OpenAI: Make Sora paid only and create a new subscription plan
I get that you guys are sensitive and wanna be taken seriously. Claude wears polos. I get it. I get that you got your IPO coming. That’s nice. But bruh, you made the best video generation model in existence and a sweet social platform to accompany it and you just shut it down??? Nah. You took the whole free thing too far and didn’t have a plan to turn the corner. It was a great jump off but you forgot step 2. The plan was: change the world with realistic text to video. Profit. Don’t give up on the second part. Boot the freeloaders and set a subscription price that turns a profit. Give us some better editing tools so we can be more efficient with the content we generate. Google ain’t shutting down Flow. Just saying.
If you dump free usage things get cheaper immediately. You can wind down some resources and allocate that compute elsewhere. Remember that your goal is realtime streaming ai generated video. Sora was a step on that path.