Top AI Creator Cosmic Skye on Sora’s Shutdown, AI Cameos, Community, and Life with ME/CFS

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 Intro00:39 Welcome Skye01:15 Sora Shutdown Reactions03:19 Going Public as a AI Cameo07:19 Content Violations & Why Sora Struggled11:07 Skye Club Community12:30 Living With ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)21:04 Popularity Whiskers23:00 Rocket League AI Bots28:15 Vibe Coding With AI29:39 Will AI Replace Humans?33:01 Saving Sora (What If?)35:30 Verifying Real vs Fake Video37:03 Platforms After Sora41:46 What's Next For Skye?47:30 Where To Find Skye