OpenAI has "indefinitely" abandoned plans to release an a erotic chatbot for adults following concerns from employees and investors.
  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47 minutes

    Isn’t all this “OpenAI drops…” stuff (goonbot, Sora/Disney, etc) all because of Altman’s recent statement that they’re going to switch to being a one trick pony shop? As in: one product, win or lose.

    But if it’s lose, I guarantee they’ll Ministry of Truth that statement.

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      17 minutes

      Their statement in this article has a half dozen different reasons for dropping the project. A suspicious number of reasons, and all of them sound more like excuses. You’re definitely right about the Ministry of Truth though, because this embarrassment has been in development since 2024.

  • melfie@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1 hour

    I’d think that custom AI-generated smut videos would be all the rage. It’s one area where the content being slop shouldn’t matter as much.

    Hey, look, that lady has 3 breasts. Aw, here comes Double Dong Danny to get some of that. Man, this is some fucked up shit. Grabs a box of tissues.

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12 minutes

      Genuinely curious if you’ve found a good porn site that isn’t already incorporating these. The ones I frequent have them already fairly regularly but they are heavily down voted and have an uncanny valley feel to them that is a real turnoff. Not at all “all the rage”

    • Lanske@lemmy.worldEnglish
      58 minutes

      “Double Dong Danny”, that comment made me spit out my coffee and made my day!

    • unnamed1@feddit.orgEnglish
      4 hours

      I don’t think ai as technology needs saving, but the companies of the bursting bubble do. I love to see Altman struggle

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
        4 hours

        It’s hard to tell when he’s genuinely miserable because his face always looks like that.

    • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
      3 hours

      For the simple reason that is is REALLY cheap to make and monetize real porn.

      The only people using AI to make porn are people who wouldn’t be able to pay for it if they charged what it costs to use.

      • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        It’s really cheap to use a WAN model (or whatever the latest thing is) on my laptop to make porn without needing to find and hire a model, or even subscribe to an onlyfans. Also not paying OpenAI or anyone else besides the electric bill.

        I don’t think that’s going away, and I would be a bit surprised if it’s not already cutting into demand for the real thing (which I also think isn’t going away)

          • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2 hours

            What company? I mean local models.

            Edit: Oh, WAN is the name of a model that makes videos, it’s not Wide Area Network.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    Which is an interesting take, because anything sex-related seems to be the only way to make money with AI.

    • vaderaj@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46 minutes

      And WAR, because government’s love to burn tax payers money on useless sh*t

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      5 hours

      I hope the real reason is that they’re running out of money to try new features. But some of their stated reasons, like their AI age verification sucks, aren’t so bad either.

      …Actually, OpenAI has a suspicious number of reasons why they can’t do adult mode. I think they protest too much.

      • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5 hours

        I think it’s about video generation. They shut down Sora because it was burning too much money. Imagine how much a massive amount of porn videos would cost.

        • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
          3 hours

          This here. The dirty not-at-all-a-secret is that NONE of it is profitable. It is all a money-burning, water-wasting, RAM-market-sucking black hole.

          There is no road to profitability unless they somehow convince everyone to pay multiple thousands of dollars per year for subscriptions. At least that’s what I keep hearing; evidence otherwise with real references, I’m open to consider.

          EDIT: backblack

          • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
            3 hours

            Yep. I bet the reason they never actually closed the deal with Disney is that Disney discovered that shitty Sora CG cost more than their in house systems.

        • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
          3 hours

          That was probably what sunk the Disney deal.

          Disney can already make shitty CG animation for basically nothing. What Sora did was offer a way of doing it without any real expertise, but Disney already had that. It was probably impossible for Sora to actually produce lower-tier Disney content for less than Disney is already able to do it for.

        • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
          4 hours

          I think even the text prompts are unprofitable. Sam Altman said so once, even for paid plans. I wonder if they’re still in danger of bleeding themselves dry. One can dream.

  • lmr0x61@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4 hours

    Damn, they don’t even think the goonbot will sell? They really must be in a tough spot lmao

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
    4 hours

    Yet another area where the big companies are voluntarily leaving money on the table for the open model users to rake in. I approve.