Just kidding…we don’t have the $8 million advertising budget it takes to buy a 30-second SuperBowl spot.  But if we did…

After watching the…rather odd SuperBowl ads fly by, I realized a lot of them were made with AI, or AI augmentations.  So I popped over to OpenAI’s Sora app and played with it.

It still feels like it’s not quite ready more than toy use, to be honest.  My prompt was:

A young entrepreneur is working on her green laptop. Behind her is an advanced science fiction civilization.

This was after about a dozen failed attempts with this:

A green-themed room where a young entrepeneur is working on her green laptop. In a floating thought bubble without a tail, she is thinking of an advanced science fiction civilization. She looks up an smiles at the camera.

Note that “thought bubble without a tail“.  Sora was never able to generate a floating thought bubble, even with this prompt.  They all had tails that made it look like the laptop was thinking, or the plant on the desk, or similar.

It also occasionally hallucinated, popping random words or posters on the walls.  Since my Plus subscription only gives me 50 gens per month, these are pretty costly delusions.

Of course, at one point, ChatGPT also seemed to be a toy…

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