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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 11d

Werewolf games!! Starts at 7! www.twitch.tv/neilcic

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Camp Computer Games: Werewolves

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 12d

Like if you wanted to hurt Costco you'd buy a huge amount of $1.50 hotdogs

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 12d

Serious question, if this is the case, shouldn't we all sign up and waste as much of their money as we can?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15d

Sora 2 is also unbelievably expensive, costing OpenAI at least $5 per 10 second video - and likely more considering Sora 2 also generates synced-up audio. OpenAI loses one subscriber's revenue *every four images generated*. It's unbelievably stupid.
www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai...

Sora 2 Is Unbelievably Expensive, With Each Video Costing $5 Of Compute and Users Allowed To Generate 100 Videos Every 24 Hours — Meaning OpenAI Will Lose A Month’s Subscription Revenue Every Four Videos Generated
Let’s establish some facts:

Once you have access to Sora 2, you can generate what appears to be an unlimited amount of videos, at least on a $20-a-month subscription, and OpenAI has promised “generous limits” for a non-specific amount of time.
Every Sora 2 generation is at 1280x704 — a variant of 720p resolution — and every single one is 10 seconds long, even if you ask it to generate a longer one.
Each video appears to have sound, whether or not you asked for it.
It takes about a minute to generate each video.
Now, I’m a curious little critter, so I found that Microsoft actually publishes the prices of using Sora on its Azure AI Foundry page if you select “US East 2” as your region. To be clear, this is the pricing for the first Sora model, rather than Sora 2, which is likely more expensive.

Nevertheless, based on Azure’s pricing, it’s likely that each Sora 2 generation is priced at the “720 Global” rate of 50 cents a second, meaning that each video generated on Sora 2 costs $5 in compute, if not more, because it’s very likely that OpenAI’s costs are more than it charges on an API basis.

Now, according to The Information, OpenAI’s gross margins were projected to be 50% this year, meaning that even in the most kindly, sweet maths of all time, it’s annihilating all of its margin in two generations, and another subscriber’s margins in two more.

I also understand that some may argue that OpenAI’s costs “might not be as bad,” and there’s no evidence that this is the case.

Sora 2, by OpenAI’s own description, is a “video and audio generation model,” suggesting it’s one main model rather than a combination with its audio-generation models it released earlier this year.

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · 29d

New Camp Computer Games starting soon!! Featuring my dear hacker bride @mingdoyle.bsky.social
Watch here at 7 ET:
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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · Sep 5

Watch me and my sister "goof" on some good old Disney Games:
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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · Aug 25

a special Sideways Heaven for people killed by someone holding their gun sideways

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · Aug 24

there was time in my teens, I think, where I Mandela Effected my own birthday and could've sworn it was the 24th. So happy birthday, original timeline me!

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · Aug 19

Campin' and gamin' Twitch.tv/NeilCic

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · Aug 15

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux9b...
Coming next week!

Camp Computer Games (Announcement)

YouTube video by Guaranteed* Video

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · Aug 14

Woah! I still think about the demo showed us during lockdown

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Eric Colossal @ericcolossal.bsky.social · Aug 14

My new game comes out tomorrow. 10 years ago I texted myself an idea "what about a shooter with no lights and all you had was a flashlight and a gun?" And now here it is. If anyone has played it and wants to leave a review, I would be every so grateful
store.steampowered.com/app/2698870/...

Midnight Murder Club on Steam

A heart-pounding and hilarious horror party game set in a pitch-black mansion. Armed with a flashlight, a revolver, and proximity chat, you and up to five friends sneak, shout, and stumble your way th...

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · Aug 12

the poses were too far back, I'd been moving a bunch of other stuff around and the pose persisted so I thought I was safe

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · Aug 12

Ctrl-Z should just work!!

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · Aug 12

it's free? not good enough. Pay ME, blender devs. Invoicing you now.

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Neil Cicierega @neilcic.com · Aug 12

in Blender if you are working on a character pose for a really long time and then you click on the timeline, it just resets and Undo doesn't fix it. I love features like that