Sora

9 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 7 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 28, 2024 by Dave Morin · across every show →

Everything said about Sora, oldest first

Jun 28, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Dave Morin: Consumer-ready rapid AI video generation is years away
“In order for this to be, you know, something that consumers use to edit a one minute video in a very short time period, like we're talking years before that's going to be real.”
Dave Morin Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 21:27 #53: What We Got Wrong—and Right—in a Year of More or Less · More or Less Podcast
Nov 29, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Brit Morin: The Sora AI leak provoked intense creator backlash
“Sora got leaked, and all these creators and sort of, like, film-adjacent creative people got a look at it and got super pissed.”
Brit Morin Nov 29, 2024 ▶ 24:21 #75: The Rise of the Tech Bro · More or Less Podcast
Oct 3, 2025 negative
Opinion
Dave Morin: OpenAI's obvious social play was group chat, not Sora
“I always assumed that one day I would wake up and I would open ChatGPT and it would ask me to upload my contacts and then I would be able to use ChatGPT with my friends, right? Like the four of us could use ChatGPT and have ChatGPT in the middle of the convers…”
Dave Morin Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 28:09 #119 OpenAI Sora vs. TikTok: Can “AI Entertainment” Fund the Compute Bill? · More or Less Podcast
Oct 3, 2025 bearish
Insight
Sam Lessin: Public prompts prevent creators from building moats on Sora
“Those prompts are all public, Brit. So no one can create a competitive advantage in the content of the prompts. Like if anything, the whole design is then to rip them.”
Sam Lessin Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 24:38 #119 OpenAI Sora vs. TikTok: Can “AI Entertainment” Fund the Compute Bill? · More or Less Podcast
Oct 3, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Sam Lessin: Current LLM applications are not viable standalone businesses
“Like when you back it all out, you're like, none of these are actually good businesses. They're kind of like product and growth shims towards something, but no one can really tell you what that something exactly is, right? Or how it's going to work as a busine…”
Sam Lessin Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 43:06 #119 OpenAI Sora vs. TikTok: Can “AI Entertainment” Fund the Compute Bill? · More or Less Podcast
Oct 3, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Brit Morin: Sam Altman only has 10,000 followers on OpenAI Sora
“Sam Altman only has 10,000 followers right now, which, so it feels like it's like very not viral from a friending perspective.”
Brit Morin Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 6:02 #119 OpenAI Sora vs. TikTok: Can “AI Entertainment” Fund the Compute Bill? · More or Less Podcast
Oct 24, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Brit Morin: OpenAI will improve Sora and regain user engagement
“I bet they add improvements, though, and it gets like another, they get another hook on the line.”
Brit Morin Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 18:05 TPUs Are Winning? Gemini + Anthropic vs NVIDIA, and OpenAI’s Atlas Explained · More or Less Podcast
Oct 24, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: OpenAI's Sora is not going to work
“That, like, that was, like I mean, I understand it's still probably number one in the free app store or something, but, like, it's not gonna work.”
Sam Lessin Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 17:35 TPUs Are Winning? Gemini + Anthropic vs NVIDIA, and OpenAI’s Atlas Explained · More or Less Podcast
Nov 21, 2025 negative
Opinion
Lessin: OpenAI's Sora was a flash in the pan and is dead
“If anything, Sora, I think as we all called, was a flash in the pan and is dead.”
Sam Lessin Nov 21, 2025 ▶ 23:01 Google Just Won AI, TikTok’s “Self-Control Badges”, ChatGPT Enters Group Chats · More or Less Podcast
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