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Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform by elif on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @08:19PM (#47511512)
i think that's a mis-statement of the problem being addressed here. It's not a question of how useful AI video will be generally. It's a question of OpenAI doing it specifically. IMO it's two factors:

1) the intellectual property issues make commercializing freeform video generation impossible. The more popular your service becomes, the easier it is for lawyers to descend upon you. It's a self-defeating framework.

2) google and specialized video-only startups are simply doing a much better job than they were.

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Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform by k3k3 on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @09:27PM (#47511997)
---- 3) OpenAI has no focus, and has recently been out-gunned by Anthropic who have actually focused.
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Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform by oblio on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @08:35PM (#47511624)
> the intellectual property issues make commercializing freeform video generation impossible. The more popular your service becomes, the easier it is for lawyers to descend upon you. It's a self-defeating framework.

This risks generalizing to audio and text which would make most LLMs usage unsustainable. I guess time will tell what actually goes through the strainer, long term.

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