Questions that bug me:
That deleted tweet about Sora being released to kickstart a "social response"
That implies they KNEW this would cause a negative reaction beforehand. That and they haven't even offered an apology or statement about hearing the feedback. Companies responded more overtly to 100x less controversial things.
The fact they even released Sora at all. Why follow up Gemini 1.5 Pro with a text to video program no one can use, and its bigger advancement is the emergent world model anyway?
The constant increasingly esoteric shitposts on Xitter. What's the purpose of this?
The complete lackadaisical reveal of it. It wasn't a big event, and Sam stopped responding to requests within 30 minutes. Even the initial DALL-E 2 rollout at least had a longer tail of fulfilling requests. It's like "Oh, and here's Sora, anyway, we'll leave you alone now, direct all your hate to this P.O. Box"
The call for $7 trillion. Not even for general capital investment but to build chip fabs. Such an absurd number, that's not how even irrational business types speak. He's saying he wants to collect the same money that the 3rd and 4th largest economies combined output in a year, just for AI chips.
And of course the big hooplah months back over Sam leaving and coming back.
It almost feels like they're trying to force regulatory capture to prevent others from catching up because they may have "won" the race so to speak... It may be fleetingly possible they've actually done it and created an interpretable early AGI, but far too early for it to cause any real impacts and far too soon for it to be safe from external forces.
Of course that probably isn't it. I dunno, something really does seem odd about this.
