[mentalgear]

The fact that OpenAI is pushing Sora, and Altman now even hinting at introducing "erotic roleplay"[0] makes it obvious: openAI has stopped being a real AI research lab. Now, they’re just another desperate player in a no-moat market, scrambling to become the primary platform of this hype era and imprison users onto their platform, just like Microsoft and Facebook did before in the PC and social era.

[0] https://www.404media.co/openai-sam-altman-interview-chatgpt-...

[sixothree]

The amount of animal abuse videos I've seen is a bit disturbing. It only demonstrates how careless they have been, possibly intentionally. I know people on HN have been describing the various reasons why OpenAI has not been a good player, but seeing it first-hand is visceral in a way that makes me concerned about them as a company.

[gilfoy]

Why is it one or the other? They have enough money to do both.

[mentalgear]

But if you followed them, there are focusing only on product for the last 2 years. The grand GPT-5 and their scaling laws, from which all their LLM AGI hopes originated, turned out to be a dud.