SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI goes out of service. Social media app Sorawhich went viral last fall as a place to share short videos generated by artificial intelligence, has caused alarm in Hollywood and elsewhere.
In a short message on social media on Tuesday, OpenAI said it was “saying goodbye to the Sora app” and would soon share information on how users can save what they’ve already created on the app.
“What you did with Sora was important. I know this news is disappointing,” he said.
The company behind ChatGPT released Sora in September in an attempt to garner attention and potentially advertising dollars following short-form videos on TikTok, YouTube or Meta-owned Instagram and Facebook.
but growing advocacy group choiracademics and experts have raised concerns about the dangers of having people create AI videos of just about anything they can type into a prompt, leading to the proliferation of non-consensual images and realistic deepfakes amid a sea of less harmful “AI slop.”
OpenAI was forced to crack down on AI productions featuring celebrities such as Michael Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Mister Rogers doing outlandish things after protests from families and actors’ unions.
Disney, which signed a deal with OpenAI last year to provide its characters to Sora, said in a statement Tuesday that it respects “OpenAI’s decision to exit the video generation business and shift its priorities elsewhere.”
“We are grateful for the constructive collaboration between our teams and what we have learned, and we will continue to engage with our AI platform to find new ways to meet fans where they are, while responsibly embracing new technologies that respect the rights of IP and creators,” Disney said in a statement.
