Pop the bubble
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this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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Porn won't save ai
I don’t think ai as technology needs saving, but the companies of the bursting bubble do. I love to see Altman struggle
It's hard to tell when he's genuinely miserable because his face always looks like that.
For the simple reason that is is REALLY cheap to make and monetize real porn.
The only people using AI to make porn are people who wouldn't be able to pay for it if they charged what it costs to use.
It's really cheap to use a WAN model (or whatever the latest thing is) on my laptop to make porn without needing to find and hire a model, or even subscribe to an onlyfans. Also not paying OpenAI or anyone else besides the electric bill.
I don't think that's going away, and I would be a bit surprised if it's not already cutting into demand for the real thing (which I also think isn't going away)
Right, you can afford to do that because the company you are using is taking a loss on the product.
What company? I mean local models.
Edit: Oh, WAN is the name of a model that makes videos, it's not Wide Area Network.
Which is an interesting take, because anything sex-related seems to be the only way to make money with AI.
I hope the real reason is that they're running out of money to try new features. But some of their stated reasons, like their AI age verification sucks, aren't so bad either.
...Actually, OpenAI has a suspicious number of reasons why they can't do adult mode. I think they protest too much.
I think it's about video generation. They shut down Sora because it was burning too much money. Imagine how much a massive amount of porn videos would cost.
This here. The dirty not-at-all-a-secret is that NONE of it is profitable. It is all a money-burning, water-wasting, RAM-market-sucking black hole.
There is no road to profitability unless they somehow convince everyone to pay multiple thousands of dollars per year for subscriptions. At least that's what I keep hearing; evidence otherwise with real references, I'm open to consider.
EDIT: ~~back~~black
Yep. I bet the reason they never actually closed the deal with Disney is that Disney discovered that shitty Sora CG cost more than their in house systems.
That was probably what sunk the Disney deal.
Disney can already make shitty CG animation for basically nothing. What Sora did was offer a way of doing it without any real expertise, but Disney already had that. It was probably impossible for Sora to actually produce lower-tier Disney content for less than Disney is already able to do it for.
I think even the text prompts are unprofitable. Sam Altman said so once, even for paid plans. I wonder if they're still in danger of bleeding themselves dry. One can dream.
Yeah, i think they are already doing it as a pass-through with some other company.
They are probably licensing some bullshit to someone else.
Why is that shitty product being used
Suck it, Trebeck!
Damn, they don’t even think the goonbot will sell? They really must be in a tough spot lmao
Yet another area where the big companies are voluntarily leaving money on the table for the open model users to rake in. I approve.