I downloaded tiktok today for the very first time out of curiosity and it’s all Sora. All of it. The default is AI spoonfed to you in a feed. I’m someone who is somewhat impartial when it comes to AI, and I don’t have any social media outside lemmy, so this was a huge shock to my system that so many videos with endless bot and user engagement are so easily accessible to the stupid masses.

  • MyBrainHurts@piefed.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’ll laugh/cry pretty hard if it turns out the ultimate product, after 3 years and billionaires of dollars, turns out to be video memes.

  • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    If it helps, those AI videos allegedly cost Sora 1$ per second of video to produce, and it takes quite a few tries to get it right. There’s no way to make it profitable in its current form.

  • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Been that way for a while, and you can’t escape it even if you’ve never downloaded TikTok. My neighbor sits on her porch like 14 hours a day, blasting AI TikTok videos from her cell phone so loudly I can hear it from inside my house. On my lunch breaks at work, everyone around me has TikTok on continuously, once again blasting out of their cell phones (srsly wtf happened to Airpods?). Some of them come up and show me “cool” or “funny” videos that are straight AI slop and I just have to grin weakly and give a courtesy chuckle.

    TikTok has completely enraptured everyone around me and I still don’t get the appeal of it.