CHARACHTER.AI FILES FOR BANKRUPTCY THE FIRST DOMINO HAS FALLENhttps://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/characterai-files-bankruptcy-agrees-sell-some-assets-disney-20-million-2026-10-13/
>>110052905who?
>>110052905Aww, that's a shame. I've derived a surprising amount of joy watching niche YT channels talking to "themselves", especially when both go spastic and start flaming each other.
>>110052905Good, let's see the bigger dominos fall and then it'll be good.
>the toy company noam shazeer set up to force google to hire him back for a billion dollars has explodedat least noam got his bag
This isn't exactly a surprise, there's no market for AI roleplay you can't goon to and the lead got poached by google.
>>110052905Traditional creative companies can't compete with AI slop
>>110053034>stock photos>creative
>>110052905>files for bankruptcyThey were a fucking financial company?!Someone thought this was a fucking business model?!?!?!?!
>>110053041Don't they have archives of historical photos as well?
When will OpenAI and Anthropic become profitable?
>>110053062they just own the rights and someone else will buy them if getty goes completely under
>>110052905google hired all the talent away in 2024, what was left was just a shell that lawyers can fuck with
>>110054545A startup that favors profits over growth is a startup doomed to failure. They should be spending ever single dollar of their investment money on growth instead of profits. A startup that's in the green is being mismanaged. This is the strategy for every single startup, ever.
>>110052907another vibecoded service.
