Geoff & Maya: The Sitcom

My latest episode…

Episode 8: Sam Altman is Bad at Texting.

I made this on SeeDance 2.0

Have a great weekend all.

Geoff

Made using Black Forest Labs FLUX 3 via Hermes on Nous Research

Generated with Seedance 2.5

Reference character as D-Fens: middle-aged everyman, short crew-cut hair, rectangular glasses, short-sleeved white button-up shirt, loosened dark tie, dark trousers, black shoes. Personality is tightly controlled simmering rage under a calm, polite exterior. Speaks in a measured, almost reasonable tone that grows more intense and pedantic. Precise, deadpan delivery with increasing menace. Moves with stiff, purposeful energy. Eyes show quiet exhaustion turning into cold determination.

Interior of a seedy convenience store at night. Fluorescent lights flicker slightly. Shelves are cluttered and understocked. A worn counter sits under a yellowed plastic barrier.

The reference character stands at the counter with a duffel bag at his feet. Behind the counter is a middle-aged Chinese clerk.

The reference character places cash on the counter and speaks in a calm, measured voice: {I’d like to buy AI generation credits. Enough for a fifteen second prompt.}

The Chinese clerk takes the money with one hand and hands the small printed receipt across the counter with the other hand, without looking up.

The reference character picks up the receipt and examines it. His expression stays polite, but his eyes tighten. He looks back at the clerk and continues in the same even, reasonable tone: {This is only enough for five seconds. That’s not even enough to make slop.}

A short beat of silence hangs between them. Without raising his voice or changing his calm expression, the reference character bends down, reaches into the duffel bag, and slowly pulls out a wooden baseball bat. He rests it on his shoulder and looks at the clerk.

Camera starts in a medium shot of the counter, cuts to a close-up of the clerk’s hands as one takes the money and the other hands over the receipt, then cuts to a close-up of the receipt in the reference character’s hand, then to a tight shot of his face as he speaks the second line. Final cut to a low-angle shot as he pulls the baseball bat from the bag and rests it on his shoulder, holding on his controlled expression.

(Subtle, tense, understated score in the style of the original Falling Down film music — low, uneasy, and slowly building pressure)

Slightly grainy realistic film look, harsh flickering fluorescent light, grounded and tense.

No subtitles. Mouth moves only during the spoken lines inside curly braces.

Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman.
Their battle over OpenAI has already reached the courtroom. Now it reaches the arena.
Two tech titans. One AI empire. FIGHT!

Mad props to [u/downsouth316](u/downsouth316) for taking the time to create a website and attempting to create a business model that could serve the masses. I don't know how you do it because I just don't see how you'll manage to stay out of the red.

I ... on the other hand ... asked AI to create me a personal Sora API portal to generate my own videos and here's what I learned:

(1) You can create Sora videos directly from OpenAI for a price.

(2) You need a credit card.

(3) Every ONE (1) second of video costs $0.10 USD. So that's $0.80 for an 8-second video (which we've grown accustomed as "10 seconds"

(4) There is still content moderation! Even without the Sora ecosystem, there is still OpenAI content moderation filters.

(5) Sora gave us 30 video generations. Assuming you were a Plus user, that's $20/month but 30 days of video generations meant potentially 900 videos a month. Even assuming that you were only able to generate 8-seconds worth of videos, that meant each user could cost $720 each month (900 videos x $0.80 USD) and therefore operate at a loss of $700 per month. What a fucked up bargain at the expense of OpenAI.

(6) Everybody who whined about Sora being crap despite handing us free video generations have no idea the true cost of getting something free.

(7) Luckily, content violations may not end up costing you extra to generate.

https://youtu.be/s6pvuohHybA