was on today, but then it got cancelled because Rick’s job interview was pushed forward a day. Oh well, maybe next week. I’m not bothered by it, I’m a bit exhausted anyway. I had to get up on the roof this morning and check for a leak. This is very common around here. There isn’t one person who doesn’t have a leaking roof at some point due to the severe weather. You learn to live with it. I do know that Ai isn’t fixing it.
Yesterday the news came that OPenAI the company that rolled out this thing called Sora, which was an app that allowed people to generate pointless memes, has shut it all down to focus on this new and amazing thing. OpenAI said that it had recently completed development of a new AI model, codenamed Spud. The model should be revealed in the next few weeks, and it was said that Sam Altman the guy who is the CEO of the company told OpenAI staff that it “can really accelerate the economy.”
It seems the problem with Sora was that it was costing a fortune to run and not producing anything worthwhile. This is how the thread started..
“Hey /pol/, I’m a mid-level engineer at OpenAI. Not doxxing myself, not giving names, but I have direct knowledge of what’s happening right now. Yesterday (March 24, 2026) they officially killed the standalone Sora app and API. Anti AI types are saying it is the bubble popping.
Here’s the truth: Sora (especially the new version that went viral last year) eats an absolutely insane amount of computer power. We’re talking GPUs running 24/7 at massive scale – costs that were heading toward tens of millions per day if it ever really blew up. It was great for memes, TikTok-style clips, and that Disney deal, but long-term retention was trash. People played with it for a week then moved on. It wasn’t advancing the mission anymore.
So they pulled the plug. Not because “AI bubble is popping” like some schizos are saying. They did it on purpose to free up every single GPU they could get their hands on.”
This unleashed a torrent of comments decrying the whole thing. Comments (in italics) on the thread that this appeared on were quite entertaining, and people didn’t hold back what they really thought about it.
“AI hasn’t done shit for the economy, buy an ad or fuck off with your propaganda.”
AI is hobo taint cheese
“AI is hobo taint cheese. Let’s assume this shit plays out, AI isn’t going to “accelerate the economy” because the long-term benefits get obliterated by the sheer amount of job loss it causes. It’s basically like pouring bleach into a gas tank. The entire mechanism required for the system to run is destroyed, and that’s assuming there isn’t going to be some kind of civil revolt against data centers, people just destroying all the water and power infrastructure to the data centers to black them out.
What will happen is this bullshit will get exposed and all the probably trillions dumped into this hail mary shit show collapse the entire market and country.“
“Fake and gay bullshit. I actually work for OpenAI. Yes, Sora got the axe because it was bleeding us dry, but thinking that you can delete a key feature and take all that computing power and magically improve the AI is not how it works.
People have been dropping GPT subscriptions since the introduction of 5.0 which was heavily censored and dumbed down to save power.
Altman thinks he can produce better results if he has a little more juice but that’s not even the case anymore since users are regularly fed propaganda or wrongthink warnings (and he thinks that’s a good thing).“
“We’re talking about a technology that enables third worlders to spam the internet with completely insufferable garbage and run a million bots to defraud an income out of the creator revenue systems on every platform, lets students cheat in school and learn nothing, lets retards cheat in job interviews to get jobs they’re not even halfway qualified for, and generates broken code that’s actively making every major service less and less reliable by the day.
“It’s bullshit. It’s a smoke and mirrors parlor trick that our entire economy has been dragged along by the nose into because the people in charge of this shit kept making promises that a superhuman intelligence would pop out of it 18 months from now if we just kept throwing more computer hardware at it.
Now they’re saying this technology won’t ever get there, and they need to pivot to something else, that’ll feel like a step backwards for a little while, so don’t divest en mass and crash the economy.
I hate that our wealthiest and most powerful people are all immoral upward-failing poseurs who got suckered into reconstructing our economy around snake oil.“
“I actually work with AI and understand its limitations, I know that it can’t fully replace people.
AI hallucinations aren’t something that simply disappear with more scale or more rigorous training. In transformer-based LLMs, they’re mathematically inevitable. The probability of any single token being incorrect,and triggering a cascade of error, is never zero.“
All of these different (but the same) points of view, kind of solidified my feelings about AI. AI promises a lot, but some of it in my opinion, is looking more and more like a money making scam. It appears that more than a few people agree with me.
Good Day