Farewell, Sora. You were too beautiful and too stupid for this world.
Sora was too good for this world. Now it's gone. Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Goodbye, Sora ! I loved you at first — it was so much fun making silly videos of my friends. After a few days, I got bored and moved on. Apparently so did everyone else. Goodnight, sweet Sora. You were a wonderful tool for trolling my friends, but you burned too bright (and used too much compute) to stay around in this harsh world. For a brief moment, I absolutely loved Sora . I loved making silly videos of my friends and me. I loved that I could use my friend's face to put them in ridiculous situations, like falling over while roller-skating at their desk, experiencing gastric distress, or singing in a ska band. I was addicted to making these, churning them out, often starting a new one while waiting for the previous one to render, and sometimes hitting the hourly limit that OpenAI had to impose after some people (oops) were burning through all that free compute. I drained my ph...
