alt Hacker NewsI spend way too much time on short videos on Instagram and TikTok. I've got Sora and I've tried a bunch of times and I'm just baffled by its success so far.
First of all I almost never use these video services with the sound on. I know I'm not the only one, because many services have captions on by default. Sora doesn't seem to have a solution for this yet.
Second, I have almost no desire to see videos with @Sama cameos. I get served a bunch of them every time. Along with MLK, Lincoln, Kennedy etc. @Sama isn't funny to me, and raping the likenesses of some of those figures doesn't really work for me.
Third, there's not enough creativity and range in the videos. I see way too many of the same videos over and over and over. The riffs on the 1980s/90s TV commercial with the kid opening the sucky Christmas present. Ok, maybe there's a small iota of humor once or twice, but not enough to sustain endless remixes of the same thing.
I also hate just about all Jim Carrey films (except maybe the Truman Show) but many other people seem to love them. Perhaps Sora just isn't for me.
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It's an MVP with very little creative diversity. But I like the concept of being able to write "change the background to the inside of a circus tent" or "replace the hat with a fedora" and a minute later my own spin is added as a "remix"
> I also hate just about all Jim Carrey films (except maybe the Truman Show) but many other people seem to love them. Perhaps Sora just isn't for me.
What do you think about Cable Guy? It is essentially a somewhat social realist movie about the total nightmare of having a typical Jim Carrey character in your life. You might like it.