Openai's new video tool, Sora 2, is a cultural touchstone or even more AI slop, depending on who you ask.
Openai's early investor, billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, made his thoughts clear in a Saturday X post.
“Let the viewers of this 'slop' judge it, not ivory tower ruddit snooty critics or defensive creative,” he wrote. He also called critics “tunnel vision creative.”
Released earlier this week, the SORA 2 app allows users to create short AI videos using text prompts and images. Users can also scan faces and voices and insert them into the video.
Since its launch, the tool has been popular at the same time, shooting at the top of Apple's App Store and ridden as “brain rot” or “AI slop.”
Khosla says that negative reactions are shortsighted.
“This is the first reaction to digital music from the 90s and digital photography from the 2000s,” he wrote, adding:
While many users enjoy making AI videos for friends and family, Sora is a copyright minefield and is currently one of the best deepfake tools on the market.
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As Katie Notopoulos of Business Insider wrote earlier this week, “The backstory of all this wonder is also a scary part.”
“This is the first time I've felt AI approaching imitating real life. So watching these Sora videos can be tough to tell you what's real and what's fake,” she writes.
Sora also raised her eyebrows in Hollywood.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that Sam Altman's company advised Studios and Talent Agencies that the Right must opt-out to prevent copyrighted material from appearing in videos created by Sora.
However, Altman appears to have returned this policy in a blog post Friday, pledging to use the right property to manage more material.
“We have more control over character generation, similar to portrait generative models, but we have more control over character generation,” he writes.
