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You know, I kinda relate to the feeling of not wanting look at those outputs if I think of it from a layman's perspective.

I just imagined that instead of math papers, they released 700+ feature length films, and the only way to tell if one of them is any good is to watch it in its entirety.

That feels pretty unappealing to me.

I know it's the same for human made films, so what's the difference right? But those are good enough most of the time that it's a decent bet, and the people that made them had real skin in the game.

Contrast that with something made by a nondeterministic slop machine with no skin in the game where small details can be off in a way that's jarring. Right out the gate I have an aversion to committing that much time to something that very well may waste it.

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That's actually a really interesting thought. Given Sora, and the amount of funding they have, they could have created started their own film festival and dropped 700+ feature length films, had they wanted to go in that direction. But they didn't. Hmm.

From the perspective of "is this just a garbage dump to impress the market?", it's way too easy for investors to figure out 700 films are garbage.



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