OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform

Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform by bandrami on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @12:38AM (#47513312)

Surprisingly no; it's pretty much a money sink where everybody goes bankrupt after a couple of years. It's why it's attractive to money launderers.

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Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform by pjc50 on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @03:17AM (#47514274)

I'm not sure that's true for onlyfans, which seems to have been highly profitable until the sudden death of its founder.

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Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform by bandrami on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @04:09AM (#47514626)

Excellent point: I'm talking about pornography 1.0, as it were.

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Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform by cpt_sobel on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @05:25AM (#47515103)

1.0 should be attributed to pornography _before_ online distribution, and I suspect that was pretty profitable

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Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform by biztos on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @06:33AM (#47515537)

Isn't 1.0 before _photography_ rather?

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Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform by cpt_sobel on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @06:51AM (#47515654)

Drawings then?

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Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform by Integrape on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @08:24AM (#47516401)

Live action

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Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform by 4ggr0 on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:45AM (#47517296)

and now we're back to livecams, time is just a flat circle man...

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