Carmi Levy
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We don't watch Sora videos the same way we watch TikTok videos.
There's no human connection.
These aren't digital creators or influencers that we follow and are interested in.
And so I think a lot of people downloaded it for the novelty factor, but then it just didn't sustain itself.
And the economics simply didn't work, certainly not for a company that wants to go public later this year.
So they're not just getting rid of SOAR.
They're getting rid of instant checkout.
They're getting rid of a lot of the consumer focused tools that they had built into or built onto on top of chat GPT.
And they're going to pivot to the enterprise.
And I think it's a reminder here that, yeah, you may be an AI company, you may be the leading AI company, but you still got to make money.
And if some of your tools don't make money, they got to get killed.
Yeah.
And I think we're approaching a reckoning point.
The industry realizes it's very expensive to provide those services for free.
And if they're not going to generate revenue and drive profitability, you've got to get rid of them now.
Yeah, feel free.
There's enough imagery out there online that you can easily grab just a picture of me and then throw it into a video generator and create a sexualized, nudified video of me doing things that I certainly wouldn't do in real life.
I'm sure that's a video nobody ever asked to see, but it's possible.
And this is really just a high-tech version of kids passing notes among each other in class, smack-talking their teacher.
But now that you have these video generators and clones,