the entire sora chase kinda cost openai twice. on the supply side it bled compute & possibly researcher attention from the frontier. & on perception side, it handed anthropic the moral high ground for free by shipping a consumer deepfake product with a feed at the exact moment the labor displacement discourse peaked which effectively signaled less seriousness in many ways esp for business products/customers. you can see the latter in how dario mentions "the slop we've seen with ai video…