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    9·
    10 days ago

    I recently stopped working as a developer for Disney, and even if this deal is gone for using their IP in AI, they’re still really big on AI at the moment. From the C level there was a push for everyone to be using it as much as possible. Everyone needed to be showing how much they were integrating it into their workflows.