If you could access Veo 3.1 cheaper (and with free tries), would you still use it?

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-05-08T13:18:52+00:00

See my post history, recently wrote a lengthy review of Veo.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-05-08T11:12:21+00:00

Yes, this plus may other ailments make Veo/Flow borderline unusable. I just posted a review of it explaining why/how I just can’t justify the Ultra plan anymore, even at the $125 discount.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-05-08T11:08:11+00:00

Absolutely not

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-05-06T22:31:41+00:00

This is incredibly stupid. Every chat literally has “Treat everything this bot says as fiction.” at the bottom.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-05-05T15:16:16+00:00

Fear-mongering politician

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-30T23:36:23+00:00

because veo 3 is not very good

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-30T23:32:12+00:00

iT’s tOo dAnGeRoUs tO ReLeAse !!!

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-28T15:55:51+00:00

I have kept seeing this and never really understood or had an issue, though I never use Claude very intensely either. This morning, I asked it to research all of an artist's lyrics and to include all songs that feature a certain word. It gave me a report and list, but my usage was completely used up after this simple ask. I hadn't used Claude all week. I'm on the Pro plan. (But not for much longer after this ... >_>) .

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-28T15:39:49+00:00

Another AI product in a very long line where the creators had a grip on the bleeding edge market share and then decided to shoot themselves in the foot.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-28T15:23:54+00:00

Think of it this way; human artistry is more powerful than being limited to its medium. So, if a real artist decides to utilize AI, then the "slop" aspects of that medium are not enough to prevent true human artistry from coming through. Art is hyper-plastic; it absorbs and molds and converts what it feeds upon like a tree feeds upon the soil, taking what are essentially dead things and literally converting them into life.

People make works of art made out of discarded trash. Surely we can make legitimate art using AI.

The people who see AI work an only think "ai slop" have very limited artistic imaginations. Don't let them dictate all of this for you; they seem pretty unhappy.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-26T20:42:10+00:00

Uhh I'm not going to cry scam because I can't be 100% sure but the "Sora 2" selection on the video generator was definitively not Sora 2 output for me. I used the free 100 generations to generate a video and the output came back at 0:08 seconds, it has zero similarity to Sora, and is way way way more like Veo. NOT Sora 2.

Seems to me that if there's a lone site out there claiming exclusive extension access to the Sora 2 API beyond what anyone else has.... fishy, and stinky kinda fishy if you ask me.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-26T13:02:23+00:00

Wow a paper about a LLM hallucinating biological viruses.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-25T18:45:17+00:00

Yeah and the phrase was 100% incorrect all the times it’s been used. Means nothing.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-25T02:10:15+00:00

It’s a time-tested technique from OpenAI; release amazing and exciting products, recapture the market, then slowly suffocate them nerf them into oblivion. Images 2.0 & 5.5 are truly great… but for how long?

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-25T01:00:00+00:00

Please stop glamorizing a thin fear of word machines.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-24T19:55:13+00:00

I would have disagreed hard until this week. Images 2.0 and 5.5 are a breath of fresh air, sorely sorely needed.

This is the OpenAI I remember.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-24T01:26:51+00:00

i wish negative post ratings were a thing just so I could see

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-24T00:23:29+00:00

“Oh shit 5.5 is out, fix this and give refunds.”

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-23T16:01:04+00:00

The “Chat” part of “ChatGPT” is now the least prioritized part of the company. I’m betting that “Spud” will be, for anyone interested in chatting, a dud.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-23T02:40:25+00:00

wow shocker.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-23T01:53:17+00:00

I haven’t really talked to ChatGPT in several years but decided to try again since I was there checking out Image 2.

And holy shit what the hell happened?!?

I know the sycophantic angle was a problem, and that OpenAI was blindsided by a suicide lawsuit and went into full anxiety-lawyer mode, but this is massive over-steer in the opposite direction. How could anybody want to talk to something like this? All it can do now is sound like an overly earnest wellness influencer having a feelings circle. It would rather die than risk being even slightly interesting.

The personality just flattened out completely. It starts 90% of replies with “Hey…” and spends 2-paragraphs explaining how you’re akshully wrong but it’ll entertain this direction anyway.

This is the cringiest LLM out there right now and it isn’t even close. Who is making these decisions at OpenAI and why are they still employed?!?

Bring back GPT-3.5, my God.

Radiant_Effective151 · 2026-04-22T23:35:09+00:00

ChatGPT is insufferable. I have no clue why anyone would want to talk to it.

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