We interview Cosmic Skye, a top-five creator on OpenAI’s Sora video gen AI platform, right before its shutdown. Skye shares disappointment about the early closure, argues Sora had unmatched emotional realism, and explains why she made her AI cameo public with no intended restrictions. We discuss how content violations and the removal of third‑party characters hurt momentum, plus bigger issues like high compute cost, bugs, and a focus on new users over retention on a platform that doomed itself in just a few months.

Skye describes building her community “The Skye Club” on Discord and explains living with ME/CFS, pacing her heart rate, and how Sora enabled content creation from bed.

We also talk about Skye’s Rocket League AI projects, “vibe coding” with GPT/Claude, predictions about AI replacing digital labor this year, verification systems for real video, and what’s next for her community and her digital AI self.

00:00 Intro
00:39 Welcome Skye
01:15 Sora Shutdown Reactions
03:19 Going Public as a AI Cameo
07:19 Content Violations & Why Sora Struggled
11:07 Skye Club Community
12:30 Living With ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)
21:04 Popularity Whiskers
23:00 Rocket League AI Bots
28:15 Vibe Coding With AI
29:39 Will AI Replace Humans?
33:01 Saving Sora (What If?)
35:30 Verifying Real vs Fake Video
37:03 Platforms After Sora
41:46 What's Next For Skye?
47:30 Where To Find Skye