OpenAI shut down Sora six months after launch. The numbers tell the whole story: $5 billion in annual compute costs, $2.1 million in lifetime revenue, a deepfake crisis no guardrail could contain, and an IPO clock that made

shutting it down the only rational move.

Juan and Kate break down the full collapse — the Disney deal that evaporated before a single dollar changed hands, the celebrity lawsuits, the SAG-AFTRA pushback, and why OpenAI's only clean exit was to shut it all down before going public.

👉 Was Disney lucky, or just smart enough not to have paid yet?

Hosted by Juan Faisal and Kate Cook. Slop World Podcast covers AI news with receipts — fact-checking Big Tech's claims and following the money on the stories everyone's hyping but nobody's verifying.

New episodes every week.

Chapters:

00:00 OpenAI Shut Down Sora Six Months After Launch

01:07 What Sora Actually Was

02:35 Was Sora Ever About Entertainment or Just Data?

03:07 The Compute Crisis: $5 Billion a Year

04:10 The Deepfake Problem OpenAI Couldn't Control

04:47 Brian Cranston and SAG-AFTRA Pushed Back

06:04 Sora Made $2.1 Million. OpenAI Spent $5 Billion.

06:15 Why OpenAI Needed to Clean House Before the IPO

08:01 Disney's Billion-Dollar Bet on a Dead Product

09:48 Disney's New CEO Inherited a Deal He Never Liked

11:06 We Called This — Here Are the Receipts

13:15 OpenAI's Only Way Out Is Government Contracts