OpenAI has finally released its video generation model Sora! It’s taken them quite awhile to get here but they did it! So that’s good.
The AI video-generation model works similarly to OpenAI’s image-generation AI tool, DALL-E: A user types out a desired scene, and Sora will return a high-definition video clip. Sora can also generate video clips inspired by still images and extend existing videos or fill in missing frames. The Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence startup, which burst into the mainstream last year thanks to the viral popularity of ChatGPT, introduced Sora in February.
It’ll debut to U.S. users as well as to “most countries internationally” later today, according to OpenAI’s YouTube livestream, and the company has “no timeline” yet for launching the tool in Europe and the U.K., as well as some other countries.
OpenAI said users don’t need to pay extra for the tool, which will be included in existing ChatGPT accounts such as Plus and Pro. Employees on the livestream and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman demonstrated features like “Blend” (i.e., joining two scenes together at the user’s direction), as well as the option to make an AI-generated video endlessly repeat.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/09/openai-releases-sora-its-buzzy-ai-video-generation-tool.html
You can access Sora through Sora.com, although currently account creation is not available.
While Sora is currently limited in the length of video it can create, eventually video AI models will be astonishing in their capabilities. Imagine whole movies being made just from a writer’s script. That’s what we’re talking about here. We’re talking about a media revolution.
There will be so many videos clogging up the internet we will not be able to get anything done. We’re going to be overloaded and our brains are just going to check out. Imagine a YouTube where a million different movies per month are added. Literally a million. Can you imagine how screwed we’ll be?
Sora will eventually be a very powerful tool and we as a society are not prepared for that future. We aren’t even prepared for chatbots, what are we supposed to do when some 11 year old makes the next Matrix movie on his Chromebook?
Sora is fun for right now, but won’t end well unless we change our society.